Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] [PATCH v3 3/4] geometry: Add boot_lchs_find_*() utility functions

[Sam Eiderman]

Kevin,

Rethinking this change (where we construct the device path from outside and 
call boot_prio_find()),
this is pretty tricky to implement since we need to take care of 
csm_bootprio_ata() and
csm_bootprio_pci() which do not work with device path.
In addition,
        bootprio_find_fdc_device
        bootprio_find_pci_rom
        bootprio_find_named_rom
        bootprio_find_usb
Will not require this change and this will just result in too much refactoring.

Maybe simply introduce build_scsi_path() and build_ata_path() functions and 
then,
for instance, make booprio_find_scsi_device() and boot_lchs_find_scsi_device()
call the same build_scsi_path() function, resulting in less code duplication.

Sam


> On 22 Jun 2019, at 20:33, Sam Eiderman <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On 22 Jun 2019, at 18:27, Kevin O'Connor <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 11:51:48AM +0300, Sam Eiderman wrote:
>>> But maybe someone wants bootorder but doesn’t want to override legacy disk 
>>> translations…
>>> 
>>> I’m thinking of maybe adding
>>> 
>>> if (!CONFIG_BOOTORDER || !CONFIG_BIOS_GEOMETRY)
>>>   return NULL;
>> 
>> That's fine - though it's (!CONFIG_BOOTORDER && !CONFIG_BIOS_GEOMETRY).
> 
> Yes of course, my bad
> 
>> 
>> FYI, I think BIOS_GEOMETRY is a little confusing - maybe
>> CUSTOM_DISK_GEOMETRY.
> 
> The thing is that disk geometry is actually (physical geometry, reported by 
> the disk controller) and here
> bios geometry stands for the geometry reported from bios int13.
> Also “bios geometry” === “logical geometry” === “lchs”.
> So following previous discussion with Gerd, maybe CONFIG_HOST_BIOS_GEOMETRY 
> is better?
> 
> Sam
> 
>> 
>> -Kevin
>