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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/6] Q35: Implement -cdrom/-hda sugar


From: Stefan Hajnoczi
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/6] Q35: Implement -cdrom/-hda sugar
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 15:43:59 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12)

On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 02:19:23PM -0400, John Snow wrote:
> The Q35 board initialization does not currently bother to look
> for any drives added by the various syntactical sugar shorthands
> to be added to the AHCI HBA. These include -hda through -hdd,
> -cdrom, and -drive if=ide shorthands.
> 
> An obstacle to having implemented this sooner is debate over
> whether or not to add an additional interface type, and how to
> manage the different units-per-bus mappings of various HBA
> implementations.
> 
> This patch series:
> (1) Does not add IF_AHCI, but reuses IF_IDE
> (2) Allows the if_max_devs table to be overridden
> (3) Adds this override to the Q35 board type.
> (4) Finally, adds implementation to Q35 initialization.
> 
> History:
> 
> V3:
> 
> - renamed a variable for consistency ("tab" to "hd")
> - Now uses ARRAY_SIZE() for calls to ide_drive_get where applicable
> - Re-added a call to exit() for the error pathway of ide_drive_get
> - Adjusted drive_get_max_devs semantics to be similar to drive_get_max_bus
>   and added documentation
> - Removed any possibility of a divide-by-zero in ide_drive_get
> 
> V2:
> - Adjusted language in patch #1's commit message.
>   (drive if=none will NOT trigger warnings)
> - Removed superfluous warning with bad phrasing in patch #1
> - Removed if_get_max_devs from patch #2 and added to patch #4
> - Added an assertion to patch #2
> - Added more detail to patch #3's commit message
> - Specified that Patch #3 will affect old Q35 machine types
> - Changed fprintf to error_report in patch #4
> - Replaced max_bus parameter in ide_drive_get with 'n', size of array
> - Updated calls to ide_drive_get in other boards
> - Adjusted language in patch #6's commit message.
>   (Removed reference to patch #5.)
> 
> V1:
> - Re-uses ide_drive_get instead of ahci_drive_get
> - Adds units-per-bus property to all Q35 machines
> - Changes orphan scanning to exclude IF_NONE and
>   automatically added drives
> - Renames 'units-per-idebus' to 'units-per-default-bus'
>   And allows override of any one IF type (block_default)
> 
> RFC2:
> - Rewrote series to avoid the creation of IF_AHCI.
> 
> John Snow (6):
>   blockdev: Orphaned drive search
>   blockdev: Allow overriding if_max_dev property
>   pc/vl: Add units-per-default-bus property
>   ide: Update ide_drive_get to be HBA agnostic
>   qtest/bios-tables: Correct Q35 command line
>   q35/ahci: Pick up -cdrom and -hda options
> 
>  blockdev.c                | 64 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  hw/alpha/dp264.c          |  2 +-
>  hw/i386/pc.c              |  1 +
>  hw/i386/pc_piix.c         |  2 +-
>  hw/i386/pc_q35.c          |  7 +++++-
>  hw/ide/ahci.c             | 15 +++++++++++
>  hw/ide/ahci.h             |  2 ++
>  hw/ide/core.c             | 22 ++++++++++++----
>  hw/mips/mips_fulong2e.c   |  2 +-
>  hw/mips/mips_malta.c      |  2 +-
>  hw/mips/mips_r4k.c        |  2 +-
>  hw/ppc/mac_newworld.c     |  2 +-
>  hw/ppc/mac_oldworld.c     |  2 +-
>  hw/ppc/prep.c             |  2 +-
>  hw/sparc64/sun4u.c        |  2 +-
>  include/hw/boards.h       |  2 ++
>  include/sysemu/blockdev.h |  5 ++++
>  tests/bios-tables-test.c  | 10 +++-----
>  vl.c                      | 18 ++++++++++++-
>  19 files changed, 141 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 1.9.3
> 
> 

Thanks, applied to my block tree:
https://github.com/stefanha/qemu/commits/block

Stefan

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