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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 2/2] Split fdd devices off the floppy contro
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Kevin Wolf |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 2/2] Split fdd devices off the floppy controller |
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Mon, 14 May 2012 10:47:35 +0200 |
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Am 11.05.2012 17:22, schrieb Markus Armbruster:
> For historical reasons, and unlike other block devices, our floppy
> devices isa-fdc, sysbus-fdc and SUNW,fdtwo integrate the controller
> and the drive(s) in a single qdev. This makes them weird: we need
> -global to set up floppy drives, unlike every other optional device.
I like the idea of splitting the drives from the controller. In fact, I
think we could even try to split them into a separate hw/fdd.c
> Unfortunately, eliding the qbus means I can't make the floppy disk a
> qdev (sub-class of TYPE_DEVICE), because qdevs can only connect to a
> qbus. Anthony tells me that restriction is gone in his latest QOM
> series.
>
> Since it's not a qdev, -device fdd does not work. Pity, because it
> defeats the stated purpose of making floppy disk drives work like
> other existing optional devices.
As long as this is true, committing a patch like this doesn't help a
lot, so I hope Anthony's patches will go in before this is ready.
> Note: I *break* -global isa-fdc.driveA=... The properties are simply
> gone. Fixable if we need backwards compatibility there.
We might need it, I seem to remember that libvirt uses it.
Kevin
Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/2] Split fdd devices off the floppy controller, Markus Armbruster, 2012/05/11