Bug 2018392

Summary: [rebase] update seabios to nov '21 release
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel>
Component: seabiosAssignee: Paweł Poławski <ppolawsk>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Xueqiang Wei <xuwei>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 8.5CC: coli, jinzhao, juzhang, kkiwi, mrezanin, ppolawsk, virt-maint, yfu
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: Rebase, Triaged
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Hardware: Unspecified   
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Fixed In Version: seabios-1.15.0-1.module+el8.6.0+13725+61ae1949 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Last Closed: 2022-05-10 13:21:40 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Gerd Hoffmann 2021-10-29 06:13:39 UTC
Description of problem:

Comment 1 Gerd Hoffmann 2021-12-08 10:00:59 UTC
status/plan update:

Release 1.15.0 has been tagged on Dec 2nd.

Release 1.16.0 will follow shortly (january).

Pending changes for 1.16.0 as of today:
  smbios 3.0 support: https://git.kraxel.org/cgit/seabios/log/?h=smbios
  fix shpc io resources: https://git.kraxel.org/cgit/seabios/log/?h=b4/v3-20211129-imammedo-pci-reserve-resources-for-pcie-pci-bridge-to-fix-regressed-hotplug-on-q35
  fix large virtio-blk transfers: https://git.kraxel.org/cgit/seabios/log/?h=b4/v4-20211207-andy-pei-virtio-blk-add-feature-virtio-blk-f-size-max

Comment 2 Gerd Hoffmann 2021-12-08 10:25:12 UTC
rebase notes:
patch "redhat: reserve more memory on fseg" can be dropped,
obsoleted by this upstream patch:

commit 7292e4a0a8f58333ccbd2d0d47242f9865083c9c
Author: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel>
Date:   Fri Apr 16 08:57:02 2021 +0200

    Increase BUILD_MIN_BIOSTABLE for large roms

Comment 5 Klaus Heinrich Kiwi 2021-12-22 16:09:10 UTC
Pawel,

 you mentioned to me this was essentially done, but the MR is still in draft - should we move it to 'ready' so that we can move this to 'POST'?

Comment 9 Xueqiang Wei 2022-01-19 01:40:11 UTC
Tested seabios test loop with guests rhel8.6.0 and windows2016, no new bug found.


Versions:
kernel-4.18.0-355.el8.x86_64
qemu-kvm-6.2.0-1.module+el8.6.0+13725+61ae1949
seabios-bin-1.15.0-1.module+el8.6.0+13725+61ae1949.noarch

Comment 12 Xueqiang Wei 2022-01-21 08:36:18 UTC
According to Comment 9, set status to VERIFIED.

Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2022-05-10 13:21:40 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (Moderate: virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel security, bug fix, and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1759