From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:53288) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RutPX-0005fV-Qn for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:21:19 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RutPT-0002xf-DN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:21:15 -0500 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:42842 helo=mx2.suse.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RutPT-0002xP-4k for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:21:11 -0500 Message-ID: <4F31A346.9050300@suse.de> Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:18:46 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_F=E4rber?= MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Sanity List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: malc Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Am 07.02.2012 19:22, schrieb malc: > This is a 32bit machine, the target is i386-softmmu, yet, > libhw32 is mostly empty and libhw64 is populated, [snip] I believe some people felt a need to emulate PAE or something which needed a physical address space of 36 bits, therefore i386 was switched from 32 bits to 64 bits. Similar for ppc recently. Lately there was also some discussion about dropping libhw32 and target_phys_addr_t altogether and making all devices 64-bit. Andreas --=20 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imend=F6rffer; HRB 16746 AG N=FCrnbe= rg