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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] 64 bit I/O support v7


From: Paul Brook
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] 64 bit I/O support v7
Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 15:52:48 +0100
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> Here is a patch for most of the sparc32 hardware drivers.  It's
> a very trivial and mechanical process for these drivers.  The one
> driver that does 64 bit accesses just adds 64 bit access functions
> because it's broken now and has no workaround to remove.  I don't
> think converting most other drivers will be much harder.

sparc hardware is rather abnormal (for qemu at least) because it cares what 
happens when you use the wrong width. Most devices don't care, and having any 
NULL functions is liable to introduce significant overhead.

Paul




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