From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FmU00-0000f6-JA for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2006 07:08:56 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FmTzy-0000eq-BD for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2006 07:08:55 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FmTzy-0000en-5K for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2006 07:08:54 -0400 Received: from [212.17.55.49] (helo=hibernia.jakma.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FmU6d-0005Ar-NV for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2006 07:15:48 -0400 From: Paul Jakma Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] PATCH: floppy controller missing in acpi tables In-Reply-To: <22186244.1147790858160.JavaMail.root@eastrmwml07.mgt.cox.net> Message-ID: References: <22186244.1147790858160.JavaMail.root@eastrmwml07.mgt.cox.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2006 11:08:56 -0000 To: sol10x86@cox.net, qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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.