Re: [Qemu-stable] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.4 0/2] fix migration failure from 1.3 due to SeaBIOS size change

[Anthony Liguori]

Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden> writes:

>>> 1) When I compile seabios 1.7.2 locally I end up with a 128KB binary.
>> 
>> So do I on Fedora 18.  Unless someone has a reason why this is a bad
>> thing, I'll commit a 128kb binary and we can avoid this problem for 1.4.
>
> Seems to be a toolchain issue.  Building on RHEL-6 (which I did for all
> seabios builds in qemu git) gives me this:
>
> address@hidden roms]$ ll seabios/out/bios*
> -rw-rw-r--. 1 kraxel nobody  131072 Feb  6 09:52 seabios/out/bios.bin
> -rwxrwxr-x. 1 kraxel nobody 1048716 Feb  6 09:52 seabios/out/bios.bin.elf
> -rwxrwxr-x. 1 kraxel nobody  127972 Feb  6 09:52 seabios/out/bios.bin.raw
> -rw-rw-r--. 1 kraxel nobody     137 Feb  6 09:52 seabios/out/biostables.d
> -rw-rw-r--. 1 kraxel nobody   12100 Feb  6 09:52 seabios/out/biostables.o
>
> And on Fedora 18 I get this:
>
> -rw-rw-r--. 1 kraxel kraxel  262144 Feb  6 09:52 seabios/out/bios.bin
> -rwxrwxr-x. 1 kraxel kraxel 1048716 Feb  6 09:52 seabios/out/bios.bin.elf
> -rwxrwxr-x. 1 kraxel kraxel  131952 Feb  6 09:52 seabios/out/bios.bin.raw
> -rw-rw-r--. 1 kraxel kraxel     137 Feb  6 09:52 seabios/out/biostables.d
> -rw-rw-r--. 1 kraxel kraxel   11872 Feb  6 09:52 seabios/out/biostablRes.o

I assume you got this backwards, right?  RHEL6 gives you the larger
build?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> With no config options changed.
>
>> Obviously, we need to figure it out but that at least buys us some time...
>
> Yea, just committing the Fedora 18 build looks more sane than trying to
> figure how to handle the size change in hard freeze.
>
> cheers,
>   Gerd