[SeaBIOS] [ANNOUNCE] SeaBIOS 1.6.3

Kevin O'Connor kevin at koconnor.net
Wed Oct 5 03:42:24 CEST 2011


The 1.6.3 version of SeaBIOS is now ready.  For more information on
the release, please see:

http://seabios.org/Releases


New in this release:

* Initial support for Xen
* PCI init (on emulators) uses a two-phase initialization
* Fixes for AHCI so it can work on real hardware.  AHCI is now enabled by default.
* Bootsplash support for BMP files
* Several configuration options can now be configured at runtime via CBFS files
(eg, "etc/boot-menu-wait")
* PCI device scan is cached during POST phase
* Several bug fixes


For information on obtaining SeaBIOS, please see:

http://seabios.org/Download

-Kevin



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