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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Memory API
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To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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On 05/18/2011 06:12 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> struct MemoryRegionOps {
>     MemoryReadFunc readb, readw, readl;
>     MemoryWriteFunc writeb, writew, writel;
> };

Look back to last May for a discussion between myself and Paul Brook
on this subject.  That started with me merely wanting to expand the
interface to support 8-byte reads/writes, and he wanting a fairly
substantial reorganization.

I'm not married to Paul's total reorg, but please include readq/writeq
support in any reorganization in this area.


r~