[SeaBIOS] [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Simultaneous multi-platform support

Kevin O'Connor kevin at koconnor.net
Wed Feb 13 03:27:03 CET 2013


On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:42:41AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-02-11 at 12:26 +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > On 02/11/13 12:18, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > > Then add a CONFIG_QEMU_DRIVERS menu where we put all virtual
> > hardware
> > > drivers in.  So when building for real hardware you'll just say 'n'
> > > there and all virtual drivers will be skipped.
> > 
> > Ah, just saw your new series adds CONFIG_QEMU_HARDWARE for that,
> > great.
> 
> And at (http://,) git://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/seabios.git I've
> also made Xen one of the top-level choices, which you also mentioned.

I'm fine with that change, but I'm not sure how to communicate that to
the distro maintainers.  I wouldn't want them to try and build the
next version of xen and find it mysterously failing.

BTW, I did pull a bunch of other patches from your tree into the
seabios repo.

-Kevin



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