Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 07/11] ppc405_boards: Don't size flash memory to match backing image

[David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>]

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On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 08:01:35AM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> writes:
> 
> > Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> writes:
> >
> >> Machine "ref405ep" maps its flash memory at address 2^32 - image size.
> >> Image size is rounded up to the next multiple of 64KiB.  Useless,
> >> because pflash_cfi02_realize() fails with "failed to read the initial
> >> flash content" unless the rounding is a no-op.
> >>
> >> If the image size exceeds 0x80000 Bytes, we overlap first SRAM, then
> >> other stuff.  No idea how that would play out, but a useful outcomes
> >> seem unlikely.
> >>
> >> Map the flash memory at fixed address 0xFFF80000 with size 512KiB,
> >> regardless of image size, to match the physical hardware.
> >>
> >> Machine "taihu" maps its boot flash memory similarly.  The code even
> >> has a comment /* XXX: should check that size is 2MB */, followed by
> >> disabled code to adjust the size to 2MiB regardless of image size.
> >>
> >> Its code to map its application flash memory looks the same, except
> >> there the XXX comment asks for 32MiB, and the code to adjust the size
> >> isn't disabled.  Note that pflash_cfi02_realize() fails with "failed
> >> to read the initial flash content" for images smaller than 32MiB.
> >>
> >> Map the boot flash memory at fixed address 0xFFE00000 with size 2MiB,
> >> to match the physical hardware.  Delete dead code from application
> >> flash mapping, and simplify some.
> >
> > It seems to me the DEBUG_BOARD_INIT code is probably out of date cruft
> > that could be excised all together. But that doesn't stop this being
> > useful:
> 
> David, would you like me to excise DEBUG_BOARD_INIT?

If you have the chance to look at it, that would be great.

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