Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] hw/i386/i386: Stop auto-creating lsi53c895a SCSI HBAs

[Peter Maydell]

On 24 January 2017 at 17:20, Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> wrote:
> Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On 24/01/2017 13:56, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>>> So, what do we want to deprecate?
>>>
>>> I think the onboard SCSI HBA adopting if=scsi drives should stay,
>>> because it matches what we do for other interface types.  Unless we
>>> wanted to deprecate interface types other than none entirely.
>>
>> Yes, of course.
>>
>>> What about realview and versatile auto-creating lsi53c895a?
>>
>> That should go.
>
> Peter, do you agree?

I'm not sure what you're suggesting deprecation of -- will
command lines like
 "qemu-system-arm -M versatilepb -hda somedisk.qcow2"
still work (ie auto-create the LSI scsi adaptor and plug
the disk into it) ?

thanks
-- PMM