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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH-for-4.1] hw/ide/piix: Mark the PIIX IDE interfac


From: John Snow
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH-for-4.1] hw/ide/piix: Mark the PIIX IDE interfaces as not user_creatable
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 21:03:44 -0400
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On 7/18/19 5:26 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 18/07/19 11:17, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>> The 'piix3-ide' (and 'piix3-ide-xen') devices are part of the
>> PIIX3 chipset modelled as TYPE_PIIX3_PCI_DEVICE (respectivelly
>> TYPE_PIIX3_XEN_DEVICE). The PIIX3 chipset can not be created
>> in part, it has to be created and used as a whole.
>>
>> Similarly with the 'piix4-ide' device and the PIIX4 chipset
>> modelled as TYPE_PIIX4_PCI_DEVICE.
>>
>> Disable the 'user_creatable' flag.
>>
>> part of TYPE_PIIX3_PCI_DEVICE (TYPE_PIIX3_XEN_DEVICE)
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden>
> 
> This works though:
> 
>   qemu-system-x86_64 \
>     -M q35,sata=off -device piix3-ide,addr=1f.2 \
>     -drive if=none,file=freedos.raw,id=hd -device ide-hd,drive=hd
> 
> And it is a nice hack to mimic Q35's legacy IDE mode...
> 
> Paolo
> 

Right. I never modeled the "right" way to do legacy IDE because I think
it would involve some deeper surgery to the IDE code, and it was hard to
justify the time spent.

Why do we want to disable these devices, exactly?

--js



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