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Re: [PATCH 0/4] hw/arm/virt-acpi-build: Only expose flash on older machi
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Peter Maydell |
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Re: [PATCH 0/4] hw/arm/virt-acpi-build: Only expose flash on older machine types |
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Fri, 3 Jul 2020 14:02:46 +0100 |
On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 at 15:09, Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com> wrote:
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> The flash device is exclusively for the host-controlled firmware, so
> we should not expose it to the OS. Exposing it risks the OS messing
> with it, which could break firmware runtime services and surprise the
> OS when all its changes disappear after reboot.
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> This change was suggested by Ard and Laszlo.
Applied to target-arm.next, thanks.
-- PMM