Hi Christopher! After reading through the upstream discussion, I'm torn about re- enabling support for PVSCSI in Ubuntu (incl. 26.04 LTS), which needs to be supported until at least 2036...
https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/topic/92635541 The upstream maintainer's [Gerd] stance is the following: "If debian[/ubuntu] is fine with shipping unmaintained software to its users you can flip the config switches of course, at least as long as the drivers are still in the tree. The drivers are at risk of being removed though in case we don't find a new maintainer within a year or two." There was no update to the codebase in 2+ years: - https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/commits/master/OvmfPkg/MptScsiDxe - https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/commits/master/OvmfPkg/PvScsiDxe Since then, there was a discussion between James Bottomley and Ard Biesheuvel about taking over maintenance of this code: "How important is keeping them alive? I can volunteer to "maintain" them which I anticipate won't be much effort (plus I'm used to looking after obsolete SCSI equipment). The hardware is obsolete, so the mechanics of their emulation isn't going to change, the only potential risk is changes in the guest to host transmission layer that breaks something. On the other hand, I've got to say I use virtio-scsi in all my VM testing environments, so the maintenance will likely only be reacting when someone else reports a problem." But nobody ended up in Maintainers.txt... Instead, we now have Aaron Young as a reviewer: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/commit/2cd9d5f6fa710e9a8ee810212081f86702114d2f – but we still don't have a maintainer. Would you mind elaborating a bit more on your usecase and why you'd want to build upon such supposedly "obsolete equipment"? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2129178 Title: Can not boot qemu VMs using ParaVirtual SCSI controllers with Ubuntu 24.04 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/edk2/+bug/2129178/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
