On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 10:48:40AM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote: > On Mon, 14 Nov 2022 at 19:08, Peter Delevoryas <pe...@pjd.dev> wrote: > > > > I've been using this patch for a long time so that I don't have to use > > dd to zero-extend stuff all the time. It's just doing what people are > > doing already, right? I hope it's not controversial. > > We just had a thread about this kind of thing for one of the > riscv boards (although there the attempted approach was to > change the size of the flash device to match the provided > file, rather than changing the file to match the flash device): > https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20221107130217.2243815-1-suni...@ventanamicro.com/
Thanks for linking this! > > The short summary is (a) yes, it's controversial and > (b) if we do something for this we need to have a standard > approach that we do on all boards, not "some boards do > some weird magic in different ways from everything else"... I see, that's ok, I'll investigate option (b) then. Thanks, Peter > > thanks > -- PMM
