On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 05:47:25PM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote: > well you just upgraded 'hardware' for legacy OS, there is no guaranties > that it will continue to work without any changes.
Are you saying that seabios doesn't attempt to provide a stable virtual hardware platform at all? Is that written down somewhere? > with this patch there will be regression other way around affecting > not so old OSes. It is certainly unfortunate that is took us so long to rediscover this (sorry), but again - the Linux policy is *very* clear on this - you don't get to introduce a regression for something that worked previously in order to support something new that didn't previously work. If the policy of seabios differs from Linux, that's fine - it's your project - but clearly stating that seabios doesn't do this in the documentation would be useful, so we know not to update to newer versions ever. > Here goes another workaround option: use old SeaBIOS for broken OSes. Your "broken OSes" are production systems for many people. > Justification 'my OS stopped seeing root disk' for some unclear reason > might work for close sourced OS but for Linux there should be more > convincing story for a introducing breaking change. It is seabios that introduced the breaking change, not an old Linux version. regards john _______________________________________________ SeaBIOS mailing list -- seabios@seabios.org To unsubscribe send an email to seabios-le...@seabios.org
