From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33849) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRf7M-0001ZB-8t for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 06:27:21 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRf7G-0001fs-E9 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 06:27:16 -0400 Received: from mail-lb0-f175.google.com ([209.85.217.175]:48701) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRf7G-0001fb-7f for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 06:27:10 -0400 Received: by mail-lb0-f175.google.com with SMTP id v6so4569959lbi.34 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 03:27:09 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1409930126-28449-1-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> <1409930126-28449-2-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 12:27:09 +0200 Message-ID: From: Ard Biesheuvel Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/6] hw/arm/virt: Provide flash devices for boot ROMs List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Maydell Cc: Fu Wei , Peter Crosthwaite , QEMU Developers , Christoffer Dall On 10 September 2014 11:12, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 10 September 2014 10:09, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >> On 9 September 2014 20:20, Peter Maydell wrote: >>> There were previously questions about whether we should >>> have flash or RAM at the bottom, but I think it makes >>> sense just to have a "like vexpress" config with two >>> flash devices. This does make telling QEMU about backing >>> storage for the 2nd flash a little complicated, but I >>> think anybody seriously running a config like that will >>> be using the management tools layer anyhow. > >> You mean having to use -pflash and pad the images out to 64 MB? I >> wouldn't worry about that. > > More particularly that if you don't want to provide backing > storage for the first flash but only the second, you can't just > use pflash but have to use the longer -drive options. > OK, I will drop this one from my series then.