[SeaBIOS] [PATCHv2 0/6] Improved multi-platform support

[David Woodhouse]

On Mon, 2013-02-11 at 19:41 -0500, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 05:28:11PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > > Does QEMU_HARDWARE mean hardware "defined" (so to speak) by QEMU (e.g.
> > > virtio type stuff) or does it include regular hardware emulated by QEMU
> > > (e.g. real IDE disks etc). Xen uses the latter but not the former. The
> > > use of the symbol in both the CONFIG_VIRTIO_FOO and scsi_drive_setup()
> > > suggests it covers both?
> > 
> > I think it's supposed to be the former, and would argue (and submit
> > patches) that it *should* be the case even if Kevin's patch series
> > doesn't quite do that.
> 
> The intent was to implement the former (QEMU_HARDWARE encapsulate
> virtual hardware and hardware we only trust in virtual environments -
> virtio, lsi, esp, debug io, etc).  Did the patch get something wrong?

I don't think so, although my Xen patch may have screwed it up if they
do indeed use the fw_cfg stuff. I meant to ask about that; thanks for
catching it.

-- 
dwmw2

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