[Qemu-devel] RE: [PATCH 4/5] kvmppc: Translate eaddr for fsl_booke mmu

[Hollis Blanchard]

On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 10:44 +0800, Liu Yu-B13201 wrote:
> 
> > IMHO userspace should do the translation and do an ioctl to 
> > fetch the  
> > required information (soft TLB cache / SLB / SDR1) so we can 
> > reuse the  
> > existing qemu infrastructure.
> > 
> 
> BOOK3S has mmu implement in qemu, but BOOKE doesn't.

Even if it did, I'd be skeptical. But you're right that that's a
critical point: as things stand today, only KVM (not qemu) emulates the
Book E MMU.

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Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center