[SeaBIOS] [PATCH 00/16] make SCSI and virtio layers more generic, fix usb-msc bugs
Kevin O'Connor
kevin at koconnor.net
Fri Nov 18 03:48:53 CET 2011
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 01:02:41PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> this are the preparatory bits for virtio-scsi support in SeaBIOS.
> They mostly aim at making code more generic in SeaBIOS for both SCSI and
> virtio, but (on the SCSI side) they also fix some bugs, so I'm sending
> them early to get more exposure.
>
> New features are mostly visible on the USB side since that's currently
> the main consumer of the SCSI implementation. They include more robust
> LUN detection, support for hard disk geometry, and USB mass storage
> write support.
>
> I also fixed for real the race that the RFC series was working around.
>
> For virtio, the series adds a few extra interface bits that are common
> to both virtio-scsi and virtio-blk.
>
> The two parts are logically separate but they have a small conflict,
> so I'm sending them together.
Thanks Paolo. I committed this series. I modified patch 4 slightly,
as I'd prefer to be more explicit about avoiding the divide by zero.
Sven - FYI - this patch set conflicts with your pending patches.
Hopefully, the fixes Paolo has will make your device more stable
though.
-Kevin
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