[SeaBIOS] [PATCHv2 0/6] Improved multi-platform support

[Ian Campbell]

On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 12:14 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 12:05 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > 
> > Hrm, this should either be provided by the Xen package (or maybe there
> > is a separate xen-qemu package?) or the Xen package should have been
> > patched to use the system qemu from /usr/bin. This is probably a
> > casualty of the upstream qemu-xen stuff being non-default in 4.2.x.
> > 
> > Does your /usr/bin/qemu-system-{i386,x86_64} link against any Xen
> > libraries? In which case you could try
> > device_model_override="/path/to/it"
> 
> Aha, the Fedora package has a 'qemu-xen.tradonly.patch' which comments
> out the addition of qemu-xen-dir to SUBDIRS-$(CONFIG_IOEMU) in
> tools/Makefile. Will there have been a *reason* they did that, or if I
> build one and put it in the right place should it JustWork™? The patch
> arrived in the package in a large commit with the comment 'Update to
> xen-4.2.0' and no further explanation.

I think it should JustWork. I expect they disabled it either because
they intended to eventually use /usr/bin/qemu-foo instead or maybe just
as an expedient way of getting the 4.2 package together and because it
is a non-default option in 4.2 (and something of a "preview" feature at
that).

> So much for it being easier to use the distro's toolsets with minimal
> modification... :)

Yers :-/

> I have to run now, but will be back and prod at this a little more
> later.

OK, thanks,

Ian.

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