Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] honor IDE_DMA_BUF_SECTORS

[Stefano Stabellini]

Avi Kivity wrote:

> I think that's for pio, or maybe older DMA?  Certainly you wouldn't 
> expect to be limited to 16 sectors DMA.


Thanks for clarifying.

 
> Anyway I think IDE_DMA_BUF_SECTORS was a qemu limitation and did not 
> model real hardware behaviour.
> 


Therefore I must assume that we expect qemu to be able to handle any
kind of dma request coming from the guest, which at the moment is
limited to 64K sectors, am I right?