Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] ppc64-softmmu: Remove unsupported FDC from config

[Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>]

On 03/09/2015 11:31 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
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>
> On 02.03.15 00:46, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>> This removes floppy disks support as it is not supported by any PPC64
>> system anyway as the only way to have floppy disk on such systems would
>> be an ISA bus and Linux kernels seems have never had such support.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
>
> I removed this patch from my queue again. The ppc64-softmmu target can
> execute -M PReP which in turn uses the fdc.


Out of curiosity - do you have actual 64bit guests being able to run on 
PReP? :) Current Linux ditched its support...


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>
> Alex
>
>> ---
>>
>> At the moment on POWERPC platform ISA bus depends on CHRP config option
>> which is so unsupported that it depends on 6xx config option which is not
>> defined anywhere in the kernel (there is PPC_6xx instead with PPC_ prefix).
>> ---
>>   default-configs/ppc64-softmmu.mak | 1 -
>>   1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/default-configs/ppc64-softmmu.mak b/default-configs/ppc64-softmmu.mak
>> index 2d97bdf..53f5c73 100644
>> --- a/default-configs/ppc64-softmmu.mak
>> +++ b/default-configs/ppc64-softmmu.mak
>> @@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ CONFIG_SERIAL=y
>>   CONFIG_PARALLEL=y
>>   CONFIG_I8254=y
>>   CONFIG_PCKBD=y
>> -CONFIG_FDC=y
>>   CONFIG_I8257=y
>>   CONFIG_I82374=y
>>   CONFIG_OPENPIC=y
>>


-- 
Alexey