In the interim of moving ACPI tables out of seabios, developers should get the config from QEMU tree to keep things in sync.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com> --- README | 16 ++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index a87a0ad..c6a2ee4 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,9 +1,21 @@ This code implements an X86 legacy bios. It is intended to be compiled using standard gnu tools (eg, gas and gcc). -To build, one should be able to run "make" in the main directory. The -resulting file "out/bios.bin" contains the processed bios image. +To build, one should be able to run "make" in the main directory. +QEMU might only need a part of the BIOS binary, and different QEMU versions +might need different seabios configurations to work well. To build +a bios for qemu, one needs to copy the config file from qemu source tree: + + cp $QEMU_DIR/roms/config.seabios $SEABIOS_DIR/.config + +(where $QEMU_DIR is the qemu source directory, $SEABIOS_DIR points to the +seabios build directory); and then run make in the seabios main directory with +this configuration: + + make olddefconfig + +The resulting file "out/bios.bin" contains the processed bios image. Testing of images: -- MST _______________________________________________ SeaBIOS mailing list SeaBIOS@seabios.org http://www.seabios.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios