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From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: seabios@seabios.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] [PATCH 02/18] virtio: run drivers in 32bit mode
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2015 09:12:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1435907542.26896.8.camel@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55962F84.1090902@redhat.com>

On Fr, 2015-07-03 at 08:45 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> On 29/06/2015 10:53, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > virtio version 1.0 registers can (and actually do in the qemu
> > implementation) live in mmio space.  So we must run the blk and
> > scsi virtio drivers in 32bit mode, otherwise we can't access them.
> > 
> > This also allows to drop a bunch of GET_LOWFLAT calls from the virtio
> > code in the following patches.
> 
> This isn't really necessary though.  The config access capability exists
> for this reason.  At least as a follow up it would be nice to add a switch.

Just saw mst's patch implementing it in qemu.  I'll have a look. 

I think I want keep the virtio drivers as 32bit drivers.  The modern
virtio bar is a 64bit though, so accessing via config access capability
might be needed even for the 32bit drivers in case it is mapped above
4G ...

cheers,
  Gerd

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-03  7:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-29  8:53 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/18] virtio: add version 1.0 support Gerd Hoffmann
2015-06-29  8:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/18] pci: allow to loop over capabilities Gerd Hoffmann
2015-06-29  8:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 02/18] virtio: run drivers in 32bit mode Gerd Hoffmann
2015-07-03  6:45   ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-07-03  7:12     ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2015-06-29  8:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 03/18] virtio: add struct vp_device Gerd Hoffmann
2015-06-29 12:48   ` [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] " Kevin O'Connor
2015-06-29 13:33     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2015-06-30  6:31       ` Gerd Hoffmann
2015-06-29  8:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 04/18] virtio: pass struct pci_device to vp_init_simple Gerd Hoffmann
2015-06-29  8:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/18] virtio: add version 1.0 structs and #defines Gerd Hoffmann
2015-06-29 13:19   ` [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] " Kevin O'Connor
2015-06-29 13:35     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2015-06-29 14:21       ` Kevin O'Connor
2015-06-29  8:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/18] virtio: find version 1.0 virtio capabilities Gerd Hoffmann
2015-06-29  8:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/18] virtio: add version 1.0 read/write macros Gerd Hoffmann
2015-06-29 13:02   ` [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] " Kevin O'Connor
2015-06-29 13:46     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2015-06-29 14:14       ` Kevin O'Connor
2015-06-29  8:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 08/18] virtio: make features 64bit, support version 1.0 features Gerd Hoffmann
2015-06-29  8:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 09/18] virtio: add version 1.0 support to vp_{get, set}_status Gerd Hoffmann
2015-06-29  8:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/18] virtio: add version 1.0 support to vp_get_isr Gerd Hoffmann
2015-06-29 14:00   ` [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] " Kevin O'Connor
2015-06-29 14:33     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2015-06-29 14:36       ` Kevin O'Connor
2015-06-29  8:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 11/18] virtio: add version 1.0 support to vp_reset Gerd Hoffmann
2015-06-29  8:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 12/18] virtio: add version 1.0 support to vp_notify Gerd Hoffmann
2015-06-29  8:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 13/18] virtio: remove unused vp_del_vq Gerd Hoffmann
2015-06-29  8:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 14/18] virtio: add version 1.0 support to vp_find_vq Gerd Hoffmann
2015-06-29  8:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 15/18] virtio-scsi: fix initialization for version 1.0 Gerd Hoffmann
2015-06-29  8:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 16/18] virtio-blk: " Gerd Hoffmann
2015-06-29  8:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 17/18] virtio: use version 1.0 if available (flip the big switch) Gerd Hoffmann
2015-06-29  8:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 18/18] virtio: also probe version 1.0 pci ids Gerd Hoffmann
2015-06-29 14:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] [PATCH 00/18] virtio: add version 1.0 support Kevin O'Connor

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