Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] Next release

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 06:50:44PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 11:14:03AM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 06:01:08PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 05:20:46PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> > > > As previously discussed, I'll be generating the next seabios release
> > > > in the next couple of days.  If there are any outstanding defects that
> > > > need to be addressed in this release, please let me know.
> > > > 
> > > > -Kevin
> > > 
> > > Could you also include the patch that
> > > loads the PCI config from qemu?
> > 
> > Lets add that to the next release.  We can create a new stable release
> > if needed.
> > 
> > -Kevin
> 
> Hmm ... do you think this and loading acpi tables from
> qemu are reasonable things to add to a stable release?

Hrmm - you are right - that isn't really a good plan for a stable
release.

> For QEMU the plan is to tag 1.6.0-rc1 on Aug 1,
> and naturally we will only use a stable seabios there
> http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/1.6
> 
> Hard freeze is a month from now, and things work fine
> for me so I was hoping to start loading acpi
> from qemu in that version. Is there a way to
> have some seabios release that supports this in time
> for 1.6?

I'd like to go forward with this release.  If things are ready, I'm
okay with making another release when those changes are ready.

-Kevin