[SeaBIOS] vgabios testing

Gerd Hoffmann kraxel at redhat.com
Mon Mar 5 08:22:22 CET 2012


  Hi,

> It may be possible to post-process the resulting assembler code, but
> (assuming we could) it would be quite ugly.

Too bad, but there is no way around that :(

>> I've applied the following patch to x86emu and it seems to work better:
> 
> So, I guess the question is, how important is support for
> current/legacy x86emu versions?

Very.  Almost every linux distro in the wild is affected by this, so
this is a showstopper for qemu switching from lgpl vgabios to seabios
vgabios.

cheers,
  Gerd



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