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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] vga: Fix portio list conversion fallouts
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:22:21 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E7733FD.3080006@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E76417C.50301@web.de>

On 09/18/2011 10:07 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> >  I don't think it should be deduplicated.  The device is providing two
> >  separate ABIs.
>
> Yes, two ABIs, and the only difference is the offset of the data register.

How about

#ifdef TARGET_I386
# define VBE_DATA_REG 1
#else
# define VBE_DATA_REG 2
#endif


> >
> >  Why disallow it?
>
> Did anyone check that something useful or at least valid comes out of
> the handlers when doing this so far impossible access?
>

It's a general problem.  It can't be fixed in devices, the core has to 
handle this (and devices have to tell it how to react to such accesses).

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

      reply	other threads:[~2011-09-19 12:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-18 12:44 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] vga: Fix portio list conversion fallouts Jan Kiszka
2011-09-18 15:51 ` Avi Kivity
2011-09-18 16:28   ` Jan Kiszka
2011-09-18 16:51     ` Avi Kivity
2011-09-18 19:07       ` Jan Kiszka
2011-09-19 12:22         ` Avi Kivity [this message]

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