Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] hw/i386/i386: Stop auto-creating lsi53c895a SCSI HBAs

[Markus Armbruster]

Peter Maydell <address@hidden> writes:

> On 24 January 2017 at 17:40, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
>> But is really lsi53c895a the best we can provide for
>> versatilepb/versatileab/realview-eb/realview-eb-mpcore? Could virtio-pci
>> work well too?...
>
> I assume that people will still have legacy kernel images
> which include the LSI drivers but not the virtio-pci drivers.
> versatilepb in particular is pretty widely used as an example
> ARM QEMU system (it was the sanest one before virt came along),
> so there's a good chance of breaking a bunch of tutorials
> and old images if you stop creating LSI devices.
>
> More generally, I'd rather not spend any time at all messing
> about with these old board models if they're not actually broken.

Okay, I'll keep adding lsi devices for if=scsi drives with these four
machine types.