On 27 August 2014 17:58, Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]> wrote: > On 27 August 2014 18:03, Laszlo Ersek <[email protected]> wrote: >> - Why require a 64MB flash drive, if we only use 768 KB of it? >> > > The ARM Versatile Express development hardware is set up like this, > that is the whole and only reason. > I guess we could change it if there is a strong reason to do so, but > parity with the other emulated machines makes the maintenance job a > bit easier, I imagine.
Yeah, this isn't a strong requirement from the QEMU side, but the thought process went something like: * two flash devices is better than one, so we can allow a split between what kind of backing file they get (treating ROM image differently than non-volatile storage) * might as well be reasonably generous with the sizing, to allow for future expansion in what software uses * having an asymmetric "one small, one large" setup seems kind of weird * UEFI isn't necessarily the only user of this board model If we've done something silly with the way we've instantiated the flash device in QEMU that means it has a stupid large block size then we might be able to fix that. thanks -- PMM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ edk2-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/edk2-devel
