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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] seabios for qemu 1.5
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To: Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com>
Cc: target-devel <target-devel@vger.kernel.org>, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, "seabios@seabios.org" <seabios@seabios.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>, kevin@koconnor.net, anthony@codemonkey.ws, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, asias@redhat.com

  Hi,

>> | 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?

It's in the 1.7.2-stable branch meanwhile.  1.7.2.2 isn't tagged yet
though.  It's going slower than usual, seems Kevin is a bit busy with
non-seabios things these days.

Once we have a release released I'll put updates into master and the
stable-1.5 branch.

cheers,
  Gerd