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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/6] hw/arm/virt: Provide flash devices for boot
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Peter Maydell |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/6] hw/arm/virt: Provide flash devices for boot ROMs |
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Wed, 10 Sep 2014 10:12:09 +0100 |
On 10 September 2014 10:09, Ard Biesheuvel <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 9 September 2014 20:20, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> 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.
-- PMM
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] hw/arm/boot: enable DTB support when booting ELF images, Ard Biesheuvel, 2014/09/05
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/6] hw/arm/boot: load DTB as a ROM image, Ard Biesheuvel, 2014/09/05