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From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: jordan.l.justen@intel.com, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
	patches@linaro.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Use of flash for x86 BIOS (was: [PATCH 0/2] Implement migration support for pflash_cfi01)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 16:42:03 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFEAcA-iMobPLuWdPL3XOr-1gcJNGOVTfYD_6gUKdg+aG0bbVg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y5dh2o3j.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org>

On 21 March 2013 07:45, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
> [Note cc: Jordan, who added flash to x86 in commit bd183c79]
>
> Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:
>
>> These patches implement migration support for pflash_cfi01.
>> The first patch just drops some useless state so we don't
>> have to think about it for migration.
>>
>> NB that pflash_cfi01 is used in the x86 pc model. I think this
>> means that migration while the BIOS is accessing the flash
>> wouldn't have worked properly. Since migration from a device
>> with no vmstate to one with vmstate works OK this shouldn't
>> break cross-version migration. However x86 maintainers may
>> wish to review and confirm this for themselves...
>
> x86 maintainers may wish to *switch it off* until it's done fully and
> properly, by setting "pc-sysfw" property "rom_only" to 1.

So does that mean that these patches can't be applied until
the rom_only property is set, or is that a fix that can be made
independently?

thanks
-- PMM

  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-22 16:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-19 18:24 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Implement migration support for pflash_cfi01 Peter Maydell
2013-03-19 18:24 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] pflash_cfi01: Drop unused 'bypass' field Peter Maydell
2013-03-19 18:24 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] pflash_cfi01: Implement migration support Peter Maydell
2013-03-26 13:32   ` Peter Maydell
2013-03-21  7:45 ` [Qemu-devel] Use of flash for x86 BIOS (was: [PATCH 0/2] Implement migration support for pflash_cfi01) Markus Armbruster
2013-03-22 16:42   ` Peter Maydell [this message]
2013-03-22 18:51     ` [Qemu-devel] Use of flash for x86 BIOS Markus Armbruster
2013-03-22 19:09   ` [Qemu-devel] Use of flash for x86 BIOS (was: [PATCH 0/2] Implement migration support for pflash_cfi01) Jordan Justen
2013-03-22 19:48     ` [Qemu-devel] Use of flash for x86 BIOS Markus Armbruster
2013-04-03 13:48       ` Laszlo Ersek
2013-04-03 18:38       ` Jordan Justen
2013-04-12 15:33         ` Markus Armbruster
2013-04-08  6:06     ` Xiao Guangrong
2013-04-08  8:18       ` Jordan Justen
2013-04-08  8:43         ` Gleb Natapov
2013-04-08  9:19           ` Xiao Guangrong

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