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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [4261] Errors while registering ioports are not fatal (Glauber Costa).
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:29:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200804262229.03035.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48139A27.2030601@codemonkey.ws>

> > If you configure two devices with the same IO port I'd expect writes to
> > go to one or both of them, or cause a CPU fault. Just like when you have
> > overlapping memory ranges. The device doesn't suddenly disappear in a
> > puff of smoke because the OS assigned overlapping IO ranges.
>
> The issue isn't the guest OS assigning overlapping IO regions.  The
> issues is that some devices (like IDE), register ioports directly
> independently of PCI regions.

This is a device bug. They shouldn't do that. This is exactly the "manual 
configuring of IO regions" you mentioned.

Paul

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-26 21:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-26 16:04 [Qemu-devel] [4261] Errors while registering ioports are not fatal (Glauber Costa) Andrzej Zaborowski
2008-04-26 19:26 ` Paul Brook
2008-04-26 19:36   ` Anthony Liguori
2008-04-26 19:57     ` Paul Brook
2008-04-26 20:33       ` Anthony Liguori
2008-04-26 20:45       ` Glauber Costa
2008-04-26 19:57   ` andrzej zaborowski
2008-04-26 20:08     ` Paul Brook
2008-04-26 20:38       ` Anthony Liguori
2008-04-26 20:54         ` Paul Brook
2008-04-26 21:09           ` Anthony Liguori
2008-04-26 21:29             ` Paul Brook [this message]
2008-04-26 20:39     ` Glauber Costa
2008-04-26 20:43     ` Anthony Liguori
2008-04-26 21:18       ` andrzej zaborowski

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