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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ahci: Fix non-NCQ accesses for LBA > 16bits
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Alexander Graf |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ahci: Fix non-NCQ accesses for LBA > 16bits |
Date: |
Wed, 25 May 2011 00:58:02 +0200 |
On 25.05.2011, at 00:46, Alexander Graf wrote:
> AHCI provides two ways of reading/writing data:
>
> 1) NCQ
> 2) ATA commands with the LBA in the command FIS
>
> In the second code path, we didn't handle any LBAs that were bigger than
> 16 bits, so whenever a guest that used high LBA numbers wanted to access
> data, the LBA got truncated down to 16 bits, giving the guest garbage.
>
> This patch adds support for LBAs higher than 16 bits. I've tested that it
> works just fine with SeaBIOS and Linux guests. This patch also unbreaks
> the often reported grub errors people have seen with AHCI.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <address@hidden>
Eh - ignore that one please. I was reusing an old git-send-email command line
that accidently had this patch in it :).
Alex