[PATCH qemu] aspeed: add support for a witherspoon-bmc board with 128MB flash chip

[Joel Stanley]

On Wed, 22 May 2019 at 06:14, Cédric Le Goater <clg at kaod.org> wrote:
>
> On 5/22/19 7:37 AM, Joel Stanley wrote:
> > On Mon, 20 May 2019 at 00:56, Andrew Jeffery <andrew at aj.id.au> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, 17 May 2019, at 15:56, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> >>> On 5/17/19 1:00 AM, Andrew Jeffery wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Fri, 17 May 2019, at 01:42, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> >>>>> Some Witherspoon boards are shipped with a mt25ql01g flash chip
> >>>>> holding the BMC firmware.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg at kaod.org>
> >>>>
> >>>> "witherspoon128-bmc" is not very creative, but I can't blame you for that :D
> >>>
> >>> he.
> >>>
> >>> Should we introduce a machine option to set the model name of the
> >>> FMC flash chip ? I think I tried that in the past but at the block
> >>> level and mainline did not like it. But we could try at the machine
> >>> level.
> >>>
> >>> Anyhow, it's a good way to debug flash issues on real HW.
> >>
> >> Eh. I'm not fussed by a new machine. I wouldn't do anything for the moment.
> >
> > We could instead add a swift machine with the 128MB NOR. When we get a
> > model for the SD/MMC it would use that too.
>
> OK. That's a good direction.

Adriana, could you take this on?