[Qemu-devel] seabios 1.7.3 breaks booting windows 7? (was: [ANNOUNCE] SeaBIOS 1.7.3)

[Cole Robinson]

On 07/07/2013 11:41 PM, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> The 1.7.3 version of SeaBIOS has now been released.  For more
> information on the release, please see:
> 
> http://seabios.org/Releases
> 
> 
> New in this release:
> 
> * Initial support for using SeaBIOS as a UEFI Compatibility Support
>   Module (CSM)
> * Support for detecting and using ACPI reboot ports.
> * By default, all 16bit entry points now use an internal stack to
>   reduce stack footprint.
> * Floppy controller code has been rewritten to improve
>   compatibility. Non-standard floppy sizes now work again with recent
>   QEMU versions.
> * Several bug fixes and code cleanups
> 
> 

Just gave it a spin, breaks booting a Windows 7 VM for me. Using qemu-1.4.2
from Fedora 19 as well as qemu.git.

Here's the BSOD (F19 qemu and seabios 1.7.3):
http://crobinso.fedorapeople.org/misc/seabios_1.7.3_windows_err.png

I bisected to:

commit 76e58028d28e78431f9de3cee0b3c88d807fa39d
Author: Kevin O'Connor <address@hidden>
Date:   Wed Mar 6 21:50:09 2013 -0500

    acpi: Eliminate BDAT parameter passing to DSDT code.


Reproducing command line:

x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 \
    -bios /usr/share/seabios/bios.bin \
    -machine pc-i440fx-1.4,accel=kvm,usb=off \
    -m 4096 -smp 4 \
    -sdl -vga std \
    win7.qcow2

Let me know if there's any more info I can provide.

Thanks,
Cole