[Qemu-devel] Re: AHCI in SeaBIOS

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 12:57:41AM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
> 
> Do you remember why you put AHCI in with default=n? I'd like to see
> it enabled in Qemu 0.14 and IIUC we use the default configuration
> for that.

Hi Alex,

Sorry - I've gotten behind on emails.

The reason for not enabling it by default was for two reasons - it had
not been tested on real hardware, and it was unclear if doing the jump
into 32bit mode would have adverse impact.

> Speaking of which - it would be awesome of we had a companion
> SeaBIOS release with Qemu 0.14, so we don't have to fetch a random
> git snapshot but potentially even could maintain a stable SeaBIOS
> for during the lifetime of 0.14 :).

It's about time to make a new release of seabios, so I'll see if that
can be done in a week or so.

-Kevin