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

[Peter Maydell]

On 24 January 2017 at 17:40, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> But is really lsi53c895a the best we can provide for
> versatilepb/versatileab/realview-eb/realview-eb-mpcore? Could virtio-pci
> work well too?...

I assume that people will still have legacy kernel images
which include the LSI drivers but not the virtio-pci drivers.
versatilepb in particular is pretty widely used as an example
ARM QEMU system (it was the sanest one before virt came along),
so there's a good chance of breaking a bunch of tutorials
and old images if you stop creating LSI devices.

More generally, I'd rather not spend any time at all messing
about with these old board models if they're not actually broken.

thanks
-- PMM