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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS]  [Qemu-stable]  problems with freeBSD
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Il 08/03/2013 09:20, Gerd Hoffmann ha scritto:
> 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.

Did it?  This is F18:

$ rpm -q --requires qemu-system-x86|grep bios
seabios-bin >= 0.6.0-2
sgabios-bin
vgabios >= 0.6c-2

$ rpm -q vgabios
vgabios-0.6c-5.fc18.noarch

$ rpm -ql seabios-bin
/usr/share/seabios
/usr/share/seabios/bios.bin

$ rpm -qf /usr/share/vgabios/
vgabios-0.6c-5.fc18.noarch

Paolo

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