Re: [Qemu-devel] seabios for qemu 1.5

[Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 02:11:26PM +0800, Amos Kong wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 07:59:36AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> >   Hi,
> > 
> > > b44a7be17bdd270ea029a8e2ec0c2e80c6cd0444 virtio-scsi: Pack struct virtio_scsi_{req_cmd,resp_cmd}
> > > 5a7730db57ab0715223421e65b54fb50d6fefe5c virtio-scsi: Set _DRIVER_OK flag before scsi target scanning
> > 
> > > Anthony + Gerd, can we expect an rev to pc-bios/bios.bin soon to pick up
> > > these seabios changes for vhost-scsi..?
> > 
> > I don't feel like placing a seabios git snapshot into qemu.
> > 
> > I think we should just cherry-pick everything we need for qemu 1.5 into
> > the 1.7.2-stable branch, roll out a 1.7.2.2 release and put that into
> > qemu 1.5.
> > 
> > So, what will be needed?
> > 
> >   (1) The two commits listed above.
> >   (2) The patch for the pvpanic device (assuming it gets
> >       merged for 1.5).
> > 
> > Anything else?
> 
> Hi Gerd,
> 
> This bug fix is needed:
> 
> | commit 11a7234491cb2a027b0fa5e82af38a3e78b44c80
> | Author: Kevin O'Connor <kevin@koconnor.net>
> | Date:   Tue Mar 5 17:52:21 2013 +0800
> | 
> |     Cache boot-fail-wait to avoid romfile access after POST.
> | 
> |     Memory allocated with malloc_tmp() can't be used after the POST phase.
> |     So, access boot-fail-wait in post phase and store it for the boot
> |     phase to use.  This fixes the regression introduced by commit
> |     59d6ca52.
 

This patch doesn't contain in seabios-1.7.2.1, it wasn't contained in
latest bios.bin of qemu, it caused 'strict boot' doesn't work.

 # qemu -boot strict=on

What can we do for this? push Kevin add this patch in stable branch
and re-built bios.bin?
 
> > Hard freeze for qemu 1.5 is next Wednesday.
> > 
> > cheers,
> >   Gerd
> > 
> > PS: For qemu 1.6 (which will hopefully include the acpi table
> >     reorganization) we will need a new release from the master
> >     branch and thus a bit more careful release planning.

-- 
			Amos.