On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 09:15:55AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon wrote: > > The following patch series implements fixes to the IDE/ATAPI emulation > > in qemu which are already committed upstream or proposed for inclusion; > > including 2 serious regressions that result in availability and data loss > > problems when using OpenSolaris or FreeBSD guests (at least) by the first 2: > > > > Patch 1/5 : fixes GET_CONFIGURATION to allow OpenSolaris cdrom access > > Patch 2/5 : fixes IDE sector write operations resulting in data lost > > Patch 3/5 : enables ACPI interrupts > > Patch 4/5 : uses DVD-ROM as model name for INQUIRY and IDENTIFY DEVICE > > Patch 5/5 : removes obsolete triton chip support > > > > They had been tested in Gentoo Linux 2007.0 amd64 using an Intel Core 2 > > 6320 host and several different versions of FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Linux, > > OpenSolaris and Windows 2000 guests > > Thanks; the last time I tried to merge qemu I had several regressions.
some of the patches I cherry picked from qemu cvs are part of the last import in the qemu-vendor-drops branch but since they had not been yet merged (as you mention) I though it was better to cherry pick them from now to expedite this patch. > I'll try again soon once these are merged (or merge them myself if > qemu-devel takes too long). for qemu is probably not that much of a priority as they already have the patches, most of them committed and the bugs are only in their development tree which they don't release anyway, for kvm it is IMHO different since the bugs are on released code with patch 2 (which ate 3 of my FreeBSD guests with unrecoverable images which wouldn't even have a valid partition table) being around since the qemu import of Oct 1 and therefore part of kvm-45 and all releases up to the date. I understand though why you wouldn't like to divert from qemu, and I'll do my best to try to get qemu to commit those patches so that any future conflicts are resolved automatically, but as I said before, qemu just had different priorities. Carlo ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
