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To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, Georg Hofstetter <qemu@g3gg0.de>
Cc: Alex Dumitrache <broscutamaker@gmail.com>, Peter Crosthwaite <peter.crosthwaite@xilinx.com>, Giovanni Condello <condellog@gmail.com>, g3gg0 <georg.hofstetter@lx-networking.de>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcmVhcyBGw6RyYmVy?= <afaerber@suse.de>, Antony Pavlov <antonynpavlov@gmail.com>

Am 17.10.2013 21:17, schrieb Peter Maydell:
> 
>>  - make sure the flash emulation supports reflashing (properties)
>>  - change qemu memory subsystem to support execution from a flash that
>>    can be reprogrammed (properties are rewritten during startup)
>>    (maybe this is already possible, but it wasn't so 6 months ago)
> 
> I agree that these are probably missing features in our flash
> emulation, but aren't they orthogonal to the question of how
> we handle CPU reset and what the starting PC should be?
> 

Hi Peter,

absolutely - this was just the whole list of behavior to be implemented
and/or emulated to get the emulator close to real hardware.
Its just something that would prevent a clean firmware boot and came to
my mind while writing about system startup.

So yeah, its a bit off topic :)

Regards,
Georg