On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 01:41:17PM -0800, Jordan Justen wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:21, Gleb Natapov <g...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 11:50:42AM -0800, Jordan Justen wrote: > >> > >> So, perhaps this feature should build upon the other feature you and > >> Jan are discussing. When will it become available? > >> > > When somebody will be motivated enough to send patches. If this was the > > only thing that stands in a way of QEMU having EFI firmware with CSM > > support it would have happened much faster though. > > Regarding the read-IO, write-IO, read-RAM, write-RAM slots feature for kvm... > > Unfortunately, this is not much related to the CSM issue. > > It sounds to me like this feature would be important for a good > implementation of flash support that covers both qemu & kvm. > > How big is this task? How can I find out more to see if I can help? > Having BIOS (or executable part of a flash) to be mapped as memory and rest of the flash to be IO does not require any special changes to KVM or QEMU. This is just a matter of implementing command line parsing and flash device emulation.
-- Gleb.