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From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] insmod virtio-blk is broken in qemu 1.0
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To: Kevin O'Connor <kevin@koconnor.net>
Cc: "seabios@seabios.org" <seabios@seabios.org>, "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:38:02PM -0500, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:02:59PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > We really need to update SeaBIOS whenever there is a bug that we
> > know requires an update.  Things breakdown because of one or more of
> > the following reasons:
> > 
> > 1) User submits a patch to seabios@, Kevin applies it.  But that
> > doesn't necessarily trigger anything happening in QEMU.
> > 
> > Ideally, the above mentioned user would submit a submodule update once (1) happens.
> > 
> > 2) Kevin fixes something on his own or someone else changes
> > something in the broader SeaBIOS community.  That may not even be
> > visible in QEMU.
> 
> There is another complexity here - it's not always clear to me when a
> group pulls a particular revision of SeaBIOS.  So, knowing who to
> notify is harder.
> 
Why not just pull recent Seabios into QEMU weekly (or as fast as Seabios
HEAD moves). Before going into qemu rc stage ask Seabios for formal
release.

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			Gleb.