[Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] SeaBIOS 1.7.1

[Kevin O'Connor]

The 1.7.1 version of SeaBIOS has now been released.  For more
information on the release, please see:

http://seabios.org/Releases


New in this release:

* Initial support for booting from USB attached scsi (USB UAS) drives
* USB EHCI 64bit controller support
* USB MSC multi-LUN device support
* Support for booting from LSI SCSI controllers on emulators
* Support for booting from AMD PCscsi controllers on emulators
* New PCI allocation code on emulators.  Support 64bit PCI bars and mapping 
them above 4G.
* Support for non-linear APIC ids on emulators.
* Stack switching for 16bit real mode irq handlers to reduce stack footprint.
* Support for custom storage in the memory at 0xc0000-0xf0000.  No longer 
reserve memory for custom storage in first 640k.
* Improved code generation for 16bit segment register loads
* Boot code will now (by default) reboot after 60 seconds if no boot device 
found
* CBFS and FWCFG "files" are now only scanned one time
* Several bug fixes


For information on obtaining SeaBIOS, please see:

http://seabios.org/Download