I'm forwarding this to upstream, such enhancements, in my opinion, should not be done inside a single distribution, and since I don't use (and don't even know how to use) the mentioned features I can't further comment on this, and don't really want to become a broken phone.
Thank you for the good analisys (in initial email and in a folllowup at http://bugs.debian.org/740464 ). BTW, this is not qemu-kvm, this is qemu. Qemu-kvm has been merged into qemu since version 1.3. Thanks, /mjt ------- Original message -------- Subject: Bug#740464: qemu-kvm: support for seabios option "screen-and-debug" Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2014 14:27:35 -0800 From: Matt Taggart <tagg...@debian.org> Package: qemu-kvm Version: 1.7.0+dfsg-3 Severity: wishlist I am using seabios with sgabios in kvm (in order to get early BIOS messages on serial), and during the bootloader stage I am seeing all characters printed twice. I found this page http://www.coreboot.org/SeaBIOS#Adding_sgabios_support which explains the problem and that you can fix it by disabling the "screen-and-debug" config option. It also references this list of other config options http://www.coreboot.org/SeaBIOS#Other_Configuration_items Looking at the qemu-kvm source, I see that in hw/nvram/fw_cfg.c and qemu-options.hx there is support for changing a few of these, things like show-boot-menu, boot-menu-wait, splashfile. Could you please add support for enabling the "screen-and-debug" option? Also interesting from that list might be boot-menu-message boot-menu-key boot-fail-wait i(the others are either obscure or I don't know what they are for, so I don't know if they would be useful). Thanks, -- Matt Taggart tagg...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
