Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/6] hw/ppc/spapr: simplify usb controller creation logic

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 07/01/2015 12:15, Alexander Graf wrote:
> 
> 
> On 07.01.15 12:07, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 07/01/2015 12:03, Marcel Apfelbaum wrote:
>>>
>>> While I agree it will be better if we place this in instance_init,
>>> setting the machine_usb to defaults_enabled() there would be problematic
>>> since it depends on
>>>  - papr_vga_init(phb->bus) for sparpr and
>>
>> That's effectively vga_interface_type == VGA_DEVICE ||
>> vga_interface_type == VGA_STD.
>>
>>>  - (PPC_INPUT(env) == PPC_FLAGS_INPUT_970) for mac99.
>>>    (The env itself is set in machine_init)
>>
>> Alex, why is auto-USB disabled for 6xx?  Can it use vga_interface_type
>> like spapr does?
> 
> That one's a nasty hack. We basically have 2 different machine types
> that we expose as a single type to the user: mac99. In reality there's a
> 64bit mac99 and a 32bit mac99.
> 
> 32bit mac99 can expose keyboard and mouse via a special apple bus. That
> driver doesn't work with 64bit Linux guests though, so there we need USB.
> 
> Thinking about it, maybe the best way forward would be to create 2
> machine types out of these. Have a mac99 (32bit) and a mac99-g5 target
> where the g5 target defaults to -cpu G5 and USB enabled.
> 
> All of this is pretty frankenstein btw. What we would really want for a
> G5 guest is something built around U3 or U4, not the U1 that -M mac99
> exposes.

Hmm, then I guess let's apply these patches and fix things up later?

Paolo