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[Qemu-block] [PATCH 0/3] fdc: Use separate qdev device for drives
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Kevin Wolf |
Subject: |
[Qemu-block] [PATCH 0/3] fdc: Use separate qdev device for drives |
Date: |
Mon, 5 Sep 2016 17:43:53 +0200 |
We have been complaining for a long time about how the floppy controller and
floppy drives are combined in a single qdev device and how this makes the
device awkward to work with because it behaves different from all other block
devices.
The latest reason to complain was when I noticed that using qdev device names
in QMP commands (e.g. for media change) doesn't really work when only the
controller is a qdev device, but the drives aren't.
So I decided to have a go at it, and this is the result.
It doesn't actually change any of the inner workings of the floppy controller,
but it wires things up differently on the qdev layer so that a floppy
controller now exposes a bus on which the floppy drives sit. This results in a
structure that is similar to IDE where the actual drive state is still in the
controller and the qdev device basically just contains the qdev properties -
not pretty, but quite workable.
The commit message of patch 3 explains how to use it. In short, there is a
'-device floppy' now and it does what you would expect if you ever used ide-cd.
The other problem is old command lines, especially those using things like
'-global isa-fdc,driveA=...'. In order to keep them working, we need to forward
the property to an internally created floppy drive device. This is a bit like
usb-storage, which we know is ugly, but works well enough in practice. The good
news here is that in contrast to usb-storage, the floppy controller only does
the forwarding for legacy configurations; as soon as you start using '-device
floppy', it doesn't happen any more.
So as you may have expected, this conversion doesn't result in a perfect
device, but I think it's definitely an improvement over the old state. I hope
you like it despite the warts. :-)
Kevin Wolf (3):
fdc: Add a floppy qbus
fdc: Add a floppy drive qdev
fdc: Move qdev properties to FloppyDrive
hw/block/fdc.c | 255 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
vl.c | 1 +
2 files changed, 211 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)
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