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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Jordan Justen <jljusten@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Implement PC port80 debug register.
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:36:43 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A48DF8B.7050606@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2a50f7880906290826t4128b11dyc68a36fd01e8208c@mail.gmail.com>

On 06/29/2009 06:26 PM, Jordan Justen wrote:
> Avi,
>
> Well, I am not sure if this it globally the case for PC motherboards, 
> but in my experience, it has been read/write.

It's just some random memory that might not actually be grounded in reality.

>
> At least for a system such as qemu, it make it difficult to use the 
> port80 checkpoint of software without being able to read the last 
> value written.

Why would software ever need to read it?  You want a monitor command so 
the user can read it.  I don't recall ever seeing a read of port 80 (I 
don't have any objections to that though).

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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-06-29 15:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-29  8:05 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Implement PC port80 debug register Jordan Justen
2009-06-29 13:47 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-06-29 14:17   ` Paul Brook
2009-06-29 14:23   ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-29 14:34     ` Chris Lalancette
2009-06-29 15:26     ` Jordan Justen
2009-06-29 15:31       ` Anthony Liguori
2009-06-29 16:07         ` Jordan Justen
2009-06-29 17:11           ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-29 18:39             ` Anthony Liguori
2009-06-29 18:43               ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-29 18:46               ` Alexander Graf
2009-06-29 18:57                 ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-29 19:00                 ` Jordan Justen
2009-06-29 19:02               ` Jordan Justen
2009-07-01  7:39               ` Jordan Justen
2009-07-09 18:58                 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-06-29 15:36       ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-06-29 21:53         ` Jamie Lokier
2009-06-29 23:18         ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger

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