Fedora 17 Update: seabios-1.7.1-1.fc17

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-17201
2012-10-30 02:24:37
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Name        : seabios
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 1.7.1
Release     : 1.fc17
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:

* Rebased to version 1.7.1
* 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
* Failed boots now loop every 60 seconds, fixes some pxe issues (bz #586324)
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ChangeLog:

* Sat Oct 27 2012 Cole Robinson <crobinso at redhat.com> - 1.7.1-1
- Rebased to version 1.7.1
- 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
- Failed boots now loop every 60 seconds, fixes some pxe issues (bz
* Mon May 28 2012 Cole Robinson <crobinso at redhat.com> - 1.7.0-1
- Rebased to version 1.7.0
- Support for virtio-scsi
- Improved USB drive support
- Several USB controller bug fixes and improvements
* Wed Mar 28 2012 Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini at redhat.com> - 1.6.3-2
- Fix bugs in booting from host (or redirected) USB pen drives
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #586324 - qemu pxe boot fails - dhcp timeout
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=586324
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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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