From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NVQpK-0005tU-Ja for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:37:34 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NVQpF-0005qO-Jk for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:37:34 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53270 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NVQpF-0005qE-5R for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:37:29 -0500 Received: from mail-qy0-f194.google.com ([209.85.221.194]:61943) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NVQpE-0008D1-Nf for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:37:28 -0500 Received: by qyk32 with SMTP id 32so3932321qyk.4 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:37:28 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B4F2C26.7050202@codemonkey.ws> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:37:26 -0600 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4B4CD0F3.2050607@codemonkey.ws> <20100113045148.GD12792@morn.localdomain> <4B4E5E2B.9080300@codemonkey.ws> <20100114134637.GA11393@morn.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20100114134637.GA11393@morn.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: Advise on updating SeaBIOS in stable List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Kevin O'Connor Cc: seabios@seabios.org, qemu-devel , Aurelien Jarno On 01/14/2010 07:46 AM, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 05:58:35PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: > >> I actually need the compiler fix to build on my laptop (F12) so I've >> included that too. Care to take a look at >> git://git.qemu.org/seabios.git stable-0.5.0? It survives some light >> testing and I'll be doing more thorough testing overnight. >> > I'd also include: 2ceeec9d, and 085debd9. The first fixes a binutils > oddity, and the second is a straight-forward bug fix. > > >> If you want to add some more and/or tag a release, I'll resync again >> before cutting 0.12.2. >> >> >>> If you're looking to pull in 32bit pcibios support, then I don't think >>> it would be worthwhile to rebase to a stable branch, as the 32bit >>> pcibios support is easily the biggest user visible change in v0.5.1 >>> (in the sense that Linux will call 32bit pcibios if it's available). >>> >> Unless there's a strong demand for it, I'd like to hold off on 32bit >> pcibios support. >> > That makes sense. I'll pull your branch into my tree as well. > However, I don't think I'll get time to look much closer at this until > tomorrow night. > Based on the importance of 32bit pcibios support, I think it makes sense for us to just go to 0.5.1. Post 0.12.2, I think we'll want to be more restrictive but this looks to be an important feature. Regards, Anthony Liguori > -Kevin >