On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:02:59PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 12/19/2011 11:43 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > >I hadn't raised it again, because I had mistakenly assumed QEMU > >will automatically pull in the newer SeaBios release before 1.0 > >came out. I could have more aggresively bugged people on qemu-devel > >to update SeaBios, but given your point above about not wanting to > >rebase Seabios its not clear that would have helped sort this out > >before 1.0 > > We really need to update SeaBIOS whenever there is a bug that we > know requires an update. Things breakdown because of one or more of > the following reasons: > > 1) User submits a patch to seabios@, Kevin applies it. But that > doesn't necessarily trigger anything happening in QEMU. > > Ideally, the above mentioned user would submit a submodule update once (1) > happens. > > 2) Kevin fixes something on his own or someone else changes > something in the broader SeaBIOS community. That may not even be > visible in QEMU. > > Syncing right before release isn't a good strategy either because > that means we're pulling in something that hasn't been tested > extensively at the very tail end of our release cycle. > > I would like to point out that August -> October is a pretty long > time period for a regression like this to exist. I think that > really indicates that the primary problem is testing, not frequency > of SeaBIOS updates.
One complication is that alot of us are not necessarily testing the SeaBIOS that is in QEMU GIT. Fedora rawhide includes qemu-kvm.git snapshots which are updated fairly frequently, but we don't use the SeaBIOS QEMU includes. Instead Fedora includes the latest SeaBIOS upstream release. So Fedora 16/rawhide users would never have seen this particular bug for longer than a couple of weeks until the fixed SeaBIOS arrived. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|
