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From: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
To: "Edgar E. Iglesias" <edgar.iglesias@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] device-to-device
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:21:19 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f43fc5580909190321i3b0f69a5v902b57294244a576@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090919042617.GA24944@laped.iglesias.mooo.com>

On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 7:26 AM, Edgar E. Iglesias
<edgar.iglesias@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Has anybody done some work on a qdev device-2-device infrastruture?
> For example to model DMA back channels or other device to device
> communication?

We should have a DMA object, with map/unmap methods to translate the
addresses to host pointers. Physical memory should implement the
object as well as any IOMMUs or other address translators like buses
(in some cases).

The interface to qdev could be much like chardev.

      reply	other threads:[~2009-09-19 10:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-19  4:26 [Qemu-devel] device-to-device Edgar E. Iglesias
2009-09-19 10:21 ` Blue Swirl [this message]

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