[SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] seabios for qemu 1.5

Amos Kong akong at redhat.com
Wed Apr 24 08:11:26 CEST 2013


On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 07:59:36AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
> > b44a7be17bdd270ea029a8e2ec0c2e80c6cd0444 virtio-scsi: Pack struct virtio_scsi_{req_cmd,resp_cmd}
> > 5a7730db57ab0715223421e65b54fb50d6fefe5c virtio-scsi: Set _DRIVER_OK flag before scsi target scanning
> 
> > Anthony + Gerd, can we expect an rev to pc-bios/bios.bin soon to pick up
> > these seabios changes for vhost-scsi..?
> 
> I don't feel like placing a seabios git snapshot into qemu.
> 
> I think we should just cherry-pick everything we need for qemu 1.5 into
> the 1.7.2-stable branch, roll out a 1.7.2.2 release and put that into
> qemu 1.5.
> 
> So, what will be needed?
> 
>   (1) The two commits listed above.
>   (2) The patch for the pvpanic device (assuming it gets
>       merged for 1.5).
> 
> Anything else?

Hi Gerd,

This bug fix is needed:

| commit 11a7234491cb2a027b0fa5e82af38a3e78b44c80
| Author: Kevin O'Connor <kevin at koconnor.net>
| Date:   Tue Mar 5 17:52:21 2013 +0800
| 
|     Cache boot-fail-wait to avoid romfile access after POST.
| 
|     Memory allocated with malloc_tmp() can't be used after the POST phase.
|     So, access boot-fail-wait in post phase and store it for the boot
|     phase to use.  This fixes the regression introduced by commit
|     59d6ca52.


> Hard freeze for qemu 1.5 is next Wednesday.
> 
> cheers,
>   Gerd
> 
> PS: For qemu 1.6 (which will hopefully include the acpi table
>     reorganization) we will need a new release from the master
>     branch and thus a bit more careful release planning.
> 

-- 
			Amos.



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