meta-zephyr-sdk: qemu: Use Zephyr SeaBIOS fork binaries #971
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Something funny happens with the current Zephyr SeaBIOS and QEMU 10.0.2 -- it hangs for around 30 seconds at start-up before booting into Zephyr.
We are probably using a SeaBIOS version too old for QEMU 10 -- from https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2393:
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The original change making QEMU use Zephyr SeaBIOS fork, 1bf6f4a, was dropped by mistake during the upgrade to QEMU 10.0.2. This commit updates the QEMU recipe to use the pre-built x86 BIOS binaries from the Zephyr SeaBIOS fork. The Zephyr SeaBIOS fork contains a few additional patches to make debugging more convenient for x86 QEMU targets (e.g. not clearing screen on reset). Signed-off-by: Stephanos Ioannidis <root@stephanos.io>
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The original change making QEMU use Zephyr SeaBIOS fork, 1bf6f4a, was dropped by mistake during the upgrade to QEMU 10.0.2.
This commit updates the QEMU recipe to use the pre-built x86 BIOS binaries from the Zephyr SeaBIOS fork.
The Zephyr SeaBIOS fork contains a few additional patches to make debugging more convenient for x86 QEMU targets (e.g. not clearing screen on reset).
Fixes #967
To be backported to
v0.17-branch.