Re: [Qemu-devel] ISA BIOS mapping for system flash emulation

[Jordan Justen]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 11:14 PM, Jan Kiszka <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Jordan,
>
> I was starring at pc_isa_bios_init and wondering why you are creating a
> copy of the system flash for the low ISA range instead of using an alias
> here as well, just like old_pc_system_rom_init does. That means the ISA
> BIOS range can run out of sync when the system flash is updated during
> runtime and requires a restart of QEMU then. Switching to an alias would
> also allow some code consolidation. Can you explain the idea behind the
> current version?

I'm pretty sure I tried this and found that it did not work on the flash device.

I wrote an email to the list on Oct 17, 2011 about this, but I didn't
get a response. (Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] pc: Support system flash
memory with pflash)

-Jordan