Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/6] hw/arm/virt: Provide flash devices for boot ROMs

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On 10 September 2014 11:12, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 10 September 2014 10:09, Ard Biesheuvel <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 9 September 2014 20:20, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> There were previously questions about whether we should
>>> have flash or RAM at the bottom, but I think it makes
>>> sense just to have a "like vexpress" config with two
>>> flash devices. This does make telling QEMU about backing
>>> storage for the 2nd flash a little complicated, but I
>>> think anybody seriously running a config like that will
>>> be using the management tools layer anyhow.
>
>> You mean having to use -pflash and pad the images out to 64 MB? I
>> wouldn't worry about that.
>
> More particularly that if you don't want to provide backing
> storage for the first flash but only the second, you can't just
> use pflash but have to use the longer -drive options.
>

OK, I will drop this one from my series then.