Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 02/13] Implement cpu_physical_memory_set()

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 11:45 +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> > Why should this be in the core API?  Shouldn't this be a helper on
> > top of the DMA API?
> 
> Well, I was hoping to avoid having to allocate a temporary buffer of
> zeroes, which is necessary to do this in terms of the existing
> cpu_physical_memory_write() api.

and which I ended up doing anyway in the latest patch following previous
reviews where people barfed at having a duplication of the code to
access the guest memory :-)

Cheers,
Ben.