From: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Qemu-block <qemu-block@nongnu.org>,
"Michael S . Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] hw/i386/i386: Stop auto-creating lsi53c895a SCSI HBAs
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 19:43:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8737g8z4bv.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA_Ugd+4C8yoaWbK7nR+U3NOzJPHQKmg_47kC40qdq9qgA@mail.gmail.com> (Peter Maydell's message of "Tue, 24 Jan 2017 17:58:38 +0000")
Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:
> On 24 January 2017 at 17:40, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>> But is really lsi53c895a the best we can provide for
>> versatilepb/versatileab/realview-eb/realview-eb-mpcore? Could virtio-pci
>> work well too?...
>
> I assume that people will still have legacy kernel images
> which include the LSI drivers but not the virtio-pci drivers.
> versatilepb in particular is pretty widely used as an example
> ARM QEMU system (it was the sanest one before virt came along),
> so there's a good chance of breaking a bunch of tutorials
> and old images if you stop creating LSI devices.
>
> More generally, I'd rather not spend any time at all messing
> about with these old board models if they're not actually broken.
Okay, I'll keep adding lsi devices for if=scsi drives with these four
machine types.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-24 18:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-23 9:48 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] More sensible default for -drive interface type Markus Armbruster
2017-01-23 9:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/6] hw: Default -drive to if=ide explicitly where it works Markus Armbruster
2017-01-23 9:48 ` [Qemu-arm] [PATCH 2/6] hw/arm/cubieboard hw/arm/xlnx-ep108: Fix units_per_default_bus Markus Armbruster
2017-01-23 9:48 ` [Qemu-devel] " Markus Armbruster
2017-01-23 9:48 ` [Qemu-arm] [PATCH 3/6] hw: Default -drive to if=none instead of ide when ide cannot work Markus Armbruster
2017-01-23 9:48 ` Markus Armbruster
2017-01-23 9:48 ` [Qemu-devel] " Markus Armbruster
2017-01-23 12:24 ` Artyom Tarasenko
2017-01-23 9:48 ` [Qemu-arm] [PATCH 4/6] hw: Default -drive to if=none instead of scsi when scsi " Markus Armbruster
2017-01-23 9:48 ` [Qemu-devel] " Markus Armbruster
2017-01-23 9:48 ` [Qemu-arm] [PATCH 5/6] hw/arm/highbank: Default -drive to if=ide instead of if=scsi Markus Armbruster
2017-01-23 9:48 ` [Qemu-devel] " Markus Armbruster
2017-01-23 9:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] hw/i386/i386: Stop auto-creating lsi53c895a SCSI HBAs Markus Armbruster
2017-01-23 16:48 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-01-23 19:16 ` Markus Armbruster
2017-01-24 11:17 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-01-24 12:56 ` Markus Armbruster
2017-01-24 13:01 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-01-24 17:20 ` Markus Armbruster
2017-01-24 17:24 ` Peter Maydell
2017-01-24 17:40 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-01-24 17:58 ` Peter Maydell
2017-01-24 18:43 ` Markus Armbruster [this message]
2017-01-25 16:45 ` Markus Armbruster
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