On 19 October 2011 09:03, Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote: > <juha.riihim...@nokia.com> writes: >> both device models already support running without a drive as well by >> using a memory buffer instead so it would also be possible to make them >> use a read-only drive in a way that initial NAND/OneNAND contents would be >> read from the drive but any changes would not be written back to the drive >> and would be lost when QEMU is killed. > > Sounds like it could be useful, but it's not what I'd expect for > "readonly". > > You could create a boolean device property to make memory contents > transient rather than persistent. Then reject read-only drives only in > persistent mode, i.e. when the property is false. Feels cleaner to me.
That doesn't sound very onenand/nand specific to me, though. -- PMM
