On 7/18/19 5:26 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 18/07/19 11:17, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>> The 'piix3-ide' (and 'piix3-ide-xen') devices are part of the
>> PIIX3 chipset modelled as TYPE_PIIX3_PCI_DEVICE (respectivelly
>> TYPE_PIIX3_XEN_DEVICE). The PIIX3 chipset can not be created
>> in part, it has to be created and used as a whole.
>>
>> Similarly with the 'piix4-ide' device and the PIIX4 chipset
>> modelled as TYPE_PIIX4_PCI_DEVICE.
>>
>> Disable the 'user_creatable' flag.
>>
>> part of TYPE_PIIX3_PCI_DEVICE (TYPE_PIIX3_XEN_DEVICE)
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@redhat.com>
>
> This works though:
>
> qemu-system-x86_64 \
> -M q35,sata=off -device piix3-ide,addr=1f.2 \
> -drive if=none,file=freedos.raw,id=hd -device ide-hd,drive=hd
>
> And it is a nice hack to mimic Q35's legacy IDE mode...
>
> Paolo
>
Right. I never modeled the "right" way to do legacy IDE because I think
it would involve some deeper surgery to the IDE code, and it was hard to
justify the time spent.
Why do we want to disable these devices, exactly?
--js
