Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for tuesday 31

[Alexander Graf]

On 10.02.2012, at 00:17, Andreas Färber wrote:

> Am 09.02.2012 23:37, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
>> On 02/09/2012 04:23 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>> Ping re the VMState and variable sized arrays issue. I don't
>>> see any consensus in this discussion for a different approach,
>>> so should we just commit Mitsyanko's patchset?
>> 
>> I don't know if I mentioned this, but do we really need variable sizes?
> 
> You didn't in this context. :)
> 
> I didn't write the original code so don't know what use cases beyond
> ICH9 it had in mind. Alex?

I'm having a hard time to grasp the question. AHCI is basically the spec to 
specific implementations. ICH9 implements AHCI, just like Nehalem implements 
x86. There are other chips out there that also implement AHCI.

As long as we don't need any other, I don't think it'd make sense to add more 
AHCI consumers, but I certainly don't want to block the road in case someone 
needs it. There are AHCI implementations for ARM for example. Didn't the 
Calxeda guys hack on something there?


Alex