[SeaBIOS] [PATCH 0/8] Floppy cleanup and fixes for latest QEMU

Kevin O'Connor kevin at koconnor.net
Sun Mar 3 21:48:35 CET 2013


On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 03:42:34PM -0500, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> Recent versions of QEMU are picky about the data rate specified when
> performing floppy transfers (see QEMU commit 844f65d6).  This broke
> the SeaBIOS handling of legacy disk sizes (eg, 360K).
> 
> This series cleans up the low-level floppy transfer code and adds in
> media sensing code to make old floppies work under QEMU again.  (It's
> unclear if this will improve handling on real hardware.)

For anyone interested in testing this series or the previous, I have
pushed it to:

https://github.com/KevinOConnor/seabios/tree/test-20130303

-Kevin



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