From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IzMAt-0007Uu-4w for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:02:11 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IzMAq-0007Sv-Ju for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:02:10 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IzMAq-0007Sk-Du for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:02:08 -0500 Received: from mail.codesourcery.com ([65.74.133.4]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IzMAp-00022F-V1 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:02:08 -0500 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu vl.c hw/omap.c Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 01:02:02 +0000 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200712040102.03664.paul@codesourcery.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org > Log message: > Always create an SD bdrv, so that PXA and OMAP boards can boot with > no card inserted again. Eventually SD, CDROM and floppy should all > be registered conditionally depending on machine. This seems the wrong way to solve this problem. The SD emulation should be able to cope with no device being present. The general case should be a hotplugable interface, with cold-plug interfaces (e.g. IDE harddrives) being the exception. Paul