From: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
To: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, stefanha@redhat.com,
mst@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] Q35: Implement -cdrom/-hda sugar
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 17:32:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d2alm3v0.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1411490885-29782-1-git-send-email-jsnow@redhat.com> (John Snow's message of "Tue, 23 Sep 2014 12:47:59 -0400")
John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> writes:
> The Q35 board initialization does not currently bother to look
> for any drives added by the various syntactical sugar shorthands
> to be added to the AHCI HBA. These include -hda through -hdd,
> -cdrom, and -drive if=ide shorthands.
>
> An obstacle to having implemented this sooner is debate over
> whether or not to add an additional interface type, and how to
> manage the different units-per-bus mappings of various HBA
> implementations.
>
> This patch series:
> (1) Does not add IF_AHCI, but reuses IF_IDE
> (2) Allows the if_max_devs table to be overridden
> (3) Adds this override to the Q35 board type.
> (4) Finally, adds implementation to Q35 initialization.
I'm pleased with your solution, and I think it's almost ready for merge.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-24 15:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-23 16:47 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] Q35: Implement -cdrom/-hda sugar John Snow
2014-09-23 16:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/6] blockdev: Orphaned drive search John Snow
2014-09-24 14:06 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-09-24 22:36 ` John Snow
2014-09-23 16:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/6] blockdev: Allow overriding if_max_dev property John Snow
2014-09-24 14:10 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-09-23 16:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/6] pc/vl: Add units-per-default-bus property John Snow
2014-09-24 14:25 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-09-23 16:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/6] ide: Update ide_drive_get to be HBA agnostic John Snow
2014-09-24 14:35 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-09-24 16:49 ` John Snow
2014-09-25 6:13 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-09-26 16:34 ` John Snow
2014-09-27 8:41 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-09-23 16:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/6] qtest/bios-tables: Correct Q35 command line John Snow
2014-09-23 16:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] q35/ahci: Pick up -cdrom and -hda options John Snow
2014-09-24 15:08 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-09-24 15:30 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-09-24 15:32 ` Markus Armbruster [this message]
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