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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: RFC: emulation of system flash
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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>

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

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