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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: RFC: emulation of system flash
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To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz>, Kevin O'Connor <kevin@koconnor.net>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Jordan Justen <jljusten@gmail.com>

On 2011-03-10 12:53, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 03/10/2011 12:46 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> Better define flash chips as qdev devices and make the attributes qdev
>> properties:
>>
>>      -device flash,image=...,base=...,overlay=...,overlay_start=...
>>
>> Images should be addressed by block device IDs and created via '-drive'
>> (likely requires a new interface type 'flash').
> 
> if=none will do.

Yeah, of course (already used for other host interfaces, if!=none is for
legacy use only).

Jan

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