Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] arm: add fw_cfg to "virt" board

[Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>]

On 12/08/14 22:34, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 8 December 2014 at 21:19, Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com> wrote:
>> So the following in addition makes it work on TCG (x86_64) too:
>>
>> -----------------
>> diff --git a/hw/nvram/fw_cfg.c b/hw/nvram/fw_cfg.c
>> index 7147fea..c2bc44c 100644
>> --- a/hw/nvram/fw_cfg.c
>> +++ b/hw/nvram/fw_cfg.c
>> @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
>>  #include "qemu/config-file.h"
>>
>>  #define FW_CFG_SIZE 2
>> -#define FW_CFG_DATA_SIZE 1
>> +#define FW_CFG_DATA_SIZE 8
>>  #define TYPE_FW_CFG "fw_cfg"
>>  #define FW_CFG_NAME "fw_cfg"
>>  #define FW_CFG_PATH "/machine/" FW_CFG_NAME
>> -----------------
>>
>> It affects the memory_region_init_io() call in fw_cfg_initfn().
>>
>> I hope to submit a small v3 series soon.
> 
> If you do that don't you now try to define an ioport on
> x86 that's 8 bytes wide? You probably also need to check
> whether the ppc and sparc boards that use mmio fw_cfg
> can handle the wider data register.

The above was just a quick PoC. The series I'm about to post takes care
not to change anything (not even gdb experience) for clients that don't
request the wider register.

Thanks
Laszlo