[Qemu-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] Advise on updating SeaBIOS in stable

[Gerd Hoffmann]

  Hi,

> > If you're looking to pull in 32bit pcibios support, then I don't think
> > it would be worthwhile to rebase to a stable branch, as the 32bit
> > pcibios support is easily the biggest user visible change in v0.5.1
> > (in the sense that Linux will call 32bit pcibios if it's available).
>
> Unless there's a strong demand for it, I'd like to hold off on 32bit
> pcibios support.

I think someone mentioned bochs-based pcbios in qemu 0.11 has 32bit 
pcibios support, so not having that in 0.12 would be a regression. 
Dunno how much this is a problem in practice though.

cheers,
  Gerd