[Qemu-devel] qemu freeze, seabios release

[Qemu-devel] qemu freeze, seabios release

[Gerd Hoffmann]

  Hi,

qemu soft freeze for 2.4 is just around the corner, time to think about
the seabios release which should be included there.

A new release from master isn't even planned yet[1], so I think we
should go for a 1.8.2 stable release.  So, if there are any fixes which
should be cherry-picked into stable please speak up now.  So far my list
is pretty short:

  87f848e vga: rework virtio-vga support

cheers,
  Gerd

[1] It probably makes sense to plan once the tpm support merge
    is complete.

Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] qemu freeze, seabios release

[Laszlo Ersek]

On 06/11/15 09:42, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
> qemu soft freeze for 2.4 is just around the corner, time to think about
> the seabios release which should be included there.
> 
> A new release from master isn't even planned yet[1], so I think we
> should go for a 1.8.2 stable release.  So, if there are any fixes which
> should be cherry-picked into stable please speak up now.  So far my list
> is pretty short:
> 
>   87f848e vga: rework virtio-vga support
> 
> cheers,
>   Gerd
> 
> [1] It probably makes sense to plan once the tpm support merge
>     is complete.

For the next master release: we've been working with Marcel on properly
formatting OFW devpaths in QEMU, for the "bootorder" fw_cfg file, for
booting off devices behind a PXB. Patches are on qemu-devel (meaning
they should be okay for 2.4). I have patches for OVMF and Marcel is
looking into SeaBIOS. So, I think support for these devpaths too should
be included in the next master release of SeaBIOS.

Thanks
Laszlo

Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] qemu freeze, seabios release

[Gerd Hoffmann]

  Hi,

> should be cherry-picked into stable please speak up now.  So far my list
> is pretty short:

Looked through the log.  The leal instruction and ahci max-ports fixes
are worth having too I think.  So I have this list now:

nilsson kraxel ~/projects/seabios (1.8-stable)# git log --oneline rel-1.8.1..
eb3677a vga: rework virtio-vga support
33d4d4f build: Support "make VERSION=xyz" to override the default build version
dbd4a87 ahci: Ignore max_ports.
42f6019 vgabios: Emulate "leal" instruction
c5fa0c5 vgabios: Add config option for assembler fixups

cheers,
  Gerd

Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] qemu freeze, seabios release

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 09:00:19AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
> > should be cherry-picked into stable please speak up now.  So far my list
> > is pretty short:
> 
> Looked through the log.  The leal instruction and ahci max-ports fixes
> are worth having too I think.  So I have this list now:
> 
> nilsson kraxel ~/projects/seabios (1.8-stable)# git log --oneline rel-1.8.1..
> eb3677a vga: rework virtio-vga support
> 33d4d4f build: Support "make VERSION=xyz" to override the default build version
> dbd4a87 ahci: Ignore max_ports.
> 42f6019 vgabios: Emulate "leal" instruction
> c5fa0c5 vgabios: Add config option for assembler fixups

I think "smm: ignore bits 16,18-31 of SMM revision ID" (92f9b918)
should also be considered.

The release plan sounds good to me.

-Kevin

Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] qemu freeze, seabios release

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On Fr, 2015-06-12 at 16:10 -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 09:00:19AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> >   Hi,
> > 
> > > should be cherry-picked into stable please speak up now.  So far my list
> > > is pretty short:
> > 
> > Looked through the log.  The leal instruction and ahci max-ports fixes
> > are worth having too I think.  So I have this list now:
> > 
> > nilsson kraxel ~/projects/seabios (1.8-stable)# git log --oneline rel-1.8.1..
> > eb3677a vga: rework virtio-vga support
> > 33d4d4f build: Support "make VERSION=xyz" to override the default build version
> > dbd4a87 ahci: Ignore max_ports.
> > 42f6019 vgabios: Emulate "leal" instruction
> > c5fa0c5 vgabios: Add config option for assembler fixups
> 
> I think "smm: ignore bits 16,18-31 of SMM revision ID" (92f9b918)
> should also be considered.

