On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 01:56:15PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 07:36:43AM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 10:57:15AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > qemu 5.1 is coming closer, with freeze in a week and release in August. > > > See https://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/5.1 > > > > > > We'll need a new seabios release for qemu 5.1, and the options we have > > > are: > > > > > > (1) cherry-pick bugfixes (at least the cirrus vga fix, probably more) > > > into 1.13-stable, tag a 1.13.1 stable release. > > > (2) tag a 1.14 release from master branch. > > > > > > Given we have several useful changes in the master branch which I would > > > not consider being bugfixes a 1.14 released would be nice. Freeze in a > > > week and release in three weeks should work fine with the qemu release > > > schedule. > > > > > > What do you think? > > > > I'm fine with tagging a new release. I'm not sure we'll necessarily > > match QEMU's schedule though. How about we target July 24th for the > > release? > > That'll be fine. Early enough for -rc2, if something goes wrong we have > -rc3 as fallback. > > I'll go update seabios to a snapshot beforehand, so seabios will get > more testing and also to keep the delta small when updating to the > released version during the freeze.
Hi Gerd, What's your thoughts on this release and the recent ld issue? We can change SeaBIOS to work around the upstream change to ld and push it into this release (likely with a delay) or we can go forward with the release as is. Thoughts? -Kevin _______________________________________________ SeaBIOS mailing list -- seabios@seabios.org To unsubscribe send an email to seabios-le...@seabios.org
