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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: "Alex Williamson" <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
	"Prasad Joshi" <prasadjoshi124@gmail.com>,
	"André Weidemann" <Andre.Weidemann@web.de>,
	"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Oswaldo Cadenas" <oswaldo.cadenas@gmail.com>,
	"Nikolaev, Maxim" <maxim.nikolaev@siemens.com>
Subject: Re: Graphics pass-through
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 17:14:31 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DCA99C7.60408@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DCA97F5.20106@siemens.com>

On 05/11/2011 05:06 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> >
> >  I doubt it.  A 64-bit BAR would be configured as 32-bit on an older
> >  BIOS, no?
> >
> >  I'd guess 64-bit BARs are only needed for large BARs.
> >
>
> The BIOS can't configure the bars to 64 bit as it does not know which
> type of OS (32 or 64 bits) is going to pick them up.

If it's a really large BAR, it has no choice.  BTW, a 32-bit OS can 
handle 64-bit BARs, all it needs is PAE or PSE-36.

> But maybe 64-bit
> Windows reconfigures the bars before it starts the driver. Would we
> support this?

Yes.  qemu doesn't know if it's the BIOS reprogramming the BARs or the 
OS.  Of course unmap+remap is not a heavily tested code path.

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


  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-11 16:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <AANLkTikNHRcDquYOL3NhsxkkBYcE48nMyu4+t8t=19e7@mail.gmail.com>
2011-01-25 23:03 ` Fwd: Graphics pass-through Prasad Joshi
2011-01-26  5:12   ` Alex Williamson
2011-01-26  8:17     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2011-01-27 11:56     ` André Weidemann
2011-01-28  0:45       ` Alex Williamson
2011-01-28 17:29         ` André Weidemann
2011-01-28 16:25           ` Alex Williamson
2011-05-05  8:50         ` Jan Kiszka
2011-05-05 15:17           ` Alex Williamson
2011-05-09 11:14             ` Jan Kiszka
2011-05-09 14:29               ` Alex Williamson
2011-05-09 15:02                 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-05-09 14:55               ` Prasad Joshi
2011-05-09 15:27                 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-05-09 15:40                   ` Prasad Joshi
2011-05-09 15:48                   ` Alex Williamson
2011-05-09 16:00                     ` Jan Kiszka
2011-05-11 11:25                     ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-11 13:08                       ` Jan Kiszka
2011-05-11 13:26                         ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-11 13:50                           ` Jan Kiszka
2011-05-11 13:54                             ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-11 14:06                               ` Jan Kiszka
2011-05-11 14:14                                 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2011-05-11 11:23                   ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-11 12:31                     ` Jan Kiszka
2011-05-10 10:53                 ` Gerd Hoffmann

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