[SeaBIOS] Commit 46ee83 changes guest fingerprint unconditionally

Kevin O'Connor kevin at koconnor.net
Thu Aug 23 06:14:24 CEST 2012


On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 01:29:57PM -0500, anthony at codemonkey.ws wrote:
> 
>  commit 46ee8349d22d11ec4b8609c5bf14db9409eef974
>  Author: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel at redhat.com>
>  Date:   Thu Jun 7 10:34:31 2012 +0200
> 
>     update bios date
[...]
> Guest fingerprint changed for pc-1.0!
> 
> Can we make the bios date set from fw_cfg?  We really can't change the
> SMBIOS information unconditionally like this.

It was thought this change would be non-invasive.  If it's going to
cause a problem, we can revert the change and figure out an
alternative.  How problematic is it to change the date?

-Kevin



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