Re: [PATCH v2 4/8] hw/boards: Remove all invalid uses of auto_create_sdcard=true

["Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>]

On 5/2/25 08:03, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org> writes:
> 
>> MachineClass::auto_create_sdcard is only useful to automatically
>> create a SD card, attach a IF_SD block drive to it and plug the
>> card onto a SD bus. Only the ARM and RISCV targets use such
>> feature:
>>
>>   $ git grep -wl IF_SD hw | cut -d/ -f-2 | sort -u
>>   hw/arm
>>   hw/riscv
>>   $
>>
>> Remove all other uses.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
> 
> Impact?
> 
> As far as I can tell, this stops creation of the if=sd default drive
> these machines don't actually use.  Correct?
> 

Yes, since these machines don't expose a SD-bus, the drive can
not be attached and always triggers the same error:

$ qemu-system-hppa -sd /bin/sh
qemu-system-hppa: -sd /bin/sh: machine type does not support 
if=sd,bus=0,unit=0