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  2. RHEL-7562

Please add seabios, seabios-bin and seavgabios-bin to CRB for non-x86_64 arches in RHEL 9

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      Right now the seabios binary packages (seabios, seabios-bin, seavgabios-bin) are only shipped for x86_64 in RHEL 9 (in the AppStream repo). This is a similar issue to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2125336 (which was about edk2) and I'm hoping for a similar resolution – shipping these packages in CRB for all other architectures, while keeping it in AppStream for x86_64 (per https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2125336#c11 this is allowed).

      I'm requesting this to enable building qemu as part of the CentOS Hyperscale SIG without having to maintain a forked version of seabios there (https://git.centos.org/rpms/seabios/commits/c9s-sig-hyperscale). This work is being done in preparation for adding qemu to EPEL 9, which will require seabios being available on all arches. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2125336#c10 for more details (this talks about el8 but the main point stands).

              ymankad@redhat.com Yash Mankad
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              Yash Mankad Yash Mankad
              Yihuang Yu Yihuang Yu
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