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

[Cédric Le Goater]

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:
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>> On Fri, 17 May 2019, at 15:56, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
>>> On 5/17/19 1:00 AM, Andrew Jeffery wrote:
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>>>> 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>
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>>>> "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.
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>> 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. 

C.