Bug 933284

Summary:	sys-firmware/seabios: version bump to 1.16.3 (was: QEMU v8.2/v9.0+ stuck at boot for ~60s/need newer SeaBIOS)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	soundbastlerlive
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Virtualization Team <virtualization>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	c1sco.m, soundbastlerlive, tamiko, virtualization
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=932242
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Description soundbastlerlive 2024-05-31 21:14:50 UTC

QEMU v8.2/v9.0+ gets stuck at boot (SeaBIOS) for ~60s/need newer SeaBIOS, see https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2365

Downgrading to v8.1 fixes it, but so does upgrading SeaBIOS.

I manually verified simply by copying the seabios 1.16.0 ebuild to 1.16.3 and upgrading - problem fixed.

All that's needed is for someone to commit a copy of the seabios ebuild renamed to 1.16.3.

Thanks!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. upgrade QEMU to 8.2/9.0+


Actual Results:  
SeaBIOS stuck for ~30s

Expected Results:  
no delay

according to QEMU some BIOS/AHCI changes caused this and you should always use bundled SeaBIOS, or at least latest.

Comment 1 soundbastlerlive 2024-05-31 22:46:14 UTC

to be clear: before I used seabios-bin-1.16.0 like "officially supported". but as I cannot bump the -bin, I switched to "unsupported non-bin 1.16.3 and it seems to work fine. so ideally of course both packages (seabios and seabios-bin) should be bumped

Comment 2 z3ro 2024-06-22 12:34:15 UTC

same behavior. Fixed by rollback of qemu on 8.1.5 stable/build 1.16.3 seabios by yourself. Will be incredible if seabios(-bin) 1.16.3 will be updated on mainstream