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

[Jan Kiszka]

On 2012-11-01 03:55, Jordan Justen wrote:
> 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)

Can you be more specific how/when it failed? A trivial test cannot
confirm this so far.

Jan

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