From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nulkr-0002dy-88 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:01:41 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52470 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nulko-0002bp-Ra for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:01:40 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nulkn-0001ou-EL for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:01:38 -0400 Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:49061) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nulkn-0001oq-Ck for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:01:37 -0400 Received: from mail.codesourcery.com ([38.113.113.100]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nulkm-0000Zg-Ld for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:01:37 -0400 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Compile files only once: some planning Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:01:32 +0000 References: <4BAA9B37.2060609@codemonkey.ws> <20100325082132.GA11221@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20100325082132.GA11221@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201003251201.33918.paul@codesourcery.com> List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: Blue Swirl , qemu-devel@nongnu.org > I'd prefer a generic address type since this makes it easier to > share code: for example virtio devices can use different busses, This is exactly why virtio devices should not be accessing memory. They should be doing everything via a virtqueue, which can interface with the host bindings appropriately. Paul