On Mo, 2014-03-17 at 19:30 +0100, Andreas Färber wrote: > Hi, > > Am 14.03.2014 04:19, schrieb Anthony Liguori: > > On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the > > first release candidate for the QEMU 2.0 release. This release is meant > > for testing purposes and should not be used in a production environment. > > > > http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-2.0.0-rc0.tar.bz2 > > I've run into an issue with the SeaBIOS submodule included in the QEMU > tarball: The SeaBIOS scripts/buildversion.sh script looks for a .git > directory or file and, if absent, goes on to look for a .version file, > neither of which the QEMU tarball ships. That means it will fall back to > "?" as version, whereas the binary blob contributed by Gerd displays > "rel-1.7.4-0-g96917a8".
I build them from a git checkout, where it works as .git is present. > Should our tarball workflow include generating a roms/seabios/.version > file based on git-describe in that directory to fix this mismatch? Makes sense. cheers, Gerd
