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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH 0/5] bios: >4G updates
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:17:46 +0200
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Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>,
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Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>
>> I'd like the seabios repository to be a git submodule, so we don't have
>> to rewrite stuff.  So I'll experiment a bit with git submodules and pull
>> it in soon.
>>
>
> Are you willing to do a flag day and switch from the Bochs BIOS to
> seabios and deal with the regressions?  If so, we should coordinate
> this and do the same thing in QEMU.

I was thinking, side-by-side for a couple of weeks to let issues be
worked out, then switch the default to SeaBIOS until the remaining bugs
are killed, then remove the bochs bios.

-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.