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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
	Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, patches@linaro.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Drop default SD card creation
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:34:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201208161734.21604.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mx1u4yen.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org>

> One way is to treat the SD card as a hot-pluggable device.  A card
> reader device model provides a connector for the SD card device model.
> The SD card device model is backed by a block backend, with
> non-removable medium.  Card change is device hot plug.
>... 
> Note that we could model floppies and CD-ROMs that way, too.

That's a good point.  e.g. for a cdrom I'm pretty sure there's a bit somewhere 
that tells you whether it's a pressed cd or a cd-r.  Attaching this 
information to a cdrom-disk device (hotplugged into a cdrom-drive) seems to 
make sense.

Paul

  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-16 16:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-16 13:45 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Drop default SD card creation Peter Maydell
2012-08-16 13:45 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] omap: Get BlockDriverState* in mmc controller init, not board init Peter Maydell
2012-08-16 13:45 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] pxa2xx: " Peter Maydell
2012-08-16 13:45 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] Drop default SD card creation Peter Maydell
2012-08-16 14:11 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] " Markus Armbruster
2012-08-16 14:26   ` Peter Maydell
2012-08-16 14:56     ` Paul Brook
2012-08-16 15:17       ` Markus Armbruster
2012-08-16 15:24         ` Peter Maydell
2012-08-16 16:03           ` Markus Armbruster
2012-08-16 16:34             ` Paul Brook [this message]
2012-08-16 16:09           ` Paul Brook
2012-08-16 15:05     ` Markus Armbruster

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