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From: Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
To: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins-Et1tbQHTxzrQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [kvm-commits] Revert "kvm: qemu: initialize ata ports as	enabled"
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:42:47 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <469E0AC7.1000903@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <469DCFDC0200005A00027C77-Igcdv/6uVdMHoYOw/+koYqIwWpluYiW7@public.gmane.org>

Gregory Haskins wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 12:20 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>   
>> repository: /home/avi/kvm
>> branch: master
>> commit a4d8dd22718d59fbdbaddaaed0b0e0c4664f397d
>> Author: Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
>> Date:   Wed Jul 18 12:20:41 2007 +0300
>>
>>     Revert "kvm: qemu: initialize ata ports as enabled"
>>     
>>     This reverts commit 55a3212bc2f5ecddcd4c5cdf2bfb37ad71e45ff2.  Turns out
>>     it was due to a bad bios and everything works as expectd.
>>     
>>     Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
>>     
>
> I'm not objecting to this change, but I am a little confused.  How does
> reverting this fix anything?  Are the ports supposed to be on or off?
> If turning them on causes things to slow down, what difference does it
> make who turns them on (bios or qemu)?  Sorry if I missed the
> conversation where this was already discussed.
>
>   

Good question.  I initially guessed that when the bios turns them on, it
does other things as well, but that's not the case.



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2007-07-18 12:31 [kvm-commits] Revert "kvm: qemu: initialize ata ports as enabled" Gregory Haskins
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2007-07-18 12:42   ` Avi Kivity [this message]
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2007-07-18 12:59 Gregory Haskins

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