On So, 2013-11-24 at 15:35 -0500, Brad Smith wrote: > On 11/10/13 2:31 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > On Do, 2013-10-10 at 21:17 +0200, Sebastian Herbszt wrote: > >> Andreas Färber wrote: > >>> Same for http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/273758/ - vgabios seems to > >>> be falling through the cracks... > >>> > >>> Andreas > >>> > >> > >> Is this patch still required? > >> I was under the impression that no patch is needed for Win 8 after > >> reading the thread on SeaBIOS list. > > > > There are two implementations, the lgpl vgabios and the seavgabios. The > > prebuild roms in the qemu git repo are lgpl vgabios roms. Probably I'll > > go switch to seavgabios with the next major (non-stable-branch) seabios > > update. > > When will that switch happen? Looking at the archive this proposal for > switching to SeaVGABIOS has already been dragging on for a long time as > it is.
When the next seabios release is out, hopefully early in the 1.8 devel cycle. cheers, Gerd
