Re: [PATCH v5 2/6] hw/sd/sdcard: Allow user-instantiated eMMC

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 02:03:54PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
> 
> Enable user-instantiation so that PCI-attached eMMCs can be created for
> virt machines, for QA purposes for the eMMC model itself and for complex
> firmware/OS integrations using the upcoming RPMB partition support.

IIUC, the 'emmc' device wants an 'sd-bus' but this commit talks about
it being PCI-attached ?

Can you elaborate on / illustrate the usage example for an end user ?

> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
> ---
>  hw/sd/sd.c | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/sd/sd.c b/hw/sd/sd.c
> index d1e1bb4f0e..305ea251cb 100644
> --- a/hw/sd/sd.c
> +++ b/hw/sd/sd.c
> @@ -2928,8 +2928,6 @@ static void emmc_class_init(ObjectClass *klass, const void *data)
>      dc->desc = "eMMC";
>      dc->realize = emmc_realize;
>      device_class_set_props(dc, emmc_properties);
> -    /* Reason: Soldered on board */
> -    dc->user_creatable = false;
>  
>      sc->proto = &sd_proto_emmc;
>  
> -- 
> 2.51.0
> 
> 

With regards,
Daniel
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