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From: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/vexpress: set default block type to SD
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 01:44:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130305004438.GF23040@ohm.aurel32.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA9Mr3V9PvnD5cbsZYemnbOEkU3eLPXDnz2J6npRqJ=Qww@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 08:22:57AM +0800, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 5 March 2013 08:19, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> wrote:
> > The versatile express has no SCSI card, but instead boot on an SD card.
> > Change block_default_type accordingly.
> 
> I notice that no other board has SD as the block_default_type...
> 
> What effect does this actually have on the user experience?

The effect is that the user don't has to specify the interface type.
Basically:

  -drive file=/path/to/file,if=sd
can be replaced by
  -drive file=/path/to/file

It means the user doesn't have to know the details of the machine to
know how to attach a disk. Note that the user here can also be a script,
which then becomes a bit simpler.

> Also, won't vl.c now try to create a cdrom drive on the SD interface?
> 

It still creates a cdrom drive as before, but still doesn't try to
connect it to the SD interface. In short the behaviour on that side is
unchanged.

-- 
Aurelien Jarno                          GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73
aurelien@aurel32.net                 http://www.aurel32.net

  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-05  0:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-05  0:19 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/vexpress: set default block type to SD Aurelien Jarno
2013-03-05  0:22 ` Peter Maydell
2013-03-05  0:44   ` Aurelien Jarno [this message]
2013-03-06  9:25     ` Markus Armbruster
2013-03-15 15:35     ` Peter Maydell
2013-03-15 15:42       ` Aurelien Jarno
2013-03-15 15:45         ` Peter Maydell
2013-03-17  0:04           ` Aurelien Jarno
2013-03-17  0:23             ` Peter Maydell
2013-03-17 10:17               ` Aurelien Jarno
2013-03-17 10:56                 ` Peter Maydell
2013-03-17 18:51             ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-03-17 18:54               ` Peter Maydell
2013-03-17 19:22                 ` Aurelien Jarno
2013-03-18  8:31                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-03-17 19:20               ` Aurelien Jarno
2013-03-17 18:28       ` Paolo Bonzini

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