Releases

History of SeaBIOS releases. Please see Download for information on obtaining these releases.

SeaBIOS 0.5.1

Available on 20100108. Major changes in this release:

• Support for 32bit PCI BIOS
• Support for int1589 calls
• MPTable fixes for OpenBSD
• ATA DMA and bus-mastering support
• Several bug fixes and code cleanups

SeaBIOS 0.5.0

Available on 20091218. Major changes in this release:

• Several enhancements ported from the Bochs BIOS derived code in qemu and kvm
• Support for parallel hardware initialization to reduce bootup times
• Enable PCI option rom support by default (Bochs users must now enable CONFIG_OPTIONROMS_DEPLOYED in src/config.h). Support added for extracting option roms from qemu "fw_cfg".
• Initial support for USB keyboards
• SeaBIOS can now be greater than 64K
• Support for permanent low memory allocations
• APIC "local interrupts" now enabled in SeaBIOS (on emulators)