Re: [PATCH v2 4/8] hw/boards: Remove all invalid uses of auto_create_sdcard=true

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 5/2/25 08:03, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org> writes:
>
> > MachineClass::auto_create_sdcard is only useful to automatically
> > create a SD card, attach a IF_SD block drive to it and plug the
> > card onto a SD bus. Only the ARM and RISCV targets use such
> > feature:
> >
> >   $ git grep -wl IF_SD hw | cut -d/ -f-2 | sort -u
> >   hw/arm
> >   hw/riscv
> >   $
> >
> > Remove all other uses.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
>
> Impact?
>
> As far as I can tell, this stops creation of the if=sd default drive
> these machines don't actually use.  Correct?

Yes, since these machines don't expose a SD-bus, the drive can
not be attached and always triggers the same error:

$ qemu-system-hppa -sd /bin/sh
qemu-system-hppa: -sd /bin/sh: machine type does not support 
if=sd,bus=0,unit=0