Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] write_zeroes/trim on the whole disk

2016-09-24 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 24.09.2016 19:33, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote: > On 24.09.2016 20:13, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote: >> I agree that requests larger than disk size are ugly.. But splitting >> request brings me again to idea of having separate command or flag >> for clearing the whole disk without th

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

2011-03-10 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Auf 11.03.2011 01:19, Jan Kiszka schrieb: > On 2011-03-10 23:10, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > >> Auf 10.03.2011 22:55, Jordan Justen schrieb: >> >>> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 13:37, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger >>> wrote: >>> >>>

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

2011-03-10 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Hi Jordan, thanks for your insights. Auf 10.03.2011 23:29, Jordan Justen schrieb: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 14:10, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger > wrote: > >> Auf 10.03.2011 22:55, Jordan Justen schrieb: >> >>> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 13:37, Car

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

2011-03-10 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Auf 10.03.2011 23:58, Jordan Justen schrieb: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 14:31, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger > wrote: > >> Right, the constant size argument is definitely a point we need to talk >> about. >> >> We could sidestep the issue by always using a 16 MByte

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

2011-03-10 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Auf 10.03.2011 23:14, Jordan Justen schrieb: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 13:52, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger > wrote: > >> Auf 10.03.2011 19:43, Jordan Justen schrieb: >> >>> I thought this might be a case where deviation from real hardware >>> emul

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

2011-03-10 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Auf 10.03.2011 22:55, Jordan Justen schrieb: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 13:37, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger > wrote: > >> Auf 10.03.2011 05:51, Jordan Justen schrieb: >> >>> I have documented a simple flash-like device which I think could be >>> useful for

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

2011-03-10 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Auf 10.03.2011 19:43, Jordan Justen schrieb: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 01:10, Avi Kivity wrote: > >> On 03/10/2011 06:51 AM, Jordan Justen wrote: >> >>> http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/System_Flash >>> >>> >> - make the programming interface the same as an existing device >> > Ho

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

2011-03-10 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Auf 10.03.2011 13:06, Jan Kiszka schrieb: > BTW, the programming granularity is not bytes but chips with common CFI. > But that's still tricky if you want to run code from the same chip while > updating parts of it. The easiest workaround would be handling the > overlay regions as ROM all the time.

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

2011-03-10 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Auf 10.03.2011 12:48, Gleb Natapov schrieb: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:27:55PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote: > >> On 2011-03-10 10:47, Gleb Natapov wrote: >> >>> Second. I asked how flash is programmed because interfaces like CFI >>> where you write into flash memory address range to issue com

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

2011-03-10 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Hi, as the lead developer of the open source flashrom utility I have to say that it would be nice to have Qemu emulate a flash chip. Right now flashrom is using its own flash chip emulator for testing, and being able to use flashrom in Qemu would be a nice addition. Auf

[Qemu-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] About cpu_set, CPU hotplug and related subjects

2010-05-11 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 28.04.2010 12:45, Gleb Natapov wrote: > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:41:51PM +0200, Jes Sorensen wrote: > >> The CPU declarations are particularly tricky as they get pretty big and >> complex and need to live in the DSDT, whereas a lot of other things we >> can shift off to separate SSDT tables

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: approaches to 3D virtualisation

2009-12-12 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 12.12.2009 13:08, Juan Quintela wrote: > - vmware_vga. Lets say that the way that it embeds an vga is > _interesting_ to say the less. Also the vga can be compiled out, but > not bios/os on earth will boot without its support. > The coreboot developers can boot Linux on all VIA chipset

Re: [Qemu-devel] Unclear committer situation

2009-12-03 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 02.12.2009 20:12, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Artyom Tarasenko wrote: >> I thought attaching a second copy were the way to send the patch >> properly. >> > > Attaching as an application/octet-stream is not terribly helpful. It > basically means you've attached a binary blob. > >> Is the proper

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH][SEABIOS] Make SMBIOS table pass MS SVVP test

2009-11-22 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 22.11.2009 18:39, Sebastian Herbszt wrote: > Gleb Natapov wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 05:51:41PM +0100, Sebastian Herbszt wrote: >>> Is the requirement for "Targeted Content Delivery" specified >>> somewhere with something more >>> clear than "SMBIOS data is useful in identifying the compu