[SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] Re : Regression: more 0.12 regression (SeaBIOS related?)

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 11:28:25AM -0300, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 14:09:05 +0000
> "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 09:01:12AM -0500, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> > > On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 10:56:01AM -0300, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 06:31:31 -0800 (PST)
> > > > Alain Ribière <alain_ribiere at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > I ran qemu 1.0.1 and the latest SeaBIOS (from the git) with the following options :
> > > > 
> > > > What's the git HEAD?
> > > > 
> > > > Coincidentally, I was playing with MS-DOS 6.22 yesterday and hit an issue right
> > > > during bootup. After debugging a bit, I found out that latest seabios fixes the
> > > > problem but couldn't identify the actual commit.
> > > > 
> > > > The git HEAD of my seabios repo is c5c488f46b.
> > > 
> > > Daniel reported a similar error.  I haven't had a chance to look at it
> > > yet.
> > 
> > This was the issue where QEMU's binary build of Seabios was broken.
> > Rebuilding the exact same Seabios changeset from source works fine.
> 
> Are you running qemu 1.0 or latest from git?

Using GIT

> qemu 1.0 has seabios from commit 8e301472e324, I don't get the problem with
> this one. But latest qemu from git has seabios 1.6.3.1, it's with that
> version that I get my problem.

That's the same I found - simply rebuilding 1.6.3.1 gives a binary that
works fine.

> Using latest seabios makes it go away, didn't try re-building 1.6.3.1 though.


Daniel
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