From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Tokarev Subject: Re: pc-bios/bios.bin - where it comes from? Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:17:52 +0300 Message-ID: <4B90CC40.1080008@msgid.tls.msk.ru> References: <4B903859.7070808@msgid.tls.msk.ru> <4B907F83.3060007@codemonkey.ws> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: KVM list , "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" , Dustin Kirkland To: Anthony Liguori Return-path: Received: from isrv.corpit.ru ([81.13.33.159]:48576 "EHLO isrv.corpit.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750745Ab0CEJRz (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Mar 2010 04:17:55 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4B907F83.3060007@codemonkey.ws> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 03/04/2010 04:46 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote: >> Hello. >> >> There are a few bugs filed about an.. interesting >> behavour. For example: >> >> http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm@vger.kernel.org/msg29834.html >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/513273 >> [] > pc-bios/bios.bin gets built from roms/seabios. > > We don't ship seabios 0.5.1 in 0.12.3, we ship 0.5.1-stable which is two > commits ahead of 0.5.1. [] > One of the reasons we include a git submodule and the source for the > bios is so that distributors don't have to deal with building the > packages independently. Morale of the story is, just use the source we > ship and don't try to be more clever than that :-) > >> In case it's not clear: I'm testing qemu-kvm-0.12.3; ^^^ >> bios.bin is the same in qemu-0.12.3 and qemu-kvm-0.12.3. The thing is that roms/seabios directory is _empty_ in qemu-KVM-0.12.3.tar.gz. So I can't use the sources you (the qemu-kvm team anyway) ship because there's no shipped sources, so I have to try to be clever and find a way to deal with the issue. But now when you mentioned it and I _finally_ found the bios source in qemu-0.12.3, maybe I'll be even more clever and will patch qemu-kvm with bits missing in it from qemu-0.12.3. Ugly but at least doable. >> BTW, is there any reason preventing updating vgabios >> to 0.6c version - the latest released one? > > There's no compelling improvement in 0.6c and updating vgabios is not > something I'm eager to do unless there's a strong justification. Maybe wider testing in debian and/or ubuntu is a good justification? :) Thanks! /mjt