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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC v1] Add declarations for hierarchical memory
 region API
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 09:46:16 -0500
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On 05/20/2011 09:40 AM, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On 05/20/2011 07:31 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> But is this a characteristic of devices or is this a characteristic of the chipset/CPU?
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> Chipset.

So if the chipset only allows accesses that are 64-bit, then you'll want 
to have hierarchical dispatch filter non 64-bit accesses and raise an 
MCE appropriately.

So you don't need anything in MemoryRegion, you need code in the 
dispatch path.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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