On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Olivier Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Roy Franz [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: 14 January 2014 01:31
>> To: Olivier Martin
>> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; linaro-
>> uefi; Patch Tracking
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] Move RTSM VExpress variable storage to 256k
>> flash blocks
>>
>> > I have to admit I prefer the solution 2) - but I am quite open to any
>> valid arguments. My argument is I would prefer to expose the correct
>> implementation when possible. And if qEmu adds support for the missing
>> VExpress IP block in the future then it will be easier to restore the
>> correct approach (ie: the default RTSM approach) for qEmu.  I don't
>> think that the flash will every be fixed in QEMU, since accurate
>> modeling of flash writing is not all that valuable of a feature.
>>
>> I can add a compile option for the flash, as I have done for the
>> networking.  The networking required this due to conflicting ethernet
>> devices.  (And here QEMU matches real hardware, and it is RTSM that is
>> 'wrong'.)  I think that the value of a common binary for a common case
>> is worth the cost of moving the variable storage to larger blocks, but
>> if you remain unconvinced I'll resubmit the patch with a build option
>> :)  (and in that case I will also resubmit the networking patch so the
>> same build option is used for both QEMU related changes.)
>>
>
> Nice try! but I remain unconvinced :-)
> From what you said, we will need a compiler flag for the Ethernet driver 
> anyway. So let's go for it :-)
> And it will quite easy to 'grep' for SUPPORT_QEMU to highlight the difference 
> between the different models than to go through the git history to find out 
> the workaround which has been made to use UEFI on qEmu.
>
>
>
OK :)  I'll redo both changes into 1 series, both keying off the
SUPPORT_QEMU build define.

Thanks,
Roy

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