I've uploaded seabios 1.7.4-2 to debian archive which now ships 2 versions of the bios binary -- small 128Kb one and bios-256k.bin (with size = 256Kb, obviously).
For now, both are built with Xen support. So for now, it is enough to just rebuild xen with seabios >= 1.7.4-2~ to get this fixed without patching. However, please apply the mentioned patch (or update to xen-4.3.1 version) _and_ switch to using bios-256k.bin instead of bios.bin, for the next release (and ofcourse build-depend on seabios >= 1.7.4-2~ because that's the version which introduces the new 256k binary). This is because it is very difficult for us in seabios to keep stripped-down/small version to fit within 128Kb without turning off more features, and xen is a good feature to turn off. Besides, as usual, is there may be a way to stop embedding those binaries into the package, and switch to using them at runtime? It isn't always nice when one debian package embeds stuff from another, it is like using non-shared libs when shared libs are provided for you. But I've no idea how this all works in xen. Thanks, /mjt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
