[OpenBIOS] [PATCH 0/4] Add virtio-blk driver support

BALATON Zoltan balaton at eik.bme.hu
Thu Oct 18 00:09:00 CEST 2018


On Wed, 17 Oct 2018, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> Yeah that's just about it - since the native OS doesn't have a virtio-blk-pci driver
> then someone would need to write an NDRV similar to the way in which Ben wrote the
> QEMU VGA driver. Don't suppose you know anyone with any MacOS 9 development
> experience who might be interested?

I think Mac-On-Linux (or some other Mac virtualisation software, I don't 
know these too much) has some drivers which are not virtio but a similar 
paravirtualised driver that probably could be adapted. This may be easier 
than writing a driver from scratch as the framework is already there, only 
the way to talk to the hypervisor should be replaced (or the way it works 
on MOL could be implemented in QEMU whichever is simpler). Not sure how 
much work this would be, just an idea if someone wants to take a look and 
try.

Regards,
BALATON Zoltan



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