[OE-core] [PATCH 1/3] systemd: fix formatting IDE storage does not trigger "change" uevents

[Andre McCurdy]

On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 5:21 PM, Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia at windriver.com> wrote:
> On 2017年11月20日 19:07, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 17 November 2017 at 06:08, Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia at windriver.com> wrote:
>>
>> +qemu by default emulates IDE and the linux-yocto kernel(s) use
>> +CONFIG_IDE instead of the more modern libsata, so disks appear as
>> +/dev/hd*. A similar patch rejected by upstream because CONFIG_IDE
>> +is deprecated.
>
> Can we fix our kernel and/or qemu configuration too?
>
> For qemu, RP have replace it with virtio, but it have the
> similar issue on virtualbox with IDE controller.

VirtualBox gives you the choice about whether to connect the HDD image
to a virtual IDE or SATA port.

ie VirtualBox isn't a reason to have our rootfs images continue to try
to support IDE.

> ...
> commit f59e729f98ef9b506b0cfdc415567e03ec87f2a9
> Author: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>
> Date:   Tue Aug 22 22:58:02 2017 +0100
>
>     runqemu: Use virtio to mount cdrom drives
>
>     The IDE driver in the kernel is fragile and in 4.12 is causing
> backtraces.
>     To unblock 4.12 kernel merging use the virtio CD driver instead to mount
>     iso images which should be faster and more stable.
> ...
>
> //Hongxu
>
> Ross
>
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