From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: Gerhard Wiesinger <lists@wiesinger.com>
Cc: Brian Jackson <iggy@theiggy.com>,
Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] XP install cores with SCSI LSI 53C895A disks
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 08:20:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F59AF52.7070206@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1203090726290.22212@bbs.intern>
Hi,
>>> #2 isn't an issue actually, at least for Debian users --
>>
>> Well, it is, to some degree. Because vanilla upstream doesn't support
>> booting from lsi it has alot less users and alot less regression testing
>> (like autotest runs of lsi-scsi installs), which sums up to more bugs
>> staying unnoticed like the one which triggered this thread.
>
> What's the holdup to integrate it into QEMU?
Extboot is considered obsolete and thus several attempts to merge it
into upstream qemu failed. It started its life as hack to allow
qemu-kvm boot from virtio-blk devices, which happened to work for lsi
too. virtio-blk is supported by seabios natively these days.
Adding lsi support to seabios shouldn't be that hard. Paolo paved the
way by restructing the existing scsi disk/cdrom bits in seabios so they
work for both usb-storage and virtio-scsi. Adding support for yet
another scsi hba should be easy, all the support bits for handling disks
and booting from cdrom are there already.
It just needs someone to sit down for a week or two and hack it up.
cheers,
Gerd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-09 7:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-04 20:13 [Qemu-devel] XP install cores with SCSI LSI 53C895A disks Gerhard Wiesinger
2012-03-07 6:41 ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2012-03-07 14:51 ` Brian Jackson
2012-03-07 19:58 ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2012-03-08 7:44 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2012-03-08 8:54 ` Michael Tokarev
2012-03-08 10:07 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2012-03-09 6:28 ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2012-03-09 7:20 ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2012-03-09 7:46 ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2012-03-09 8:08 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-03-09 6:25 ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2012-03-09 6:18 ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2012-03-09 7:35 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2012-03-09 8:00 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-03-09 11:50 ` Kevin O'Connor
2012-03-09 16:48 ` Brian Jackson
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