From: Paul Jakma <paul@clubi.ie>
To: sol10x86@cox.net, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] PATCH: floppy controller missing in acpi tables
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2006 11:08:56 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606031205390.22571@sheen.jakma.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22186244.1147790858160.JavaMail.root@eastrmwml07.mgt.cox.net>
On Tue, 16 May 2006, Ben Taylor wrote:
> This patch was created by Juergen Kiel, so to be clear I did not
> make this patch. I did however, test it, with the current CVS code,
> and this patch to the ACPI tables does allow a floppy drive to be
> seen by a Solaris 10/X86 guest.
> Prior to this time, changes in Solaris 10 do not correctly
> enumerate the ISA bus for the floppy, and therefore you could never
> add an Install Time Update (ITU), such as the DiskUpdate on
> tools.de/solaris/itu/DU.zip which has a modifed RTL8029 driver that
> works with Qemu on SolarisX86.
> Note: the file hw/acpi-dsdt.hex must be rebuilt using Intel's "iasl"
> ACPI compiler. In the hw directory, run "iasl -tc acpi-dsdt.dsl". That
> should build the acpi-dsdt.hex file from acpi-dsdt.dsl.
Ah, someone fixed this - great.
I hope this makes it into Qemu soon.
regards,
--
Paul Jakma paul@clubi.ie paul@jakma.org Key ID: 64A2FF6A
Fortune:
Vests are to suits as seat-belts are to cars.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-03 11:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-16 14:47 [Qemu-devel] PATCH: floppy controller missing in acpi tables Ben Taylor
2006-06-03 11:08 ` Paul Jakma [this message]
2006-06-12 15:20 ` Paul Jakma
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2006-06-13 1:20 Ben Taylor
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