Re: [kvm-commits] Revert "kvm: qemu: initialize ata ports as enabled"

Gregory Haskins
2007-07-18T12:31:24Z

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.

-Greg