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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/6] Q35: Implement -cdrom/-hda sugar


From: Markus Armbruster
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/6] Q35: Implement -cdrom/-hda sugar
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 08:36:42 +0200
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John Snow <address@hidden> writes:

> The Q35 board initialization does not currently bother to look
> for any drives added by the various syntactical sugar shorthands
> to be added to the AHCI HBA. These include -hda through -hdd,
> -cdrom, and -drive if=ide shorthands.
>
> An obstacle to having implemented this sooner is debate over
> whether or not to add an additional interface type, and how to
> manage the different units-per-bus mappings of various HBA
> implementations.
>
> This patch series:
> (1) Does not add IF_AHCI, but reuses IF_IDE
> (2) Allows the if_max_devs table to be overridden
> (3) Adds this override to the Q35 board type.
> (4) Finally, adds implementation to Q35 initialization.

Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <address@hidden>



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