Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] sparc64: use pci_mem_base

[Paul Brook]

On Wednesday 17 June 2009, Igor Kovalenko wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:13 AM, Paul Brook<address@hidden> wrote:
> >> Fortunately there exists global pci_mem_base variable which
> >> is used by pci_to_cpu_addr() but it seems to be only called
> >> while clearing pci memory mapping.
> >
> > I think this is the wrong way to fix this. Better would be for the map
> > functions to go away altogether.
>
> Like pci bus would handle that memory address mapping between
> devices and cpu?

Yes. In fact individual devices generally shouldn't need to know about the 
mappings at all. They should just provide a handler for accesses via a 
particular BAR.

Paul