Re: [Qemu-devel] Use of flash for x86 BIOS

[Laszlo Ersek]

On 03/22/13 20:48, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Jordan Justen <address@hidden> writes:

>>> 1. The "pc-sysfw" device is mostly harmless.
>>
>> Indeed, and it's only marginally of interest until kvm supports it.
>>
>> Admittedly, I've been completely ineffectual in resolving the kvm
>> portion. More recently I tried to make use of KVM_MEM_READONLY to
>> address this. I was able to get an VM exit on writes to flash, but not
>> able to get the memory region to convert to full device mode so VM
>> exits would occur on reads as well. I am once again stalled...
> 
> Have you discussed your difficulties on address@hidden

The most recent discussion that I'm aware of was:

http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-01/msg05150.html
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-01/msg05236.html

(both are sub-threads under the same patch submission).

Laszlo