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From: Malcolm Crossley <malcolm.crossley@citrix.com>
To: Fabio Fantoni <fabio.fantoni@m2r.biz>,
	Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, wei.liu2@citrix.com,
	Stefano.Stabellini@eu.citrix.com, George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com,
	Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com, Paul.Durrant@citrix.com,
	anthony.perard@citrix.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] libxl: Add AHCI support for upstream qemu
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 13:03:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <558BEE21.7090403@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <558BE2BC.2090304@m2r.biz>

On 25/06/15 12:15, Fabio Fantoni wrote:
> Il 25/06/2015 12:21, Ian Campbell ha scritto:
>> On Tue, 2015-06-23 at 11:15 +0200, Fabio Fantoni wrote:
>>> Usage:
>>> ahci=0|1 (default=0)
>> I think a global rather than per disk option is OK (I can't think why a
>> user would want to mix and match) but maybe we should consider using an
>> enum (with values ide and ahci, defaulting to ide in libxl) so that we
>> can add support for whatever fancy new disk controller everyone is using
>> in 5 years time?
> 
> ahci was added 4 years ago in qemu and I don't know of newer similar tecnology, in the case of enum
> probably shold be more generic for include more future possibility or I'm wrong? in that case what
> can be the name?
> @stabellini and other developer: any advice about this?

You may want to support nvme device interface as well. This would be the newer similar technology
you are referring to :)

      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-06-25 12:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-23  9:15 [PATCH v2] libxl: Add AHCI support for upstream qemu Fabio Fantoni
2015-06-23 11:32 ` Stefano Stabellini
2015-06-25 10:21 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-25 11:15   ` Fabio Fantoni
2015-06-25 11:58     ` Stefano Stabellini
2015-06-25 12:18       ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-26  7:55         ` Fabio Fantoni
2015-06-25 12:03     ` Malcolm Crossley [this message]

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