[SeaBIOS] [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Simultaneous multi-platform support

Paolo Bonzini pbonzini at redhat.com
Fri Feb 8 15:33:35 CET 2013


Il 08/02/2013 11:37, Gerd Hoffmann ha scritto:
>   Hi,
> 
>> I only really want to be allowed to use virtio devices, and also the
>> "real" hardware devices like lsi scsi, which are currently enabled only
>> for QEMU for some reason (is the qemu emulation not compatible with real
>> devices?)
> 
> Pretty close:  It isn't tested on real hardware, thats why the
> restriction to qemu.  We had that for other drivers too: ahci started as
> qemu-supported too, after testing+fixing on real hardware it got enabled
> for everybody.  Given the age of real lsi hardware it is unlikely
> anybody ever wants to use it on !qemu though ...

Also, unlike AHCI the real hardware would likely come with option ROMs...

Paolo




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