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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS]  [Qemu-stable]  problems with freeBSD
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To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, Doug Goldstein <cardoe@gentoo.org>, seabios@seabios.org, Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>, qemu-stable@nongnu.org, "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>, Dietmar Maurer <dietmar@proxmox.com>, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>

On 03/08/13 08:47, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> FWIW I find the binaries in git to be a PITA. I submitted a patch in
>> January to fix the VGA BIOS but it's still broken in git. The one
>> installed in /usr/share/qemu is fine, but whenever I build qemu from git
>> I have to remember to *remove* the one in the git tree or it uses that
>> instead...
> 
> Wasn't that a fix for the SeaBIOS VGA BIOS?  The one in qemu.git is
> still built from the Bochs VGA BIOS.
> 
> Last year, malc blocked the switch on the lack of protected mode
> interface in SeaVGABIOS.

Fedora switched though, so the distro binaries in /usr/share/qemu are
the seavgabios ones.

"make -C roms seavgabios" in the qemu source tree will upgrade the blobs
in pc-bios/.

cheers,
  Gerd