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* [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] [PATCH v3 0/4] Add Qemu to SeaBIOS LCHS interface
@ 2019-06-19  9:23 Sam Eiderman
  2019-06-19  9:23 ` [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] [PATCH v3 1/4] geometry: Read LCHS from fw_cfg Sam Eiderman
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From: Sam Eiderman @ 2019-06-19  9:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: kwolf, qemu-block, qemu-devel, mreitz, seabios, kraxel, kevin
  Cc: liran.alon, shmuel.eiderman, karl.heubaum, arbel.moshe

v1:

Non-standard logical geometries break under QEMU.

A virtual disk which contains an operating system which depends on
logical geometries (consistent values being reported from BIOS INT13
AH=08) will most likely break under QEMU/SeaBIOS if it has non-standard
logical geometries - for example 56 SPT (sectors per track).
No matter what QEMU will guess - SeaBIOS, for large enough disks - will
use LBA translation, which will report 63 SPT instead.

In addition we can not enforce SeaBIOS to rely on phyiscal geometries at
all. A virtio-blk-pci virtual disk with 255 phyiscal heads can not
report more than 16 physical heads when moved to an IDE controller, the
ATA spec allows a maximum of 16 heads - this is an artifact of
virtualization.

By supplying the logical geometies directly we are able to support such
"exotic" disks.

We will use fw_cfg to do just that.

v2:

Rename bootdevices fw_cfg key to bios-geoemtry

v3:

Change fw_cfg interface from mixed binary/textual to textual only
Squash commit "config: Add toggle for bootdevice information"

Sam Eiderman (4):
  geometry: Read LCHS from fw_cfg
  boot: Reorder functions in boot.c
  geometry: Add boot_lchs_find_*() utility functions
  geometry: Apply LCHS values for boot devices

 src/Kconfig          |   7 ++
 src/block.c          |  21 ++++-
 src/block.h          |   1 +
 src/boot.c           | 239 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 src/hw/ahci.c        |   1 +
 src/hw/ata.c         |   8 ++
 src/hw/esp-scsi.c    |   2 +
 src/hw/lsi-scsi.c    |   2 +
 src/hw/megasas.c     |   1 +
 src/hw/mpt-scsi.c    |   2 +
 src/hw/pvscsi.c      |   1 +
 src/hw/virtio-blk.c  |   2 +
 src/hw/virtio-scsi.c |   2 +
 src/util.h           |   6 ++
 14 files changed, 249 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)

-- 
2.13.3



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2019-06-19  9:23 ` [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] [PATCH v3 2/4] boot: Reorder functions in boot.c Sam Eiderman
2019-06-19  9:23 ` [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] [PATCH v3 3/4] geometry: Add boot_lchs_find_*() utility functions Sam Eiderman
2019-06-20 14:37   ` Kevin O'Connor
2019-06-21 17:42     ` Sam Eiderman
2019-06-21 18:59       ` Kevin O'Connor
2019-06-22  8:51         ` Sam Eiderman
2019-06-22 15:27           ` Kevin O'Connor
2019-06-22 17:33             ` Sam Eiderman
2019-06-26 11:34               ` Sam Eiderman
2019-06-19  9:23 ` [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] [PATCH v3 4/4] geometry: Apply LCHS values for boot devices Sam Eiderman
2019-06-20  5:42   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-06-20  8:52     ` Sam Eiderman
2019-06-20 11:47       ` Gerd Hoffmann

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