From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:43478) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TTIOm-0008IQ-C3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:26:57 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TTIOh-0002zL-MU for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:26:56 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:44794 helo=mx2.suse.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TTIOh-0002yz-GE for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:26:51 -0400 Message-ID: <509037FB.20000@suse.de> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:26:35 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_F=E4rber?= MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <251d020bffc193ec3d9d4ca4a83f625b471b8407.1351561225.git.jbaron@redhat.com> <878vanvkwt.fsf@codemonkey.ws> In-Reply-To: <878vanvkwt.fsf@codemonkey.ws> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 01/13] pc/piix_pci: factor out smram/pam logic List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori , Wanpeng Li Cc: juzhang@redhat.com, mst@redhat.com, jan.kiszka@siemens.com, Jason Baron , 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 Am 30.10.2012 20:07, schrieb Anthony Liguori: > Jason Baron writes: >=20 >> From: Isaku Yamahata >> >> 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 >> Signed-off-by: Jason Baron >=20 > This is really not the right approach to solving this problem. >=20 > "pam" is not a device. >=20 > Instead, the common bits here are essentially the northbridge logic. > That's what we should model here. >=20 > 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). >=20 > 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 --=20 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imend=F6rffer; HRB 16746 AG N=FCrnbe= rg