* Gerd Hoffmann (kra...@redhat.com) wrote: > Hi, > > > Do you mean a workaround for the (historically lacking) emulation of the > > PAM chipset registers? PAM emulation has been correct for quite a while > > now in QEMU, as far as I can tell. > > > > (Sorry if I'm completely off.) > > That was the first thing coming to my mind too. > > So, yes, recent qemu versions should not suffer from that issue. > But seabios wants to be able to run on old qemu versions too, so they > can't be completely ignored ... > > Maybe fixing things on modern qemu is easier if we add a compile time > option for backward compatibility with old qemu versions? > > At least for qemu this would work fine. We have two different seabios > binaries anyway, because at some point seabios didn't fit into 128k any > more. So we have one 128k bios, for backward compatibility, and with > support for features added only recently to qemu turned off to make it > fit. And one full-featured 256k bios version. Only the 128k version > needs support for old qemu versions without proper PAM emulation.
But of course that's the one that's actually broken in this case! Dave > cheers, > Gerd > -- Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilb...@redhat.com / Manchester, UK _______________________________________________ SeaBIOS mailing list SeaBIOS@seabios.org https://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios