Re: [PATCH 0/5] qemu: IDE/ATAPI emulation reliability fixes

[Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon wrote:
> The following patch series implements fixes to the IDE/ATAPI emulation
> in qemu which are already committed upstream or proposed for inclusion; 
> including 2 serious regressions that result in availability and data loss
> problems when using OpenSolaris or FreeBSD guests (at least) by the first 2:
>
>   Patch 1/5 : fixes GET_CONFIGURATION to allow OpenSolaris cdrom access 
>   Patch 2/5 : fixes IDE sector write operations resulting in data lost
>   Patch 3/5 : enables ACPI interrupts
>   Patch 4/5 : uses DVD-ROM as model name for INQUIRY and IDENTIFY DEVICE
>   Patch 5/5 : removes obsolete triton chip support
>
> They had been tested in Gentoo Linux 2007.0 amd64 using an Intel Core 2
> 6320 host and several different versions of FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Linux,
> OpenSolaris and Windows 2000 guests
>
>   

Thanks; the last time I tried to merge qemu I had several regressions. 
I'll try again soon once these are merged (or merge them myself if
qemu-devel takes too long).


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Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.


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