[SeaBIOS] [PATCH] Support for booting from LSI Logic LSI53C1030, SAS1068, SAS1068e

[Timothy Pearson]

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On 01/27/2016 10:38 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> 
> On 27/01/2016 16:57, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 03:51:02PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>> From: Don Slutz <Don.Slutz at Gmail.com>
>>>
>>> Also known as Fusion MPT disk; this controller model is supported
>>> by VirtualBox and VMware, and QEMU support patches have been
>>> posted.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Don Slutz <Don.Slutz at Gmail.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini at redhat.com>
>>
>> Thanks.  Is the upstream support for this in QEMU now?
> 
> Not yet, but it should be in 2.6.
> 
>>> diff --git a/src/Kconfig b/src/Kconfig
>>> index b873cd3..8250702 100644
>>> --- a/src/Kconfig
>>> +++ b/src/Kconfig
>>> @@ -208,6 +208,12 @@ menu "Hardware support"
>>>          default y
>>>          help
>>>              Support boot from LSI MegaRAID SAS scsi storage.
>>> +    config MPT_SCSI
>>> +        depends on DRIVES
>>> +        bool "LSI MPT Fusion controllers"
>>> +        default y
>>> +        help
>>> +            Support boot from LSI MPT Fusion scsi storage.
>>
>> Unless there is good reason to believe this will work on real
>> hardware, I think this should depend on QEMU_HARDWARE and the
>> mpt_scsi_setup() function should check runningOnQEMU().
> 
> It should work on real hardware; the submission of requests works more
> or less the same as for a full-blown driver.  I wouldn't have problems
> with adding the dependency though, since real hardware would come with
> an option ROM.

This I might be able to test directly on real hardware.  Certain systems
cannot use the LSI option ROM (coreboot-based systems in particular), so
I am keen on seeing this work outside of QEMU.

I will test and report back, though it may be a few days before I can do
that.

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Timothy Pearson
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