[SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [PULL] Update seabios to 1.6.3.2

[Anthony Liguori]

On 03/12/2012 09:48 AM, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Hi Gerd,
>
> Am 12.03.2012 14:08, schrieb Gerd Hoffmann:
>> New seabios release on the 1.6.3 stable branch -- lets update.
>> Also add a Makefile + script to simplify seabios updating.
>
> That version was released yesterday and I don't see any PATCHes yet...
> Care to share your build script first before you send a PULL?
> You also forgot to mention where to pull from. ;)
>
> No objection to updating though.

I happen to be looking to do this myself, but upon running SeaBIOS through some 
testing, I ran into:

/home/anthony/build/qemu/x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -kernel 
bin/vmlinuz-3.0 -initrd .tmp-3349/initramfs-3349.img.gz -append console=ttyS0 
seed=38721 -drive file=.tmp-3349/disk-3349.img,if=none,snapshot=on,id=hd0 
-device virtio-balloon-pci,addr=03.0 -device virtio-blk-pci,addr=04.0,drive=hd0 
-nographic -nodefconfig -m 1G -no-reboot -no-hpet -device virtio-serial -chardev 
socket,path=.tmp-3349/channel-3349.sock,id=channel0,server,nowait -device 
virtserialport,chardev=channel0,name=org.libguestfs.channel.0 -nodefaults 
-serial stdio -enable-kvm -pidfile .tmp-3349/pidfile-3349.pid -qmp 
unix:.tmp-3349/qmpsock-3349.sock,server,nowait
KVM internal error. Suberror: 1
emulation failure
EAX=0000aa55 EBX=00000000 ECX=00000000 EDX=00000000
ESI=00000000 EDI=00000000 EBP=00000000 ESP=00006f50
EIP=0000003c EFL=00010202 [-------] CPL=0 II=0 A20=1 SMM=0 HLT=0
ES =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00009300
CS =c300 000c3000 0000ffff 00009b00
SS =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00009300
DS =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00009300
FS =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00009300
GS =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00009300
LDT=0000 00000000 0000ffff 00008200
TR =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00008b00
GDT=     000fd3a8 00000037
IDT=     00000000 000003ff
CR0=00000010 CR2=00000000 CR3=00000000 CR4=00000000
DR0=0000000000000000 DR1=0000000000000000 DR2=0000000000000000 DR3=0000000000000000
DR6=00000000ffff0ff0 DR7=0000000000000400
EFER=0000000000000000
Code=00 00 7c 02 81 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 3c 00 00 00 00 00 <8c> c8 8e d8 
fa fc e9 91 00 b8 16 00 ba 10 05 ef ba 11 05 ec 66 c1 e0 08 ec 66 c1 e0 08 ec
^Cqemu: terminating on signal 2

How extensively did you test the new seabios changes and are you able to recreate?

My GCC is:

gcc version 4.6.1 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.1-9ubuntu3)

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> Andreas
>
>> Gerd Hoffmann (2):
>>    Add seabios build scripts to roms/
>>    Update seabios to 1.6.3.2
>>
>>   pc-bios/bios.bin          |  Bin 131072 ->  131072 bytes
>>   roms/Makefile             |   10 ++++++++++
>>   roms/config.seabios       |    1 +
>>   roms/configure-seabios.sh |    5 +++++
>>   roms/seabios              |    2 +-
>>   5 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>   create mode 100644 roms/Makefile
>>   create mode 100644 roms/config.seabios
>>   create mode 100755 roms/configure-seabios.sh
>