a list of small things to fix for qemu-kvm-0.12.3.1

..or for subsequent releases.

First of all, roms/{sea,vga}bios directories are empty in qemu-kvm tarballs but they're present in qemu tarball. I think the sources for the bioses should be restored.

While at it, the EXTERNAL_DEPENDENCIES file should list actual git commit ID for the seabios used, which is "two commits ahead of 0.5.1 release".

And while at it, pc-bios/README should probably be updated to reference to roms/* as well as to the original sources for the binaries. But that's in qemu.

The following files should be removed when releasing a new version:

qemu/pc-bios/extboot.bin
(this one slipped in from an old directory,

    it's now without first "qemu" component;

And yes, 0.12.3 tarball has that file for some unknown reason).

git-related files (.gitignore, .gitmodules
and kvm/.gitignore) should be removed too when releasing things, IMHO.

Thanks!

/mjt

And probably other dot-files too:

kvm/vgabios/.cvsignore
tests/cris/.gdbinit

And I just realized that vgabios is in kvm/vgabios as it were in 0.11 and before. In upstream qemu it were moved to roms/vgabios, but see the first item in this email above... ;)

And while at it, what about kvm/extboot/ which contains no useful files anymore, with everything moved to pc-bios/optionroms/ ?