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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slow_map: minor improvements to ROM BAR handling
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:07:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B31DDD1.3070702@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B30ED34.2000000@suse.de>

On 12/22/2009 06:00 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> Plus, you have a fixed length instruction length, likely more regular
>> too.  I imagine powerpc is load/store, so you don't have to emulate a
>> zillion ALU instructions?
>>      
> Well, it's certainly doable (and easier than on x86). But I'm on the
> same position as you on the x86 side. Why increase the emulator size at
> least 10 times if we don't have to?
>    

I'm not suggesting you do, just expressing envy.

> Either way, people will report bugs when / if they actually start
> executing code off MMIO. So let's not care too much about it for now.
> Just make sure the read-only check is in.
>    

Yah.

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


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-12-23  9:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-22 11:10 [PATCH] slow_map: minor improvements to ROM BAR handling Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-12-22 12:05 ` Alexander Graf
2009-12-22 12:43   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-12-22 13:34     ` Alexander Graf
2009-12-22 15:19       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-12-22 15:23         ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-22 15:24           ` Alexander Graf
2009-12-22 15:28             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-12-22 15:36               ` Alexander Graf
2009-12-22 15:39                 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-22 15:41                   ` Alexander Graf
2009-12-22 15:47                     ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-22 16:00                       ` Alexander Graf
2009-12-22 16:05                         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-12-22 16:10                           ` Alexander Graf
2009-12-23  9:07                         ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-12-23  9:15                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-12-23  9:25                     ` Avi Kivity

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