Re: [PATCH 0/8] aspeed: I2C fixes, -drive removal (first step)

[Cédric Le Goater]

> > The next step would be to get rid of the drive_get(IF_MTD) internal
> > API, which means finding a way to attach block backend devices from
> > the command line to the default flash devices. This should be done
> > at machine init time and the blockdev should have some 'bus@addr'
> > identifier. I lack the knowledge on how this could be done.
>
> Possibly interesting for you: commit e0561e60f17 "hw/arm/virt: Support
> firmware configuration with -blockdev".

I see. The mapping device<->blk is moved at the machine level with
an option. The same could be done for the Aspeed machines with "fmc0",
"spi0", identifiers.

I think we should deprecate the "fmc-model" and "spi-model" machine
options. They become useless with -nodefaults correctly implemented.

Thanks,