Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] ppc64-softmmu: Remove unsupported FDC from config

[Alexey Kardashevskiy]

On 03/09/2015 11:31 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> On 02.03.15 00:46, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> > This removes floppy disks support as it is not supported by any PPC64
> > system anyway as the only way to have floppy disk on such systems would
> > be an ISA bus and Linux kernels seems have never had such support.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <address@hidden>
>
> I removed this patch from my queue again. The ppc64-softmmu target can
> execute -M PReP which in turn uses the fdc.


Out of curiosity - do you have actual 64bit guests being able to run on 
PReP? :) Current Linux ditched its support...


> Alex
>
> > ---
> >
> > At the moment on POWERPC platform ISA bus depends on CHRP config option
> > which is so unsupported that it depends on 6xx config option which is not
> > defined anywhere in the kernel (there is PPC_6xx instead with PPC_ prefix).
> > ---
> >   default-configs/ppc64-softmmu.mak | 1 -
> >   1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/default-configs/ppc64-softmmu.mak 
> > b/default-configs/ppc64-softmmu.mak
> > index 2d97bdf..53f5c73 100644
> > --- a/default-configs/ppc64-softmmu.mak
> > +++ b/default-configs/ppc64-softmmu.mak
> > @@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ CONFIG_SERIAL=y
> >   CONFIG_PARALLEL=y
> >   CONFIG_I8254=y
> >   CONFIG_PCKBD=y
> > -CONFIG_FDC=y
> >   CONFIG_I8257=y
> >   CONFIG_I82374=y
> >   CONFIG_OPENPIC=y


--
Alexey