Re: [PATCH V2] hw/riscv: virt: Remove size restriction for pflash

[Peter Maydell]

On Mon, 7 Nov 2022 at 13:03, Sunil V L <sunilvl@ventanamicro.com> wrote:
>
> The pflash implementation currently assumes fixed size of the
> backend storage. Due to this, the backend storage file needs to be
> exactly of size 32M. Otherwise, there will be an error like below.
>
> "device requires 33554432 bytes, block backend provides 4194304 bytes"
>
> Fix this issue by using the actual size of the backing store.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sunil V L <sunilvl@ventanamicro.com>
> ---

Do you really want the flash device size presented to the guest
to be variable depending on what the user passed as a block backend?
I don't think this is how we handle flash devices on other boards...

thanks
-- PMM