From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com (us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com [170.10.133.124]) by mx.groups.io with SMTP id smtpd.web10.9916.1670398893683314127 for ; Tue, 06 Dec 2022 23:41:34 -0800 Authentication-Results: mx.groups.io; dkim=pass header.i=@redhat.com header.s=mimecast20190719 header.b=WkfUDlpf; spf=pass (domain: redhat.com, ip: 170.10.133.124, mailfrom: kraxel@redhat.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1670398892; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=dkEF8uiyq/GXEVkZ1l5aZ6vRVrBitOrnm3ZAOrRfcak=; b=WkfUDlpf2Jp+7ARmuoZf+EDGORxUDJfpV+GCy43GxvlA0McEElTds/ZzQUHFJBPA/sLE7f VznenZGZHO/7sfCJ/CT4hox/9coZbzTbB0QWzfWVRGRz75rPBavcEz014lb2G/itLsGMzp QBThscr8c1PVW7k21caCiZfpQyDgC3U= Received: from mimecast-mx02.redhat.com (mx3-rdu2.redhat.com [66.187.233.73]) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP with STARTTLS (version=TLSv1.2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id us-mta-556-65QqkmgCPWW5pXptngmFqQ-1; Wed, 07 Dec 2022 02:41:27 -0500 X-MC-Unique: 65QqkmgCPWW5pXptngmFqQ-1 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com [10.11.54.9]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx02.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 11AEB2932491; Wed, 7 Dec 2022 07:41:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sirius.home.kraxel.org (unknown [10.39.192.102]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ABCDD477F55; Wed, 7 Dec 2022 07:41:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by sirius.home.kraxel.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5DFF01800613; Wed, 7 Dec 2022 08:41:23 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2022 08:41:23 +0100 From: "Gerd Hoffmann" To: Mike Maslenkin Cc: devel@edk2.groups.io, dann.frazier@canonical.com, michael.d.kinney@intel.com, Ard Biesheuvel , Jiewen Yao , Jordan Justen , Sebastien Boeuf , Brijesh Singh , Erdem Aktas , James Bottomley , Min Xu , Tom Lendacky , 1016359@bugs.debian.org Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] [Patch 1/2] OvmfPkg: Change default to disable MptScsi and PvScsi Message-ID: <20221207074123.ccj63ciwywubqj6k@sirius.home.kraxel.org> References: <20220726194640.1920-1-michael.d.kinney@intel.com> <20220726194640.1920-2-michael.d.kinney@intel.com> <20221206055649.33rbcbkyuavpxqdk@sirius.home.kraxel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 3.1 on 10.11.54.9 X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Hi, > A patch mentioned above set MPT_SCSI_ENABLE=FALSE, that removed > support for LSI 53C1030 and SAS1068. > These SCSI controllers were emulated by VMware, Parallels and I guess > VitualBox. > This is generic setup for VMware VMs, as far as I remember. > So the booting of such VMs (probably migrated from VMware and others) > was definitely broken. Yes. Problem is there is no maintainer for the driver. There used to be one, but the email address started bouncing. So we updated Maintainers.txt and flipped the switch to not build the unmaintained drivers by default. If debian is fine with shipping unmaintained software to its users you can flip the config switches of course, at least as long as the drivers are still in the tree. The drivers are at risk of being removed though in case we don't find a new maintainer within a year or two. take care, Gerd