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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Use of flash for x86 BIOS
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To: Jordan Justen <jljusten@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, patches@linaro.org, jordan.l.justen@intel.com, Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

On 03/23/2013 03:09 AM, Jordan Justen wrote:

> Admittedly, I've been completely ineffectual in resolving the kvm
> portion. More recently I tried to make use of KVM_MEM_READONLY to
> address this. I was able to get an VM exit on writes to flash, but not
> able to get the memory region to convert to full device mode so VM
> exits would occur on reads as well. I am once again stalled...

Hi Jordan,

What's memory region you want to get? I should admit that I do not
have enough background of flash, could you please explain this
requirement more detail?

Thanks!