From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
To: Khalid Aziz <khalid@gonehiking.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>,
Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>,
"open list:IOMMU DRIVERS" <iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
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Matt Wang <wwentao@vmware.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] scsi: remove stale BusLogic driver
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2022 10:19:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK8P3a3dfTNS4m-SVa1UH+ncT7ZOcMBRaEc7TiO9R19J3KNSxg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d39fc9bb-07c1-ad74-1e89-d2aa80578cd4@gonehiking.org>
On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 6:35 PM Khalid Aziz <khalid@gonehiking.org> wrote:
> On 6/6/22 02:41, Arnd Bergmann wrote: From: Arnd Bergmann<arnd@arndb.de>
>
> I would say no to removing BusLogic driver. Virtualbox is another
> consumer of this driver. This driver is very old but I would rather fix
> the issues than remove it until we do not have any users.
Maciej already offered to help fix the driver, so I think it will be ok.
On the other hand, it sounds like VirtualBox users should not actually try to
use the BusLogic driver with modern Linux guests. From what I can tell
from the documentation [1], VirtualBox only provides this emulation because it
was shipped with early versions of VMware and is supported by Windows 2000
and earlier, but not actually on any modern Windows guest. The VMware
documentation in turn explicitly says that BusLogic does not work with 64-bit
guests [2], presumably this applies to both Windows and Linux guests.
Arnd
[1] https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch05.html#harddiskcontrollers
[2] https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2010470
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-08 9:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-06 8:41 [PATCH 0/6] phase out CONFIG_VIRT_TO_BUS Arnd Bergmann
2022-06-06 8:41 ` [PATCH 1/6] vme: remove ca91cx42 Universe-II support Arnd Bergmann
2022-06-06 8:41 ` [PATCH 2/6] vme: move back to staging Arnd Bergmann
2022-06-06 8:41 ` [PATCH 3/6] media: sta2x11: remove VIRT_TO_BUS dependency Arnd Bergmann
2022-06-06 8:41 ` [PATCH 4/6] scsi: dpt_i2o: drop stale " Arnd Bergmann
2022-06-06 8:41 ` [PATCH 6/6] arch/*/: remove CONFIG_VIRT_TO_BUS Arnd Bergmann
2022-06-07 7:29 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-06-07 12:33 ` Michael Ellerman
2022-06-06 9:25 ` [PATCH 0/6] phase out CONFIG_VIRT_TO_BUS Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-06-06 15:01 ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-06-07 9:09 ` Martyn Welch
[not found] ` <20220606084109.4108188-6-arnd@kernel.org>
2022-06-06 10:40 ` [PATCH 5/6] scsi: remove stale BusLogic driver Maciej W. Rozycki
2022-06-06 15:00 ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-06-06 16:35 ` Khalid Aziz
2022-06-08 8:19 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
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