[SeaBIOS] [PATCH] README: document which config options to use

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at redhat.com
Thu Mar 21 13:23:17 CET 2013


On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 01:22:33PM +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> On 03/21/13 13:03, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > In the interim of moving ACPI tables out of
> > seabios, developers should get the config from
> > QEMU tree to keep things in sync.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  README | 6 ++++++
> >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/README b/README
> > index a87a0ad..380fc80 100644
> > --- a/README
> > +++ b/README
> > @@ -4,6 +4,12 @@ compiled using standard gnu tools (eg, gas and gcc).
> >  To build, one should be able to run "make" in the main directory.  The
> >  resulting file "out/bios.bin" contains the processed bios image.
> >  
> > +QEMU might only need a part of the BIOS binary, and different QEMU versions
> > +might need different seabios configurations to work well.  To build
> > +a bios for qemu, one needs to copy the config file from qemu source tree:
> > +	cp roms/config.seabios seabios/.config
> > +and then run make with this configuration:
> > +	make -C seabios olddefconfig
> 
> The "seabios" word in the commands refers to whichever directory the
> seabios project has been cloned / checked out / extracted, doesn't it?
> For a second the cp command looked as if I should be able to find a
> seabios subdir (beside the roms subdir) in qemu. What about
> 
> > +	cp roms/config.seabios $SEABIOS_DIR/.config
> 
> > +	make -C $SEABIOS_DIR olddefconfig
> 
> (BTW, good to know! :))
> 
> Thanks
> Laszlo

Okay, I'll send v2.




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