Fedora 13 Update: seabios-0.6.0-1.fc13

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-13138
2010-08-20 00:58:13
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Name        : seabios
Product     : Fedora 13
Version     : 0.6.0
Release     : 1.fc13
URL         : http://www.coreboot.org/SeaBIOS
Summary     : Open-source legacy BIOS implementation
Description :
SeaBIOS is an open-source legacy BIOS implementation which can be used as
a coreboot payload. It implements the standard BIOS calling interfaces
that a typical x86 proprietary BIOS implements.

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Update Information:

Update qemu to 0.12.5 to fix several bugs, and include a correct requirement for
the gpxe rom name change.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Aug 12 2010 Justin M. Forbes <jforbes at redhat.com> 0.6.0-1
- Update seabios to latest stable so we can drop patches.
* Tue Jun 29 2010 Justin M. Forbes <jforbes at redhat.com> 0.5.1-3
- Support booting from virtio disks
- zero memory before use
- Fix resume from S3 when using QXL device
- Avoid counting io-hole are RAM
- Do not advertise hpet to guests
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #593455 - qemu: Improve error reporting when SDL fails
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=593455
  [ 2 ] Bug #605757 - 2tb virtio disk gets massively corrupted filesystems
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=605757
  [ 3 ] Bug #605202 - qemu segfault in block/vvfat.c
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=605202
  [ 4 ] Bug #609892 - [abrt] crash in qemu-system-x86-2:0.12.3-8.fc13: inet_listen_opts: Process /usr/bin/qemu-kvm was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=609892
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update seabios' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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