Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: NVRAM for pseries machine

2012-09-24 Thread Alexander Graf
On 21.09.2012, at 05:08, David Gibson wrote: > Below is a patch which implements the (PAPR mandated) NVRAM for the > pseries machine. It raises a couple of generic questions. > > First, this adds a new "nvram" machine option which is used to give a > block device id to back the NVRAM so it is p

[Qemu-devel] RFC: NVRAM for pseries machine

2012-09-20 Thread David Gibson
Below is a patch which implements the (PAPR mandated) NVRAM for the pseries machine. It raises a couple of generic questions. First, this adds a new "nvram" machine option which is used to give a block device id to back the NVRAM so it is persistent. Since some sort of NVRAM is quite common, it