I've been using this patch for a long time so that I don't have to use dd to zero-extend stuff all the time. It's just doing what people are doing already, right? I hope it's not controversial.
One note: I couldn't figure out how to make it work without changing the permissions on the block device to allow truncation. If somebody knows how to avoid the `blk_get_perm`, `blk_set_perm` calls here, let me know! Thanks, Peter Peter Delevoryas (1): hw/arm/aspeed: Automatically zero-extend flash images hw/arm/aspeed.c | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) -- 2.38.1
