On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:07:17PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > How do we manage the stable series wrt this issue? > > qemu-kvm-0.12.5 has a regression within the stable series that this > patch fixes. qemu 0.12.5 does not, but only because it does not > emulate polarity in the I/O APIC correctly. > > There are several paths we could take: > > - do nothing, bug is fixed in mainline > - release a seabios 0.x.1 for qemu 0.13.1 with this patch > - same, plus seabios 0.y.1 for qemu 0.12.6 with this patch > - skip qemu (which is not truly affected), patch qemu-kvm's copy of > seabios for both 0.12.z and 0.13.z > > The third option is the most "correct" from a release engineering > point of view, but involves more work for everyone.
I'm okay with making tags and branches of seabios for bug fixes. So far qemu/kvm has just grabbed various builds of seabios - is it worthwhile to branch off of the seabios-0.6.1 version - which would mean qemu/kvm would pull in additional changes beyond the bug fix above? -Kevin
