Re: [edk2-devel] [Patch 1/2] OvmfPkg: Change default to disable MptScsi and PvScsi

["dann frazier" <dann.frazier@canonical.com>]

On Tue, Dec 06, 2022 at 06:56:49AM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 05, 2022 at 04:36:15PM -0700, dann frazier wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 12:46:39PM -0700, Michael D Kinney wrote:
> > > The email addresses for the reviewers of the MptScsi and
> > > PvScsi are no longer valid.  Disable the MptScsi and PvScsi
> > > drivers in all DSC files until new maintainers/reviewers can
> > > be identified.
> > 
> > Hi Michael,
> > 
> >   This seems likely to be the reason for the following regression
> > report in Debian:
> >   
> >   https://bugs.debian.org/1016359
> 
> I'm not so sure about that.
> 
> > > -  DEFINE PVSCSI_ENABLE           = TRUE
> > > -  DEFINE MPT_SCSI_ENABLE         = TRUE
> > > +  DEFINE PVSCSI_ENABLE           = FALSE
> > > +  DEFINE MPT_SCSI_ENABLE         = FALSE
> > >    DEFINE LSI_SCSI_ENABLE         = FALSE
> 
> The bug report talks about lsilogic and virtio-scsi.
> 
> lsilogic was already disabled by default before this patch.
> 
> virtio-scsi support is included and there are no plans to change
> that because it is a rather essential driver.  It works just fine
> upstream, and there isn't even a config switch to disable it.

Thanks Gerd - I'll work with the users to clarify via the bug (thanks
for responding there as well btw).

  -dann