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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Ensure PCIR is aligned to 4 bytes
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To: Brad Smith <brad@comstyle.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Bo Yang <BoYang@suse.com>, Andreas =?ISO-8859-1?Q?F=E4rber?= <afaerber@suse.de>, Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>, Sebastian Herbszt <herbszt@gmx.de>

On So, 2013-11-24 at 15:35 -0500, Brad Smith wrote:
> On 11/10/13 2:31 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > On Do, 2013-10-10 at 21:17 +0200, Sebastian Herbszt wrote:
> >> Andreas F=C3=A4rber wrote:
> >>> Same for http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/273758/ - vgabios seems =
to
> >>> be falling through the cracks...
> >>>
> >>> Andreas
> >>>
> >>
> >> Is this patch still required?
> >> I was under the impression that no patch is needed for Win 8 after
> >> reading the thread on SeaBIOS list.
> >
> > There are two implementations, the lgpl vgabios and the seavgabios.  =
The
> > prebuild roms in the qemu git repo are lgpl vgabios roms.  Probably I=
'll
> > go switch to seavgabios with the next major (non-stable-branch) seabi=
os
> > update.
>=20
> When will that switch happen? Looking at the archive this proposal for=20
> switching to SeaVGABIOS has already been dragging on for a long time as=
=20
> it is.

When the next seabios release is out, hopefully early in the 1.8 devel
cycle.

cheers,
  Gerd