Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 01/20] Hierarchical memory region API

[Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 03:09:38PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 06/28/2011 03:07 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> > >
> > >  The point is that different buses have different widths.
> > >  target_phys_addr_t matches just one bus in the system.  It needs to be
> > >  the maximum size of all buses present to be useful.
> >
> > Then we need a type for that. Or we need to demand that
> > target_phys_addr_t is defined large enough to support all buses that the
> > particular arch wants to address. Hardcoding 64 bit or anything is not
> > appropriate for a generic subsystem.
> 
> Okay, let's make t_p_a_t max(bus size in system).  Do we have 32-bit 
> targets that don't support pci (I guess, pc-isa with cpu < ppro?).  Do 
> we want to support a 32-bit variant of pci?  It certainly existed at 
> some point.

PCI always had a mechanism for 64-bits addresses even on 32-bits wide
bus, called Dual Address Cycle.  I'm not sure which was rarer: devices
which could handle it, or north bridges which could use it.  Probably
a tie.

But in theory, it was there.

  OG.