From: "Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>
To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: juzhang@redhat.com, mst@redhat.com, jan.kiszka@siemens.com,
Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, agraf@suse.de, blauwirbel@gmail.com,
yamahata@valinux.co.jp, alex.williamson@redhat.com,
kevin@koconnor.net, avi@redhat.com, mkletzan@redhat.com,
pbonzini@redhat.com, lcapitulino@redhat.com, armbru@redhat.com,
kraxel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 01/13] pc/piix_pci: factor out smram/pam logic
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:26:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <509037FB.20000@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878vanvkwt.fsf@codemonkey.ws>
Am 30.10.2012 20:07, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> writes:
>
>> From: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
>>
>> Factor out smram/pam logic for later use.
>> Which will be used by q35 too.
>>
>> [jbaron@redhat.com: changes for updated memory API]
>> Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
>> Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
>
> This is really not the right approach to solving this problem.
>
> "pam" is not a device.
>
> Instead, the common bits here are essentially the northbridge logic.
> That's what we should model here.
>
> It's pretty simple actually. Just throw this all into a device where
> the memory regions are owned by the device. But also make the device
> own creation of all RAM (not just the areas controlled by PAM).
>
> Then embed the northbridge into the i440fx and q35.
Anthony/Wanpeng, any update on i440fx? Haven't heard of it since we
finally merged the PCI host bridge stuff for v1.2...
Regards,
Andreas
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-30 20:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-30 2:11 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 00/13] q35 patches for pci tree Jason Baron
2012-10-30 2:11 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 01/13] pc/piix_pci: factor out smram/pam logic Jason Baron
2012-10-30 19:07 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-10-30 20:26 ` Andreas Färber [this message]
2012-10-30 2:11 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 03/13] blockdev: Introduce QEMUMachine->default_drive_if Jason Baron
2012-10-30 19:08 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-10-30 2:11 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 02/13] Back out add of i21154 Jason Baron
2012-10-31 9:54 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-10-30 2:11 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 04/13] blockdev: Introduce IF_AHCI Jason Baron
2012-10-30 2:11 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 06/13] pc: Move ioapic_init() from pc_piix.c to pc.c Jason Baron
2012-10-31 10:02 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-10-30 2:11 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 05/13] pc, pc_piix: split out pc nic initialization Jason Baron
2012-10-30 19:09 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-10-31 9:57 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-10-30 2:11 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 07/13] q35: Introduce q35 pc based chipset emulator Jason Baron
2012-10-30 19:18 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-10-31 10:04 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-10-31 12:53 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-10-30 2:11 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 09/13] q35: Add kvmclock support Jason Baron
2012-10-30 2:11 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 08/13] q35: Suppress SMM BIOS initialization under KVM Jason Baron
2012-10-30 2:11 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 10/13] Add a fallback bios file search, if -L fails Jason Baron
2012-10-30 2:11 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 11/13] q35: automatically load the q35 dsdt table Jason Baron
2012-10-30 2:11 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 12/13] q35: fill in usb pci slots with -usb Jason Baron
2012-10-30 6:34 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2012-10-30 15:19 ` Jason Baron
2012-10-30 16:19 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2012-10-30 18:00 ` Jason Baron
2012-10-30 2:11 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 13/13] Fixup q35/ich9 Licenses Jason Baron
2012-10-31 8:59 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-10-31 9:34 ` Isaku Yamahata
2012-10-31 9:57 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-10-30 19:20 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 00/13] q35 patches for pci tree Anthony Liguori
2012-10-31 8:42 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-10-31 12:55 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-10-31 14:42 ` Jason Baron
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