Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] [PATCH 5/5] [wip] sercon: initial split-output implementation

[Igor Mammedov]

On Tue, 04 Oct 2016 10:49:41 +0200
Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden> wrote:

>   Hi,
> 
> > Interesting.  I'm curious how the memory scan works, because I
> > didn't think there was any way to find the vga entry point except
> > from the int10 vector.
> 
> Run the init code in emulator?
> 
> > Were you looking to include this series in SeaBIOS v1.10?  We can
> > either delay the release or push the changes into the next release.
> 
> 1.10 release in october would be great for qemu as freeze for the 2.8
> release is november 1st.  That doesn't leave much room to delay
> things ...
> 
> I think that means either merge the current sercon version (posted to
> the list last Wednesday, have you looked at it?) for 1.10 or move it
> into the next release.
> 
> > Also not sure where Igor's patches stand wrt inclusion into QEMU.
> 
> Good question.  It isn't yet in the qemu master branch.
> Igor?  Do you have a status update?

So far plan is merge it into QEMU 2.8.
I've amended QEMU counterpart according to Radim's and Paolo's reviews
and plan to respin it soon.
It will depend on Radim's 
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-09/msg08292.html
though, so my series will be merged after that

> 
> cheers,
>   Gerd
>