Comment 39 for bug 513273

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

> The only users positively affected by the new upload are those that
> want to use kvm or qemu with the -vga std option.

Does this mean that if you aren't using the -vga option this change has no effect; and that if you are using the -vga option, it doesn't work today?

> I suspect that the bochs package can possibly be dropped from the
> archive. I think qemu was the only user of bochs previously, and
> upstream QEMU has switched away from bochs to seabios and vgabios
> instead. This needs to be investigated a bit more (perhaps a post on
> ubuntu-devel, in case anyone else knows of what in Lucid might still
> require bochs.

As Soren notes, bochs is its own project. I don't think it's too much to ask for a simple regression-test before and after this vgabios change.

Rejecting the vgabios upload from the freeze queue, since beta freeze is over and this shouldn't be accidentally accepted.