Makes sense indeed, picked it up.
Updated public 1.8-stable branch.
I plan to tag 1.8.2 tomorrow.

cheers,
  Gerd

Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] qemu freeze, seabios release

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 03:01:54PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On Fr, 2015-06-12 at 16:10 -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 09:00:19AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > >   Hi,
> > > 
> > > > should be cherry-picked into stable please speak up now.  So far my list
> > > > is pretty short:
> > > 
> > > Looked through the log.  The leal instruction and ahci max-ports fixes
> > > are worth having too I think.  So I have this list now:
> > > 
> > > nilsson kraxel ~/projects/seabios (1.8-stable)# git log --oneline rel-1.8.1..
> > > eb3677a vga: rework virtio-vga support
> > > 33d4d4f build: Support "make VERSION=xyz" to override the default build version
> > > dbd4a87 ahci: Ignore max_ports.
> > > 42f6019 vgabios: Emulate "leal" instruction
> > > c5fa0c5 vgabios: Add config option for assembler fixups
> > 
> > I think "smm: ignore bits 16,18-31 of SMM revision ID" (92f9b918)
> > should also be considered.
> 
> Makes sense indeed, picked it up.
> Updated public 1.8-stable branch.
> I plan to tag 1.8.2 tomorrow.

I looked a little further.  If 799b20b0 is picked up then I think the
fix in f24eb2f8 (just pushed) makes sense as well.  Also, 18449686
looks like a straight forward bug fix.

What do you think about 251e2638 + 3b9b9f24 ?  These work around the
Windows Vista (and possibly later) hangs in the vgabios with old
16-bit apps (the "skifree" problem).

-Kevin

Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] qemu freeze, seabios release

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On Mo, 2015-06-15 at 10:36 -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 03:01:54PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > On Fr, 2015-06-12 at 16:10 -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 09:00:19AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > > >   Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > > should be cherry-picked into stable please speak up now.  So far my list
> > > > > is pretty short:
> > > > 
> > > > Looked through the log.  The leal instruction and ahci max-ports fixes
> > > > are worth having too I think.  So I have this list now:
> > > > 
> > > > nilsson kraxel ~/projects/seabios (1.8-stable)# git log --oneline rel-1.8.1..
> > > > eb3677a vga: rework virtio-vga support
> > > > 33d4d4f build: Support "make VERSION=xyz" to override the default build version
> > > > dbd4a87 ahci: Ignore max_ports.
> > > > 42f6019 vgabios: Emulate "leal" instruction
> > > > c5fa0c5 vgabios: Add config option for assembler fixups
> > > 
> > > I think "smm: ignore bits 16,18-31 of SMM revision ID" (92f9b918)
> > > should also be considered.
> > 
> > Makes sense indeed, picked it up.
> > Updated public 1.8-stable branch.
> > I plan to tag 1.8.2 tomorrow.
> 
> I looked a little further.  If 799b20b0 is picked up then I think the
> fix in f24eb2f8 (just pushed) makes sense as well.

Yes. (btw: picked 799b20b0 to make the leal fix apply without
conflicts).

> Also, 18449686
> looks like a straight forward bug fix.

Added too.

> What do you think about 251e2638 + 3b9b9f24 ?  These work around the
> Windows Vista (and possibly later) hangs in the vgabios with old
> 16-bit apps (the "skifree" problem).

Hmm, not sure.  Feeling a bit nervous, but maybe I'm overcautious ...

cheers,
  Gerd

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu freeze, seabios release

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On Do, 2015-06-11 at 09:42 +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
> qemu soft freeze for 2.4 is just around the corner, time to think about
> the seabios release which should be included there.
> 
> A new release from master isn't even planned yet[1], so I think we
> should go for a 1.8.2 stable release.

tagged & uploaded 1.8.2 now.

git shortlog rel-1.8.1..rel-1.8.2
=================================

Gerd Hoffmann (1):
      vga: rework virtio-vga support

Kevin O'Connor (5):
      vgabios: Add config option for assembler fixups
      vgabios: Emulate "leal" instruction
      build: Support "make VERSION=xyz" to override the default build
version
      build: CONFIG_VGA_FIXUP_ASM should depend on CONFIG_BUILD_VGABIOS
      vgabios: On bda_save_restore() the saved vbe_mode also has flags
in it

Paolo Bonzini (1):
      smm: ignore bits 16,18-31 of SMM revision ID

Vladimir Serbinenko (1):
      ahci: Ignore max_ports.

cheers,
  Gerd