On Tuesday 04 December 2007, andrzej zaborowski wrote: > On 04/12/2007, Paul Brook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Log message: > > > Always create an SD bdrv, so that PXA and OMAP boards can boot > > > with no card inserted again. Eventually SD, CDROM and floppy should > > > all be registered conditionally depending on machine. > > > > This seems the wrong way to solve this problem. The SD emulation should > > be able to cope with no device being present. > > The bdrv's represent the concept of "drive" rather than "media", and > also in the case the bdrv must be present whenever there is a SD slot, > not an SD card (so that monitor command change and eject can be used). > I agree that not all machines have an SD slot, as not all machines > have a cd-rom drive or floppy drive.
Right, but I think you're going in the wrong direction. Most scsi interfaces do support hotplug of devices. For USB mass storage the whole controller is hotplug. Pre-allocating all possible devices simply doesn't scale. Paul
