[Qemu-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH] mark irq9 active high in DSDT

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

  On 10/25/2010 12:52 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> I'm okay with making tags and branches of seabios for bug fixes.  So
>> far qemu/kvm has just grabbed various builds of seabios - is it
>> worthwhile to branch off of the seabios-0.6.1 version - which would
>> mean qemu/kvm would pull in additional changes beyond the bug fix
>> above?
>
>
> qemu 0.12 is based on 0.5.1-stable, appears to be an untagged commit
> qemu 0.13 is based on 17d3e46511, doesn't appear to be a part of a 
> branch or a tag?
>
> git-wise, tags are more important than branches.  You can always 
> retrofit a branch to a tag (and you can always retrofit a tag to a 
> commit hash).  For the qemu git repositories, neither matter so much 
> since the commit is recorded in git; but the distro people really like 
> nice stable tags with lots of digits and dots in them.
>

On the last kvm conf call Anthony said that he'll be happy to include an 
updated seabios with qemu 0.13.1, so a new release would be appreciated.


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