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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Jordan Justen <jljusten@gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>,
	Kevin O'Connor <kevin@koconnor.net>,
	qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz>
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: RFC: emulation of system flash
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 11:10:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D789588.1060108@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik3tjjsbn9RuGC1MOq_eZB22aAUDsKuq7MBy=rf@mail.gmail.com>

On 03/10/2011 06:51 AM, Jordan Justen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have documented a simple flash-like device which I think could be
> useful for qemu/kvm in some cases.  (Particularly for allowing
> persistent UEFI non-volatile variables.)
>
> http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/System_Flash
>
> Let me know if you have any suggestions or concerns.

Looks pretty nice.  Two suggestions:

- make the flash storage a standard qemu block device.  This allows 
snapshotting, block-live-migration, and other nice features.
- make the programming interface the same as an existing device

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-10  9:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-10  4:51 [Qemu-devel] RFC: emulation of system flash Jordan Justen
2011-03-10  9:10 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2011-03-10 18:43   ` [Qemu-devel] " Jordan Justen
2011-03-10 21:52     ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2011-03-10 22:14       ` Jordan Justen
2011-03-10 22:31         ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2011-03-10 22:58           ` Jordan Justen
2011-03-10 23:41             ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2011-03-11  2:12               ` Jordan Justen
2011-03-10  9:47 ` Gleb Natapov
2011-03-10 11:27   ` Jan Kiszka
2011-03-10 11:46     ` Jan Kiszka
2011-03-10 11:53       ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-03-10 12:07         ` Jan Kiszka
2011-03-10 19:03       ` Jordan Justen
2011-03-10 19:23         ` Anthony Liguori
2011-03-10 20:05           ` Jordan Justen
2011-03-10 11:48     ` Gleb Natapov
2011-03-10 12:06       ` Jan Kiszka
2011-03-10 12:17         ` Gleb Natapov
2011-03-10 12:27           ` Jan Kiszka
2011-03-10 19:08             ` Jordan Justen
2011-03-10 19:13               ` Gleb Natapov
2011-03-10 21:46         ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2011-03-10 22:11           ` Scott Wood
2011-03-10 21:41       ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2011-03-10 22:05         ` Jordan Justen
2011-03-10 18:59   ` Jordan Justen
2011-03-10 19:12     ` Gleb Natapov
2011-03-10 19:50       ` Jordan Justen
2011-03-10 20:08         ` Антон Кочков
2011-03-10 20:21         ` Gleb Natapov
2011-03-11 21:41           ` Jordan Justen
2011-03-14 14:29             ` Gleb Natapov
2011-03-10 21:37 ` [Qemu-devel] " Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2011-03-10 21:55   ` Jordan Justen
2011-03-10 22:10     ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2011-03-10 22:29       ` Jordan Justen
2011-03-10 23:53         ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2011-03-11  0:19       ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2011-03-11  0:27         ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2011-03-11 19:09           ` Jordan Justen
2011-03-11 23:10             ` Michal Suchanek
2011-03-12  9:24             ` Jan Kiszka

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