[MIR] vgabios

Bug #181876 reported by Soren Hansen
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qemu-kvm (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Dustin Kirkland 
vgabios (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
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Matthias Klose (doko) wrote :

the package is ok for inclusion in main. I didn't look at the bios code itself. Is there a way to keep the copies in kvm an qemu in sync?

Changed in vgabios:
status: New → In Progress
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Promoted.

Changed in vgabios:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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Soren Hansen (soren) wrote : Re: [Bug 181876] Re: Main inclusion request

On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 10:13:43PM -0000, Matthias Klose wrote:
> the package is ok for inclusion in main. I didn't look at the bios code
> itself. Is there a way to keep the copies in kvm an qemu in sync?

Last I checked there were kvm specific changes in the bios that made
this quite non-trivial.

I can look into it, though.

--
Soren Hansen
Virtualisation specialist
Ubuntu Server Team
http://www.ubuntu.com/

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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote : Re: Main inclusion request

Reopening this bug, as vgabios is currently in Universe.

I'm working on the merge of qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2, from which the vgabios code has been removed from the release tarball.

We should instead depend on the the vgabios package for installation.

Please let me know if you need anything else from me to update to the MIR, itself. As far as I can see, this should be relatively straightforward, as nearly identical code has been in Main within kvm and qemu-kvm for several years now.

Changed in vgabios (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Released → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → High
milestone: none → lucid-alpha-3
Changed in qemu-kvm (Ubuntu):
status: New → In Progress
importance: Undecided → High
assignee: nobody → Dustin Kirkland (kirkland)
summary: - Main inclusion request
+ [MIR] vgabios
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Loïc Minier (lool) wrote :

Are there large differences between vgabios and the vgabios which lived in qemu-kvm?

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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote : Re: [Bug 181876] Re: [MIR] vgabios

Hrm, well...

There are some differences, I don't know if it's large. The diffstat
looks like this:

 BUGS | 3
 COPYING | 504 ++++++
 ChangeLog | 1311 ++++++++++++++++
 Makefile | 87 +
 Notes | 11
 README | 226 ++
 TODO | 26
 biossums.c | 282 +++
 clext.c | 1641 ++++++++++++++++++++
 dataseghack | 23
 tests/lfbprof/Makefile | 5
 tests/lfbprof/lfbprof.c | 594 +++++++
 tests/lfbprof/lfbprof.h | 149 +
 tests/testbios.c | 353 ++++
 vbe.c | 1452 +++++++++++++++++
 vbe.h | 315 +++
 vbe_display_api.txt | 237 ++
 vbetables-gen.c | 261 +++
 vgabios.c | 3913 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 vgabios.h | 47
 vgafonts.h | 784 +++++++++
 vgatables.h | 622 +++++++
 31 files changed, 12975 insertions(+)

This is the diffstat of the vgabios in karmic's qemu-kvm, which is a
bit older than the vgabios I merged from (latest upstream).

I can try to analyze it a bit more closely.

:-Dustin

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Matthias already ack'ed it in the past, and it's always good to replace copies in upstream tarballs with an explicit package. Matthias' original question "Is there a way to keep the copies in kvm an qemu in sync?" seems to have a proper answer now, since it's now just one source package for both.

Changed in vgabios (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Steve Kowalik (stevenk) wrote :

Based on Martin's ack of Matthias's ack, I have promoted vgabios source and binary from universe to main.

Changed in vgabios (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package qemu-kvm - 0.12.1.2-0ubuntu1

---------------
qemu-kvm (0.12.1.2-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * Merge from upstream
    - debian/rules:
      + drop bios hacks, as we now depend on vgabios
      + align our configure line more closely with fedora, preferring pa
        for audio (let's give this another try, might need to revert by
        Lucid Beta), and accepting the project defaults for audio hw
    - debian/control: depend on vgabios, LP: #181876
    - debian/patches/*: drop patches now included upstream
      + 02_extboot_build_fixes.patch
      + 05_improve-qemu-img-errors.patch
      + 06_set_sdl_title.patch
      + 07_right_ctrl_grab.patch
      + 08_fix_qemu-ifup.patch
      + 09_qemu-fix-qcow2-backing-file-with-virtio.patch
      + 10_fix_scsi_hotplug.patch
      + 11_fix_virtio-blk_hot_add_after_remove.patch
      + 12_whitelist_host_virtio_networking_features.patch
      + 60_armv4l-typo.patch
    - debian/patches/*: apply two patches from Loic Minier, both submitted
      and acked by upstream (should be dropped in a future merge)
      + 0001-linux-user-adapt-uname-machine-to-emulated-CPU.patch
      + 0001-Fix-missing-symbols-in-.rela.plt-sections.patch
    - debian/install, debian/links: install the necessary bios roms;
      when seabios gets promoted to main, we should depend on it, and use
      its bios.bin instead of this one
 -- Dustin Kirkland <email address hidden> Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:54:24 +1300

Changed in qemu-kvm (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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