[Qemu-devel] Re: AHCI in SeaBIOS

[Alexander Graf]

Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 12:57:41AM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
>   
>> Hi Kevin,
>>
>> Do you remember why you put AHCI in with default=n? I'd like to see
>> it enabled in Qemu 0.14 and IIUC we use the default configuration
>> for that.
>>     
>
> Hi Alex,
>
> Sorry - I've gotten behind on emails.
>
> The reason for not enabling it by default was for two reasons - it had
> not been tested on real hardware, and it was unclear if doing the jump
> into 32bit mode would have adverse impact.
>   

Do you have to do the jump even when AHCI is unused? If no, it shouldn't
hurt, right?

Anthony, can we enable it only for the Qemu build?

>> Speaking of which - it would be awesome of we had a companion
>> SeaBIOS release with Qemu 0.14, so we don't have to fetch a random
>> git snapshot but potentially even could maintain a stable SeaBIOS
>> for during the lifetime of 0.14 :).
>>     
>
> It's about time to make a new release of seabios, so I'll see if that
> can be done in a week or so.
>   

Very nice, thank you! It would be great if we could sync that up with
the 0.14 release. Anthony?


Alex