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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.0.0-rc0 is now available
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To: Andreas =?ISO-8859-1?Q?F=E4rber?= <afaerber@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, "seabios@seabios.org" <seabios@seabios.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>, Bruce Rogers <brogers@suse.com>

On Mo, 2014-03-17 at 19:30 +0100, Andreas F=C3=A4rber wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> Am 14.03.2014 04:19, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> > On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of =
the
> > first release candidate for the QEMU 2.0 release.  This release is me=
ant
> > for testing purposes and should not be used in a production environme=
nt.
> >=20
> > http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-2.0.0-rc0.tar.bz2
>=20
> I've run into an issue with the SeaBIOS submodule included in the QEMU
> tarball: The SeaBIOS scripts/buildversion.sh script looks for a .git
> directory or file and, if absent, goes on to look for a .version file,
> neither of which the QEMU tarball ships. That means it will fall back t=
o
> "?" as version, whereas the binary blob contributed by Gerd displays
> "rel-1.7.4-0-g96917a8".

I build them from a git checkout, where it works as .git is present.

> Should our tarball workflow include generating a roms/seabios/.version
> file based on git-describe in that directory to fix this mismatch?

Makes sense.

cheers,
  Gerd