Re: [edk2-devel] [Patch 1/2] OvmfPkg: Change default to disable MptScsi and PvScsi

2022-12-07 Thread dann frazier
On Wed, Dec 07, 2022 at 11:22:10AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > On Wed, 2022-12-07 at 17:04 +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > On Wed, 7 Dec 2022 at 17:02, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Dec 07, 2022 at 09:14:39AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2022-12-07 at 15:09 +0100,

Re: [edk2-devel] [Patch 1/2] OvmfPkg: Change default to disable MptScsi and PvScsi

2022-12-07 Thread James Bottomley
On Wed, 2022-12-07 at 17:04 +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > On Wed, 7 Dec 2022 at 17:02, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > > > On Wed, Dec 07, 2022 at 09:14:39AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > > > On Wed, 2022-12-07 at 15:09 +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > > > So at some point, these drivers will be remo

Re: [edk2-devel] [Patch 1/2] OvmfPkg: Change default to disable MptScsi and PvScsi

2022-12-07 Thread Ard Biesheuvel
On Wed, 7 Dec 2022 at 17:02, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 07, 2022 at 09:14:39AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > > On Wed, 2022-12-07 at 15:09 +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > > So at some point, these drivers will be removed rather than kept > > > alive by the core team unless someone ste

Re: [edk2-devel] [Patch 1/2] OvmfPkg: Change default to disable MptScsi and PvScsi

2022-12-07 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
On Wed, Dec 07, 2022 at 09:14:39AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > On Wed, 2022-12-07 at 15:09 +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > So at some point, these drivers will be removed rather than kept > > alive by the core team unless someone steps up. > > How important is keeping them alive? Most common

Re: [edk2-devel] [Patch 1/2] OvmfPkg: Change default to disable MptScsi and PvScsi

2022-12-07 Thread James Bottomley
On Wed, 2022-12-07 at 15:09 +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > So at some point, these drivers will be removed rather than kept > alive by the core team unless someone steps up. How important is keeping them alive? I can volunteer to "maintain" them which I anticipate won't be much effort (plus I'm u

Re: [edk2-devel] [Patch 1/2] OvmfPkg: Change default to disable MptScsi and PvScsi

2022-12-07 Thread Ard Biesheuvel
On Wed, 7 Dec 2022 at 08:41, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > Hi, > > > A patch mentioned above set MPT_SCSI_ENABLE=FALSE, that removed > > support for LSI 53C1030 and SAS1068. > > These SCSI controllers were emulated by VMware, Parallels and I guess > > VitualBox. > > This is generic setup for VMware

Re: [edk2-devel] [Patch 1/2] OvmfPkg: Change default to disable MptScsi and PvScsi

2022-12-06 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, > A patch mentioned above set MPT_SCSI_ENABLE=FALSE, that removed > support for LSI 53C1030 and SAS1068. > These SCSI controllers were emulated by VMware, Parallels and I guess > VitualBox. > This is generic setup for VMware VMs, as far as I remember. > So the booting of such VMs (probably

Re: [edk2-devel] [Patch 1/2] OvmfPkg: Change default to disable MptScsi and PvScsi

2022-12-06 Thread Mike Maslenkin
Greetings All! As I can see LSI_SCSI_ENABLE related to LSI LSI_53C895A_PCI_DEVICE_ID Vid/Did 0x1000:0x0012. I guess it is some old Megaraid adapter. A patch mentioned above set MPT_SCSI_ENABLE=FALSE, that removed support for LSI 53C1030 and SAS1068. These SCSI controllers were emulated by VMwar

Re: [edk2-devel] [Patch 1/2] OvmfPkg: Change default to disable MptScsi and PvScsi

2022-12-06 Thread dann frazier
On Tue, Dec 06, 2022 at 06:56:49AM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > On Mon, Dec 05, 2022 at 04:36:15PM -0700, dann frazier wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 12:46:39PM -0700, Michael D Kinney wrote: > > > The email addresses for the reviewers of the MptScsi and > > > PvScsi are no longer valid. Disa

Re: [edk2-devel] [Patch 1/2] OvmfPkg: Change default to disable MptScsi and PvScsi

2022-12-05 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
On Mon, Dec 05, 2022 at 04:36:15PM -0700, dann frazier wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 12:46:39PM -0700, Michael D Kinney wrote: > > The email addresses for the reviewers of the MptScsi and > > PvScsi are no longer valid. Disable the MptScsi and PvScsi > > drivers in all DSC files until new maint

Re: [edk2-devel] [Patch 1/2] OvmfPkg: Change default to disable MptScsi and PvScsi

2022-12-05 Thread dann frazier
On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 6:25 PM Kinney, Michael D wrote: > > Hi Dann, > > The purpose of this first step was due to lack of > support/maintainers/reviewers. > > If there are issues, then we need to find maintainers/reviewers starting with > those that are using and depend on these features. > > If

Re: [edk2-devel] [Patch 1/2] OvmfPkg: Change default to disable MptScsi and PvScsi

2022-12-05 Thread Michael D Kinney
; Justen, Jordan L > ; Gerd Hoffmann ; Boeuf, > Sebastien ; Brijesh Singh > ; Aktas, Erdem ; James > Bottomley ; Xu, Min M > ; Tom Lendacky > Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] [Patch 1/2] OvmfPkg: Change default to disable > MptScsi and PvScsi > > On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 12:46:39PM

Re: [edk2-devel] [Patch 1/2] OvmfPkg: Change default to disable MptScsi and PvScsi

2022-12-05 Thread dann frazier
On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 12:46:39PM -0700, Michael D Kinney wrote: > The email addresses for the reviewers of the MptScsi and > PvScsi are no longer valid. Disable the MptScsi and PvScsi > drivers in all DSC files until new maintainers/reviewers can > be identified. Hi Michael, This seems likel

[edk2-devel] [Patch 1/2] OvmfPkg: Change default to disable MptScsi and PvScsi

2022-07-26 Thread Michael D Kinney
The email addresses for the reviewers of the MptScsi and PvScsi are no longer valid. Disable the MptScsi and PvScsi drivers in all DSC files until new maintainers/reviewers can be identified. Cc: Ard Biesheuvel Cc: Jiewen Yao Cc: Jordan Justen Cc: Gerd Hoffmann Cc: Sebastien Boeuf Cc: Brijes