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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix IDE FDC emulation for no media


From: Pavel Hrdina
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix IDE FDC emulation for no media
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 12:01:43 +0200
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On 04/26/2012 05:13 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
Pavel Hrdina<address@hidden>  writes:

Hi,
this is the patch to fix incorrect handling of IDE floppy drive controller 
emulation
when no media is present. If the guest is booted without a media then the drive
was not being emulated at all but this patch enables the emulation with no 
media present.

There was a bug in FDC emulation without media. Driver was not able to 
recognize that
there is no media in drive.

This has been tested on both Fedora-16 x86_64 VM and Windows XP VM and the 
behaviour
is as expected, i.e. as follows:

Linux guest (Fedora 16 x86_64) tries "mount /dev/fd0" and exit with error
"mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device" which is the same behavior like
bare metal with real floppy device (you have to load floppy driver at first
using e.g. "modprobe floppy" command).

For Windows XP guest the Windows floppy driver is trying to seek the virtual 
drive
when you want to open it but driver successfully detect that there is no media 
in drive
and then it's asking user to insert floppy media in the drive.

I also tested behavior of this patch if you start guest with "-nodefaults" and 
both
Windows and Linux guests detect only FDC but no drive.

Pavel
As Andreas already pointed out, your commit message needs work.  Please
limit line length to 70 characters.

This patch has been written with help of specifications from:
http://www.ousob.com/ng/hardware/ngd127.php
http://www.isdaman.com/alsos/hardware/fdc/floppy.htm
http://wiki.osdev.org/Floppy_Disk_Controller

Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina<address@hidden>
Signed-off-by: Michal Novotny<address@hidden>
---
  hw/fdc.c |   14 ++++++++++----
  hw/pc.c  |    3 ++-
  2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hw/fdc.c b/hw/fdc.c
index a0236b7..6791eff 100644
--- a/hw/fdc.c
+++ b/hw/fdc.c
@@ -179,12 +179,14 @@ static void fd_revalidate(FDrive *drv)
      FDriveRate rate;

      FLOPPY_DPRINTF("revalidate\n");
-    if (drv->bs != NULL&&  bdrv_is_inserted(drv->bs)) {
+    if (drv->bs != NULL) {
          ro = bdrv_is_read_only(drv->bs);
          bdrv_get_floppy_geometry_hint(drv->bs,&nb_heads,&max_track,
                                        &last_sect, drv->drive,&drive,&rate);
-        if (nb_heads != 0&&  max_track != 0&&  last_sect != 0) {
-            FLOPPY_DPRINTF("User defined disk (%d %d %d)",
+        if (!bdrv_is_inserted(drv->bs)) {
+            FLOPPY_DPRINTF("No media in drive\n");
+        } else if (nb_heads != 0&&  max_track != 0&&  last_sect != 0) {
+            FLOPPY_DPRINTF("User defined disk (%d %d %d)\n",
                             nb_heads - 1, max_track, last_sect);
          } else {
              FLOPPY_DPRINTF("Floppy disk (%d h %d t %d s) %s\n", nb_heads,
@@ -201,11 +203,12 @@ static void fd_revalidate(FDrive *drv)
          drv->drive = drive;
          drv->media_rate = rate;
      } else {
-        FLOPPY_DPRINTF("No disk in drive\n");
+        FLOPPY_DPRINTF("Drive disabled\n");
          drv->last_sect = 0;
          drv->max_track = 0;
          drv->flags&= ~FDISK_DBL_SIDES;
      }
+
  }

  /********************************************************/
@@ -937,6 +940,9 @@ static int fdctrl_media_changed(FDrive *drv)

      if (!drv->bs)
          return 0;
+    /* This is needed for driver to detect there is no media in drive */
+    if (!bdrv_is_inserted(drv->bs))
+        return 1;
      if (drv->media_changed) {
          drv->media_changed = 0;
          ret = 1;
diff --git a/hw/pc.c b/hw/pc.c
index 1f5aacb..29a604b 100644
--- a/hw/pc.c
+++ b/hw/pc.c
@@ -382,7 +382,8 @@ void pc_cmos_init(ram_addr_t ram_size, ram_addr_t 
above_4g_mem_size,
      if (floppy) {
          fdc_get_bs(fd, floppy);
          for (i = 0; i<  2; i++) {
-            if (fd[i]&&  bdrv_is_inserted(fd[i])) {
+            /* If there is no media in a drive, we still have the drive 
present */
This comment explains why you remove bdrv_is_inserted().  It makes no
sense once its gone.

+            if (fd[i]) {
                  bdrv_get_floppy_geometry_hint(fd[i],&nb_heads,&max_track,
                                                &last_sect, FDRIVE_DRV_NONE,
                                                &fd_type[i],&rate);
This fixes the CMOS floppy initialization bug I described elsewhere in
the thread, because bdrv_get_floppy_geometry_hint() picks FDRIVE_DRV_144
when its bs argument is empty.

Are you sure the patches to fdc.c are necessary to fix the bug you're
seeing?  To be honest, I doubt it.
Hi Markus,

yes, you are right that this is only needed to fix that bug and fixes to fdc.c in this patch isn't necessary to fix this bug.

But I also need to fix media detection behaviour in fdc.c otherwise windows guest will print error message while opening floppy drive and kernel guest ends with kernel panic while mounting floppy drive.

I have already started rewriting this patch.

Pavel



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