Re: [Qemu-devel] seabios for qemu 1.5

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

Il 24/04/2013 07:59, Gerd Hoffmann ha scritto:
>   Hi,
> 
>> b44a7be17bdd270ea029a8e2ec0c2e80c6cd0444 virtio-scsi: Pack struct virtio_scsi_{req_cmd,resp_cmd}
>> 5a7730db57ab0715223421e65b54fb50d6fefe5c virtio-scsi: Set _DRIVER_OK flag before scsi target scanning
> 
>> Anthony + Gerd, can we expect an rev to pc-bios/bios.bin soon to pick up
>> these seabios changes for vhost-scsi..?
> 
> I don't feel like placing a seabios git snapshot into qemu.
> 
> I think we should just cherry-pick everything we need for qemu 1.5 into
> the 1.7.2-stable branch, roll out a 1.7.2.2 release and put that into
> qemu 1.5.
> 
> So, what will be needed?
> 
>   (1) The two commits listed above.
>   (2) The patch for the pvpanic device (assuming it gets
>       merged for 1.5).
> 
> Anything else?
> 
> Hard freeze for qemu 1.5 is next Wednesday.

It's just a few patches, so we can do it in -rc1 too.

Paolo

> cheers,
>   Gerd
> 
> PS: For qemu 1.6 (which will hopefully include the acpi table
>     reorganization) we will need a new release from the master
>     branch and thus a bit more careful release planning.
>