[SeaBIOS] Bug#678042: seabios - Please enable Xen support

Bastian Blank waldi at debian.org
Mon Jul 2 12:10:35 CEST 2012


On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 01:47:42PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> So, what's the bottom line of all this discussion?  Please excuse
> me but I don't understand what it is all about...  And it looks
> like with at least stock 1.7 version of seabios it isn't a good
> idea to make universal image (with xen support included), right?

I see not why. Two things are needed to get working Xen support:
- Enable XEN
- Don't try to use SMM on Xen.

I have some windows test systems running with this patched seabios.

The debug i/o port is a different story and needs to be
addressed with acceptance by all emulation stuff.

Bastian

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