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

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 24/01/2017 18:24, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 24 January 2017 at 17:20, Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> On 24/01/2017 13:56, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>>>> So, what do we want to deprecate?
>>>>
>>>> I think the onboard SCSI HBA adopting if=scsi drives should stay,
>>>> because it matches what we do for other interface types.  Unless we
>>>> wanted to deprecate interface types other than none entirely.
>>>
>>> Yes, of course.
>>>
>>>> What about realview and versatile auto-creating lsi53c895a?
>>>
>>> That should go.
>>
>> Peter, do you agree?
> 
> I'm not sure what you're suggesting deprecation of -- will
> command lines like
>  "qemu-system-arm -M versatilepb -hda somedisk.qcow2"
> still work (ie auto-create the LSI scsi adaptor and plug
> the disk into it) ?

No, I was confusing with the boards that Markus is fixing in patch 4.
But is really lsi53c895a the best we can provide for
versatilepb/versatileab/realview-eb/realview-eb-mpcore? Could virtio-pci
work well too?...

Paolo