On 2018/01/09 15:13, Mike Larkin wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 10:39:30PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > There was a new release of SeaBIOS recently which includes its own > > serial console redirection code. This updates SeaBIOS, enables > > CONFIG_SERCON and removes SGABIOS and the option rom-related > > code/config. > > > > Working here in a quick test with OpenBSD guest (also gets rid of the > > doubled characters in the boot loader seen before with SGABIOS) but I'm > > not making heavy use of vmm myself. > > > > After building, to test: > > > > fw_update -p /path/to/packages/amd64/ -D unsigned > > > > To revert to the old one in case of problems, pkg_delete vmm-firmware > > and re-run fw_update with no command line. > > cool, seems ok to me. if we do a quick sanity test with a linux guest > bootloader (eg can you see grub), then I think this can become the default. > > thanks sthen
Ah damn, sorry, my testing methodology was bogus. It needs more than just the config option, also it needs a fw_cfg variable to actually enable it, which I had forgotten to workaround. That's easy enough and works for HD boots (I've now got Alpine setup to test) but something is wrong with CD boots (both with CONFIG_SERCON and with SGABIOS). No urgency (afaik) with the update, and I definitely don't want to cause any work for you Mike :) but paging ccardenas if you are interested in taking a look? It hangs after "pci dev 00:04.0 using legacy (0.9.5) virtio mode" if cdrom is used. (I mostly looked at updating SeaBIOS because I thought it would be nice to remove the Apache-license SGABIOS code). Updated diff with the config part I missed before at https://junkpile.org/seabios-1.11.0-diff,2
