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Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH v4 00/12] fdc: fix 2.88mb floppy diskette suppor


From: Denis V. Lunev
Subject: Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH v4 00/12] fdc: fix 2.88mb floppy diskette support
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 10:55:55 +0300
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On 01/20/2016 09:51 AM, John Snow wrote:
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           pc: Add pc-*-2.6 machine classes

Yes, it's been broken for ten years.
No, it's not a CVE.

The problem is that QEMU doesn't have a configuration option for the type
of floppy drive you want. It determines that based on the type of
diskette inserted at boot time.

If you don't insert one, it always chooses a 1.44MB type.

If you want to insert a 2.88MB floppy after boot, you simply cannot.

"Wow, who cares?"

Good question -- Unfortunately, the virtio-win floppy disk images that
Red Hat/Fedora ship require a 2.88MB drive, so if you forgot to insert
them at boot, you'd have to change your VM configuration and try again.

For a one-shot operation, that's kind of obnoxious -- it'd be nice to
allow one to just insert the diskette on-demand.

"OK, What are you changing in this decades-old device?"

(1) Add a new property to allow users to specify what kind of drive they
     want without relying on magical guessing behavior.
     Choices are: 120, 144, 288, auto, and none.

     120, 144 and 288 refer to 1.20MB, 1.44MB, and 2.88MB drives.
     auto refers to the auto-detect behavior QEMU currently has.
     none ... hides the drive. You probably don't want to use this,
     but it's there if you feel like creating a drive you can't use.

(2) Add a new "fallback" property for use with the "auto" drive type
     that allows us to specify the backup behavior, too. In most cases
     this property won't be needed, but it is provided for allowing
     QEMU to be fully backwards compatible.

(3) Add the concept of physical diskette size to QEMU, classifying
     120-style diskettes as fundamentally different from 144 and 288 ones.

(4) Revamp the automatic guessing heuristic to understand that
     2.88MB style drives can accept 1.44MB diskettes.

(5) Change the automatic fallback type for the automatic guessing
     heuristic from 1.44MB to 2.88MB for 2.6 machines and beyond,
     leaving 2.5- machines set to default to auto/144.

(6) A lot of code cleanup in general.

"Won't this break everything, you madman?"

No: I tested this in MS-DOS 6.22, Fedora 23 and Windows 8.1. All
seemed perfectly happy with 2.88MB drives as the default for 1.44
or 2.88MB floppy diskette images.

And: Older machine types will happily still default to the 1.44
      type just like they used to, so really nothing should change
      at all for most guests.

If there ARE any guests affected in 2.6+ machine types, you are
urged to use an explicit drive type that matches your application
if the automatic behavior is unsuitable.

===
v4:
===

Hopefully a more logical patch order with smaller changes.

001/12:[----] [--] 'fdc: move pick_geometry'
002/12:[down] 'fdc: reduce number of pick_geometry arguments'
003/12:[down] 'fdc: add drive type qapi enum'
004/12:[0008] [FC] 'fdc: add disk field'
005/12:[down] 'fdc: Throw an assertion on misconfigured fd_formats table'
006/12:[down] 'fdc: add pick_drive'
007/12:[0018] [FC] 'fdc: Add fallback option'
008/12:[down] 'fdc: add drive type option'
009/12:[----] [-C] 'fdc: add physical disk sizes'
010/12:[0014] [FC] 'fdc: rework pick_geometry'
011/12:[----] [--] 'qtest/fdc: Support for 2.88MB drives'
012/12:[0010] [FC] 'fdc: change auto fallback drive for ISA FDC to 288'

02: Kept both debug printfs in fd_revalidate.
03: New patch, QAPI enumeration change only.
04: Re-ordered FDrive fields
     Fallout from 03.
05: New patch.
06: Almost completely re-done.
07: Added media_validated property
     Fallout from patch re-ordering.
08: Re-ordered.
10: Changed return type of pick_geometry to int.
     Changed one error pathway to abort, as it's not a run-time problem.
12: Rebased on top of current master.

===
v3:
===

001/11:[----] [--] 'fdc: move pick_geometry'
002/11:[----] [--] 'fdc: refactor pick_geometry'
003/11:[----] [--] 'fdc: add disk field'
004/11:[0037] [FC] 'fdc: add default drive type option'
005/11:[down] 'fdc: Add fallback option'
006/11:[----] [-C] 'fdc: do not call revalidate on eject'
007/11:[0030] [FC] 'fdc: implement new drive type property'
008/11:[----] [-C] 'fdc: add physical disk sizes'
009/11:[0018] [FC] 'fdc: rework pick_geometry'
010/11:[----] [--] 'qtest/fdc: Support for 2.88MB drives'
011/11:[down] 'fdc: change auto fallback drive for ISA FDC to 288'

04: Remove typeA/typeB members of FDCtrl. Store e.g. -fdtypeA options
            directly into FDCtrl.drives[x].drive instead.
05: Add a new fallback= option that controls fdtype{A,B}=auto behavior.
07: replace get_default_drive_type which is no longer needed
     add get_fallback_drive_type.
09: Reworked the auto/fallback section of pick_geometry.

________________________________________________________________________________

For convenience, this branch is available at:
https://github.com/jnsnow/qemu.git branch fdc-default
https://github.com/jnsnow/qemu/tree/fdc-default

This version is tagged fdc-default-v4:
https://github.com/jnsnow/qemu/releases/tag/fdc-default-v4

John Snow (12):
   fdc: move pick_geometry
   fdc: reduce number of pick_geometry arguments
   fdc: add drive type qapi enum
   fdc: add disk field
   fdc: Throw an assertion on misconfigured fd_formats table
   fdc: add pick_drive
   fdc: Add fallback option
   fdc: add drive type option
   fdc: add physical disk sizes
   fdc: rework pick_geometry
   qtest/fdc: Support for 2.88MB drives
   fdc: change auto fallback drive for ISA FDC to 288

  hw/block/fdc.c               | 315 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
  hw/core/qdev-properties.c    |  11 ++
  hw/i386/pc.c                 |  17 +--
  include/hw/block/fdc.h       |   9 +-
  include/hw/compat.h          |   4 +
  include/hw/qdev-properties.h |   1 +
  qapi/block.json              |  16 +++
  tests/fdc-test.c             |   2 +-
  8 files changed, 259 insertions(+), 116 deletions(-)

should we recreate ACPI tables after geometry switch?
This would be especially interesting for the case of
Win2k12 (or Win8.1 if you prefer) under OVMF.

Den



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