[Qemu-devel] Re: AHCI in SeaBIOS

[Alexander Graf]

Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 04:25:11PM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
>   
>> Kevin O'Connor wrote:
>>     
>>> On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 12:57:41AM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>>       
>>>> 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.
>>>>         
>>> 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?
>>     
>
> The 32bit jump is only done if an AHCI drive is found and one tries to
> read/write to it.
>   

Very good, so it really shouldn't hurt. We could add another option that
only kicks off the detection when Qemu is found, no? That way we're sure
to not break real hardware, but have the functionality in Qemu :)


Alex