Bug 839674

Summary:	Revert back to a single seabios binary once s3/s4 configuration is in
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Amit Shah <amit.shah>
Component:	seabios	Assignee:	Michal Novotny <minovotn>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	6.4	CC:	areis, flang, juzhang, michen, qzhang, shuang, virt-maint
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	seabios-0.6.1.2-25.el6	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Cause: Two copies of seabios, the BIOS for VMs, were built earlier. One (default) with s3/s4 support disabled, and second with the support enabled. Bug 827500 added a way to configure per-VM S3/S4 advertisement to guests, invalidating the need for two binaries. Consequence: There were two seabios binaries, with the non-default one enabling S3/S4 advertisement to guests. Fix: Create only one seabios binary that supports both, S3/S4 enabled and disabled modes via configuration parameters. Result: The non-default binary has been removed and the functionality for per-VM power management has been added.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2013-02-21 08:16:08 UTC	Type:	Bug
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
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Bug Depends On:	827500
Bug Blocks:	761491

Description Amit Shah 2012-07-12 14:20:35 UTC

Description of problem:

We disabled S3 and S4 advertisement in the default BIOS for RHEL6.3 (bug 809797), and had a separate bios binary that enabled that functionality.

With the ability to configure the s3/s4 advertisement per-VM (bug 827500), we can do away with the extra binary and have the feature enabled by default.

This bug ensures we revert back to a single binary, which is capable of enabling as well as disabling s3/s4 advertisement.

Comment 4 juzhang 2012-10-19 02:14:36 UTC

Verified this bug by using seabios-0.6.1.2-25.el6.x86_64

#rpm -ql seabios-0.6.1.2-25.el6.x86_64
/usr/share/doc/seabios-0.6.1.2
/usr/share/doc/seabios-0.6.1.2/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/seabios-0.6.1.2/COPYING.LESSER
/usr/share/doc/seabios-0.6.1.2/README
/usr/share/doc/seabios-0.6.1.2/TODO
/usr/share/seabios
/usr/share/seabios/bios.bin


Results:
Just one bin(/usr/share/seabios/bios.bin) left

Additional infos:
KVM QE will also run s3/s4 functional testing during rhel6.4 testing range, will report new bug if find new issues.

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2013-02-21 08:16:08 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, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

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

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-0307.html