Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: AHCI in SeaBIOS

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On 02/10/2011 04:25 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> Kevin O'Connor wrote:
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>> On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 12:57:41AM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>
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>>> Hi Kevin,
>>>
>>> Do you remember why you put AHCI in with default=n? I'd like to see
>>> it enabled in Qemu 0.14 and IIUC we use the default configuration
>>> for that.
>>>
>>>        
>> Hi Alex,
>>
>> Sorry - I've gotten behind on emails.
>>
>> The reason for not enabling it by default was for two reasons - it had
>> not been tested on real hardware, and it was unclear if doing the jump
>> into 32bit mode would have adverse impact.
>>
>>      
> Do you have to do the jump even when AHCI is unused? If no, it shouldn't
> hurt, right?
>
> Anthony, can we enable it only for the Qemu build?
>
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>>> Speaking of which - it would be awesome of we had a companion
>>> SeaBIOS release with Qemu 0.14, so we don't have to fetch a random
>>> git snapshot but potentially even could maintain a stable SeaBIOS
>>> for during the lifetime of 0.14 :).
>>>
>>>        
>> It's about time to make a new release of seabios, so I'll see if that
>> can be done in a week or so.
>>
>>      
> Very nice, thank you! It would be great if we could sync that up with
> the 0.14 release. Anthony?
>    

We're right around the corner from -rc2 so let's wait until after 0.14 
is released so we have a full release cycle to test it.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Alex
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