Xiang Zheng a4b15a8b9e pflash: Only read non-zero parts of backend image
Currently we fill the VIRT_FLASH memory space with two 64MB NOR images
when using persistent UEFI variables on virt board. Actually we only use
a very small(non-zero) part of the memory while the rest significant
large(zero) part of memory is wasted.

So this patch checks the block status and only writes the non-zero part
into memory. This requires pflash devices to use sparse files for
backends.

Signed-off-by: Xiang Zheng <zhengxiang9@huawei.com>

[ kraxel: rebased to latest master ]

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20221220084246.1984871-1-kraxel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2023-01-24 18:26:41 +01:00
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