From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: Robert Reif <reif@earthlink.net>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [5849] Change MMIO callbacks to use offsets, not absolute addresses.
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:12:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200902240112.28240.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49A347DD.3030906@earthlink.net>
> How do you propose having the hardware drivers generate meaningful and
> timely faults when an improper access is performed so it behaves like real
> low level software expects the hardware to behave?
If you're wanting to generate faults from IO devices then getting the right
physical address is the least of your concerns. First you need to figure out
how to avoid corrupting the rest of the CPU state.
Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-24 1:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-01 18:59 [Qemu-devel] [5849] Change MMIO callbacks to use offsets, not absolute addresses Paul Brook
2009-02-23 12:18 ` Robert Reif
2009-02-23 12:36 ` Paul Brook
2009-02-23 12:42 ` Robert Reif
2009-02-23 13:16 ` Paul Brook
2009-02-23 16:43 ` Robert Reif
2009-02-23 17:04 ` Paul Brook
2009-02-24 0:08 ` Robert Reif
2009-02-24 0:30 ` Paul Brook
2009-02-24 1:05 ` Robert Reif
2009-02-24 1:12 ` Paul Brook [this message]
2009-02-24 1:27 ` Robert Reif
2009-02-24 1:50 ` Paul Brook
2009-02-24 21:04 ` Blue Swirl
2009-02-24 22:28 ` Paul Brook
2009-02-25 19:54 ` Blue Swirl
2009-02-26 15:19 ` Paul Brook
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