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From: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon <carenas@sajinet.com.pe>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RESEND] [PATCH] ide: fix GET_CONFIGURATION DVD-ROM support
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 20:06:47 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080105020647.GB20718@tapir> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080105010230.GA2230@miranda.arrow>

On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 01:02:30AM +0000, Stuart Brady wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 06:25:25PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
> > On Friday 04 January 2008 04:02:07 Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon wrote:
> > 
> > > > -            buf[7] = total_sectors <= 1433600 ? 0x08 : 0x10; /* current
> > > > profile */
> > 
> > Where does the constant come from, anyway?
> 
> 1433600?  Seems it's the number of 512 KiB blocks in a 700 MiB CD image 
> (700 * 1024 * 2).

yes, that magic constant corresponds to the maximum expected size for a CD-ROM
and is used to detect if the profile used should be for DVD-ROM or not.

It came from the original implementation patch for "GET CONFIGURATION" 
committed in revision 1.66 of ide.c by Filip Navarra as 
"Partial IDE DVD emulation"

http://cvs.savannah.nongnu.org/viewvc/qemu/hw/ide.c?root=qemu&r1=1.65&r2=1.66

Carlo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-05  1:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-26  7:36 [Qemu-devel] [RESEND] [PATCH] ide: fix GET_CONFIGURATION DVD-ROM support Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
2008-01-04 10:02 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
2008-01-05  0:25   ` Rob Landley
2008-01-05  1:02     ` Stuart Brady
2008-01-05  1:57       ` Stuart Brady
2008-01-05  2:06       ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon [this message]
2008-01-05  3:53       ` Rob Landley
2008-01-05 10:28         ` Stuart Brady
2008-01-06  2:22           ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
2008-01-06 13:57             ` Stuart Brady
2008-01-06 14:32               ` Andreas Färber
2008-01-07  0:38                 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
2008-01-07  0:23               ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
2008-01-05  3:36     ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
2008-01-06  9:22       ` Rob Landley
2008-01-07  4:47         ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon

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