Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] block: handle "rechs" and "large" translation options

2014-01-31 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 04:57:25PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Sure, CHS translation is an obscure topic, and legacy options for > hard-disk geometries are obscure as well. But since QEMU does nothing > with it except telling the BIOS, and since there "large" and "rechs" > are listed in the enum

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] block: handle "rechs" and "large" translation options

2014-01-31 Thread Markus Armbruster
Paolo Bonzini writes: > Sure, CHS translation is an obscure topic, and legacy options for > hard-disk geometries are obscure as well. But since QEMU does nothing > with it except telling the BIOS, and since there "large" and "rechs" > are listed in the enums, parsing them seems to be the bare mi

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] block: handle "rechs" and "large" translation options

2014-01-30 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Sure, CHS translation is an obscure topic, and legacy options for hard-disk geometries are obscure as well. But since QEMU does nothing with it except telling the BIOS, and since there "large" and "rechs" are listed in the enums, parsing them seems to be the bare minimum. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bon