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

Laszlo Ersek lersek at redhat.com
Thu Mar 21 13:44:43 CET 2013


On 03/21/13 13:30, 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 | 16 ++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/README b/README
> index a87a0ad..c6a2ee4 100644
> --- a/README
> +++ b/README
> @@ -1,9 +1,21 @@
>  This code implements an X86 legacy bios.  It is intended to be
>  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.
> +To build, one should be able to run "make" in the main directory.
>  
> +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 $QEMU_DIR/roms/config.seabios $SEABIOS_DIR/.config
> +
> +(where $QEMU_DIR is the qemu source directory, $SEABIOS_DIR points to the
> +seabios build directory); and then run make in the seabios main directory with
> +this configuration:
> +
> +	make olddefconfig
> +
> +The resulting file "out/bios.bin" contains the processed bios image.
>  
>  Testing of images:

Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek at redhat.com>

(I'll unavoidably test this anyway.)

Thanks for the heads-up again!
Laszlo



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