Re: Backport of SeaVgaBios binary from upstream to our branch

[Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 04:54:50PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-06-12 at 16:37 +0100, Anthony PERARD wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > The recent merge of QEMU 2.0 into our qemu-xen tree make the FreeBSD
> > test of osstest fail. This is related to a change of vgabios upstream,
> > they have switch from lgplvgabios to seavgabios.
> 
> Just to clarify, we consume seavgabios via the qemu tree and not our own
> seabios.git build (which just gets us the BIOS proper), correct?

Yes, that correct.

> > 
> > First commit to fail the test:
> >   6eefccc0bb9c34051b1e21880fc3a1c1c8686edd
> >   roms: update vgabios binaries
> >   This also switches from lgplvgabios to seavgabios.
> > 
> > But a more recent version of seavgabios fix the issue. So backporting it
> > from upstream would fix the issue. The two commits to cherry-pick:
> > db76ec6291df8a03c2cc82ea1249049383cca392  seabios: update to 1.7.5-rc1
> > 3257fc8383b13856e6719d1390655ce24bafd071  seabios: update to 1.7.5 final
> > 
> > I've tested these change using osstest on FreeBSD and Windows XP.
> > (test-amd64-i386-freebsd10-amd64 and test-amd64-amd64-xl-qemuu-winxpsp3)
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> 
> 

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Anthony PERARD