Re: [PATCH][QEMU] Allow more IDE power management

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 02:45:40PM -0400, Ben Guthro wrote:
> Made the QEMU IDE disk tolerate more power-mgmt commands, specifically:
> 	WIN_SETFEATURE(EN_AAM)	- enable automatic acoustic mgmt
> 	WIN_SETFEATURE(DIS_AAM)	- disable automatic acoustic mgmt
> 	WIN_SETFEATURE(DIS_APM)	- disable automatic power mgmt
> 	WIN_STANDBY
> 	WIN_SETIDLE1
> 	WIN_SLEEPNOW1
> 	WIN_STANDBY2
> 	WIN_SETIDLE2
> 	WIN_SLEEPNOW2
> 	WIN_STANDBYNOW2
> These are all essentially no-ops, like existing support for EN_RLA (enable
> read lookahead) and WIN_STANDBYNOW1.
> 
> This fixes a crash in the SLES9-SP3 64bit kernel when the powersaved was
> started (with ACPI or ACM).  This guest really only needs EN_AAM, DIS_APM,
> and WIN_SETIDLE1 support, but the others seemed sensible to include.
> 
> I've excluded EN_APM since I'm unsure of what that's agreeing to do.  It's
> probably ok to include.

This and other QEMU patches should really be sent to upstream QEMU for review
and inclusion first so we don't have to maintain extra patches in Xen forever.

Dan.
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