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From: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
To: Sunil V L <sunilvl@ventanamicro.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
	Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>,
	Bin Meng <bin.meng@windriver.com>,
	Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>,
	qemu-riscv@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] hw/riscv: virt: Remove size restriction for pflash
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2022 15:50:44 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871qqehib4.fsf@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y2kRWNnk7wDxPnBK@sunil-laptop>


Sunil V L <sunilvl@ventanamicro.com> writes:

> On Mon, Nov 07, 2022 at 01:06:38PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On Mon, 7 Nov 2022 at 13:03, Sunil V L <sunilvl@ventanamicro.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > The pflash implementation currently assumes fixed size of the
>> > backend storage. Due to this, the backend storage file needs to be
>> > exactly of size 32M. Otherwise, there will be an error like below.
>> >
>> > "device requires 33554432 bytes, block backend provides 4194304 bytes"
>> >
>> > Fix this issue by using the actual size of the backing store.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Sunil V L <sunilvl@ventanamicro.com>
>> > ---
>> 
>> Do you really want the flash device size presented to the guest
>> to be variable depending on what the user passed as a block backend?
>> I don't think this is how we handle flash devices on other boards...
>> 
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> x86 appears to support variable flash but arm doesn't. What is
> the reason for not supporting variable size flash in arm?

If I recall from the last time we went around this is was the question
of what you should pad it with.

  https://patchew.org/QEMU/20190307093723.655-1-armbru@redhat.com/20190307093723.655-3-armbru@redhat.com/

>
> Thanks
> Sunil


-- 
Alex Bennée


  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-07 15:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-07 13:02 [PATCH V2] hw/riscv: virt: Remove size restriction for pflash Sunil V L
2022-11-07 13:06 ` Peter Maydell
2022-11-07 14:08   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2022-11-07 16:07     ` Markus Armbruster
2022-11-07 14:08   ` Sunil V L
2022-11-07 15:50     ` Alex Bennée [this message]
2022-11-07 16:19       ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2022-11-07 17:32         ` Andrew Jones
2022-11-07 17:34           ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2022-11-08 14:12             ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2022-11-08 14:49               ` Andrew Jones
2022-11-08 15:03               ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2022-11-09 15:26             ` Markus Armbruster
2022-11-09 15:30               ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2022-11-09 15:45                 ` Markus Armbruster
2022-11-09 15:51                   ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2022-11-07 16:08     ` Peter Maydell
2022-11-08 16:01       ` Markus Armbruster
2022-11-09 10:07         ` Sunil V L

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