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

From: Andy Whitcroft
Date: Mon Apr 16 2012 - 14:29:32 EST


On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 12:26:34PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> 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 ?

A good question indeed. KY perhaps you can comment.

-apw
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