David, Alex, got a sPAPR question for you.
Markus Armbruster writes:
> Cc'ing in sPAPR maintainers...
[...]
> Let me spell things out a bit more, to make sure we all agree on what
> exactly we want to deprecate.
>
> After this series, -drive if=scsi works for the following machine types:
>
> * m
Peter Maydell writes:
> On 24 January 2017 at 17:40, Paolo Bonzini 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
On 24 January 2017 at 17:40, Paolo Bonzini 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 t
On 24/01/2017 18:24, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 24 January 2017 at 17:20, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> Paolo Bonzini 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,
On 24 January 2017 at 17:20, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Paolo Bonzini 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 ty
Paolo Bonzini 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 t
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 c
Cc'ing in sPAPR maintainers...
Paolo Bonzini writes:
> On 23/01/2017 20:16, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>>> Could we change
>>> those messages to errors
>>
>> Fine with me, but when it comes to arguing for backward compatibility of
>> our byzant
On 23/01/2017 20:16, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> Could we change
>> those messages to errors
>
> Fine with me, but when it comes to arguing for backward compatibility of
> our byzantine command line, I'm kind of like a lethargic public defende
Paolo Bonzini writes:
> On 23/01/2017 10:48, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> The PC machines (pc-q35-* pc-i440fx-* pc-* isapc xenfv) automatically
>> create lsi53c895a SCSI HBAs and SCSI devices to honor -drive if=scsi.
>> For giggles, try -drive if=scsi,bus=25,media=cdrom --- this makes QEMU
>> crea
On 23/01/2017 10:48, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> The PC machines (pc-q35-* pc-i440fx-* pc-* isapc xenfv) automatically
> create lsi53c895a SCSI HBAs and SCSI devices to honor -drive if=scsi.
> For giggles, try -drive if=scsi,bus=25,media=cdrom --- this makes QEMU
> create 25 of them.
>
> The lsi5
The PC machines (pc-q35-* pc-i440fx-* pc-* isapc xenfv) automatically
create lsi53c895a SCSI HBAs and SCSI devices to honor -drive if=scsi.
For giggles, try -drive if=scsi,bus=25,media=cdrom --- this makes QEMU
create 25 of them.
The lsi53c895a is thoroughly obsolete (PCI Ultra2 SCSI, ca. 2000), a
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