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Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:11:54 -0600
From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: RFC: emulation of system flash
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To: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz>, Kevin O'Connor <kevin@koconnor.net>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>, Jordan Justen <jljusten@gmail.com>

On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:46:34 +0100
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net> wrote:

> Auf 10.03.2011 13:06, Jan Kiszka schrieb:
> > I'm thinking beyond this use case, beyond firmware flashes, beyond x86.
> >   
> 
> If you're thinking beyond x86, most flash is probably using SPI nowadays
> because the reduced PCB footprint can save lots of money. And for SPI
> you only need OOB access for write and the memory region itself is readonly.

CFI still seems pretty dominant, at least in evaluation boards, which seem
more likely to be a qemu target than custom hardware.

-Scott