Re: [PATCH 0/2] Hyper-V disk support V3

From: Alan Cox
Date: Mon Apr 16 2012 - 07:27:16 EST


On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:20:27 +0100
Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Add support for ignoring disks devices on specific host controllers to
> libata. Use this support to trigger us to ignore Hyper-V disk devices
> on the emulated SATA device based on the system DMI information.
>
> Jeff, I believe the first patch is what you had in mind in your comments.
> Alan, the piix sadly has no subvendor/subdevice identifiers at all

So its 0x0000,0x0000 ?

> though we are able to detect the platform from the DMI information,
> this any better?

What happens if you have a PIIX device which is being passed through from
the underlying hardware or will hyper-v never support pass through ?

Alan
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