Bug 839674 - Revert back to a single seabios binary once s3/s4 configuration is in
Summary: Revert back to a single seabios binary once s3/s4 configuration is in
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: seabios
Version: 6.4
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Michal Novotny
QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs
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Depends On: 827500
Blocks: 761491
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Reported: 2012-07-12 14:20 UTC by Amit Shah
Modified: 2013-02-21 08:16 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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.
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Last Closed: 2013-02-21 08:16:08 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2013:0307 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE seabios bug fix and enhancement update 2013-02-20 20:35:30 UTC

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


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