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

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 05:44:08PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 13:36 +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> > 18.06.2012 23:14, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > > Package: seabios
> > > Version: 1.7.0-1
> > > Severity: wishlist
> > >
> > > Please enable Xen support in seabios. It will be used by the next Xen
> > > release and maybe the version in Wheezy.
> > 
> > Do you know what's the outcome of this?  As far as I remember, it is just
> > a config option, but it is not enabled by default, do you know why?
> 
> I seem to have made it "default n" but I don't recall why. Possibly I
> just didn't realise that people would be building a single SeaBIOS for
> multiple uses -- I expected that folks would build one tailored to their
> specific usecase. Or maybe it's just a hangover from my being used to
> Linux's policy of defaulting things like this to off...

I also don't recall why.

> > 
> > Kevin, can you comment please?

I looked, and it seems harmless to turn it on by default.

-Kevin