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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] hw: timer: Add ASPEED RTC device
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Cédric Le Goater |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] hw: timer: Add ASPEED RTC device |
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Mon, 15 Apr 2019 08:13:40 +0200 |
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On 4/12/19 1:55 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 at 04:17, Joel Stanley <address@hidden> wrote:
>> vmstate and migration is a foreign concept for the small ARM machines.
>> As well as being a developer, I am an end user of Qemu for them (the
>> aspeeds, microbit), and the use case is to boot up a firmware and
>> check that it does correct thing. I've never considered saving the
>> state and resming it, and can't think of a situation where that would
>> be done.
>
> It's a really useful debugging tool:
>
> https://translatedcode.wordpress.com/2015/07/06/tricks-for-debugging-qemu-savevm-snapshots/
yes. Our Aspeed machines migrate quite well today and, who knows,
we might want one day to run Aspeed VMs on the "cloud". I doubt it
but, anyway, it's really not complex to do either.
Thanks,
C.