[SeaBIOS] Re: [PATCH] ahci: zero-initialize port struct

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

Hi Sam,

On 11/13/19 4:03 PM, Sam Eiderman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does this fix a bug that actually happened?
>
> I just noticed that in my lchs patches I assumed that lchs struct is
> zeroed out in all devices (not only ahci):
>
> 9caa19be0e53 (geometry: Apply LCHS values for boot devices)
>
> Seems like this is not the case but why only ahci is affected?
>
> The list of devices is at least:
>      * ata
>      * ahci
>      * scsi
>          * esp
>          * lsi
>          * megasas
>          * mpt
>          * pvscsi
>          * virtio
>      * virtio-blk
>
> As specified in the commit message.
>
> Also Gerd it seems that my lchs patches were not committed in the
> latest submitted version (v4)!!!
> The ABI of the fw config key is completely broken.

What do you mean? Can you be more specific?