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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU block layer todo list
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To: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Beno=EEt?= Canet <benoit.canet@irqsave.net>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>, Ekaterina Tumanova <tumanova@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>, Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>, John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>, Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>

The Wednesday 20 Aug 2014 =E0 09:57:39 (+0200), Christian Borntraeger wro=
te :
> On 19/08/14 16:20, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > The following wiki page contains a list of proposed tasks for the QEM=
U
> > block layer:
> >=20
> > http://qemu-project.org/Features/Block/Todo
> >=20
> > Benoit requested that we make the todo list viewable/editable.  This
> > is a good idea as it helps us focus and see what other developers are
> > thinking about.
> >=20
> > There is no requirement to put tasks on the wiki.  Just sending
> > patches or discussing on the mailing list is fine.
> >=20
> > The todo list is useful for large tasks or anything which cannot be
> > completed within a couple of weeks.  That way the tasks will not be
> > forgotten.
> >=20
> > You can subscribe to the wiki changes RSS feed to follow edits:
> > http://qemu-project.org/index.php?title=3DSpecial:RecentChanges&feed=3D=
rss
> >=20
> > Stefan
> >=20
>=20
> I would like to add geometry and block size passthrough for host device=
s. See
> the patches from Ekaterina Tumanova.
> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-07/msg03791.html
>=20
> On s390 we have a stricter requirement of passing through geometry and =
block size for DASD disk devices as this geometry is more than a imaginar=
y number triplet. It is required for proper partition detection and is ac=
tually a property of the real (or better emulated on storage servers like=
 DS8x000) disk.

I added this to the list.

Best regards

Beno=EEt

>=20
> Christian
>=20
>=20