From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41564) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VrA6l-0005rh-SB for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 12:31:36 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VrA6g-0001kE-HT for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 12:31:31 -0500 Received: from mail-pb0-f42.google.com ([209.85.160.42]:36337) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VrA6g-0001jJ-CE for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 12:31:26 -0500 Received: by mail-pb0-f42.google.com with SMTP id uo5so902441pbc.15 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 09:31:25 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1386279359-32286-3-git-send-email-roy.franz@linaro.org> References: <1386279359-32286-1-git-send-email-roy.franz@linaro.org> <1386279359-32286-3-git-send-email-roy.franz@linaro.org> From: Peter Maydell Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 17:31:05 +0000 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V5 2/7] Add device-width property to pflash_cfi01 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Roy Franz Cc: Kevin Wolf , QEMU Developers , Stefan Hajnoczi , Patch Tracking On 5 December 2013 21:35, Roy Franz wrote: > The width of the devices that make up the flash interface > is required to mask certain commands, in particular the > write length for buffered writes. This length will be presented > to each device on the interface by the program writing the flash, > and the flash emulation code needs to be able to determine > the length of the write as recieved by each flash device. > The device-width defaults to the bank width which should > maintain existing behavior for platforms that don't need > this change. > This change is required to support buffered writes on the > vexpress platform that has a 32 bit flash interface with 2 > 16 bit devices on it. > > Signed-off-by: Roy Franz thanks -- PMM