Backport of SeaBIOS commit 6ad7b5

Backport of SeaBIOS commit 6ad7b5

[Roger Pau Monné]

Hello,

I would like to request the backport of the following SeaBIOS upstream 
commit:

commit 6ad7b5b9772a0b8bab20f1386c720f474cad5398
Author: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Date:   Wed Apr 16 09:14:16 2014 +0200

    ld: don't hardcode "-melf_i386"

    On FreeBSD, the name of the emulation is "-melf_i386_fbsd", so allow
    SeaBIOS to fetch the emulation to use from the environment variables.

    This allows SeaBIOS to compile on FreeBSD with gcc.

    Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
    Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>

This is needed in order to build SeaBIOS on FreeBSD with the linker 
from base.

Thanks, Roger.

Re: Backport of SeaBIOS commit 6ad7b5

[Ian Campbell]

On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 18:06 +0100, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to request the backport of the following SeaBIOS upstream 

Seems reasonable, however I would like to apply "tools: update to
SeaBIOS 1.7.4" first.

I see that there is a 1.7.5-rc1 tagged -- how long would I have to
procrastinate to avoid the backport and just update to 1.7.5 instead I
wonder ;-)

Ian.

> commit:
> 
> commit 6ad7b5b9772a0b8bab20f1386c720f474cad5398
> Author: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com>
> Date:   Wed Apr 16 09:14:16 2014 +0200
> 
>     ld: don't hardcode "-melf_i386"
> 
>     On FreeBSD, the name of the emulation is "-melf_i386_fbsd", so allow
>     SeaBIOS to fetch the emulation to use from the environment variables.
> 
>     This allows SeaBIOS to compile on FreeBSD with gcc.
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
>     Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
> 
> This is needed in order to build SeaBIOS on FreeBSD with the linker 
> from base.
> 
> Thanks, Roger.



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Re: Backport of SeaBIOS commit 6ad7b5

[Roger Pau Monné]

On 28/05/14 11:06, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 18:06 +0100, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I would like to request the backport of the following SeaBIOS upstream 
> 
> Seems reasonable, however I would like to apply "tools: update to
> SeaBIOS 1.7.4" first.
>
> I see that there is a 1.7.5-rc1 tagged -- how long would I have to
> procrastinate to avoid the backport and just update to 1.7.5 instead I
> wonder ;-)

Waiting for 1.7.5 is fine with me, as long as it gets into 4.5 :)

Roger.

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Re: Backport of SeaBIOS commit 6ad7b5

[Fabio Fantoni]

Il 28/05/2014 12:06, Ian Campbell ha scritto:
> On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 18:06 +0100, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I would like to request the backport of the following SeaBIOS upstream
> Seems reasonable, however I would like to apply "tools: update to
> SeaBIOS 1.7.4" first.
>
> I see that there is a 1.7.5-rc1 tagged -- how long would I have to
> procrastinate to avoid the backport and just update to 1.7.5 instead I
> wonder ;-)

I also think it is better to upgrade to 1.7.5-rc1 as soon as possible in 
unstable.
About the 2seabios patchesin the queue mustbe well tested including the 
case with-system-seabiosbefore being approved?
If yes I'll test them soon as possible.

Thanks for any reply and sorry for my bad english.

>
> Ian.
>
>> commit:
>>
>> commit 6ad7b5b9772a0b8bab20f1386c720f474cad5398
>> Author: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com>
>> Date:   Wed Apr 16 09:14:16 2014 +0200
>>
>>      ld: don't hardcode "-melf_i386"
>>
>>      On FreeBSD, the name of the emulation is "-melf_i386_fbsd", so allow
>>      SeaBIOS to fetch the emulation to use from the environment variables.
>>
>>      This allows SeaBIOS to compile on FreeBSD with gcc.
>>
>>      Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
>>      Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
>>
>> This is needed in order to build SeaBIOS on FreeBSD with the linker
>> from base.
>>
>> Thanks, Roger.
>
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Re: Backport of SeaBIOS commit 6ad7b5

[Fabio Fantoni]

Il 28/05/2014 12:12, Roger Pau Monné ha scritto:
> On 28/05/14 11:06, Ian Campbell wrote:
>> On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 18:06 +0100, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I would like to request the backport of the following SeaBIOS upstream
>> Seems reasonable, however I would like to apply "tools: update to
>> SeaBIOS 1.7.4" first.
>>
>> I see that there is a 1.7.5-rc1 tagged -- how long would I have to
>> procrastinate to avoid the backport and just update to 1.7.5 instead I
>> wonder ;-)
> Waiting for 1.7.5 is fine with me, as long as it gets into 4.5 :)

You can also build upstead seabios external (from system package or 
custom) and make xen use it with configure.
For example: ./configure ... 
--with-system-seabios=/usr/share/seabios/bios.bin

>
> Roger.
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