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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Rename target_phys_addr_t to Phys
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Peter Maydell |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Rename target_phys_addr_t to Phys |
Date: |
Thu, 5 Jan 2012 00:24:21 +0000 |
On 5 January 2012 00:16, Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 01/04/2012 05:33 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> A lot of the usage of target_phys_addr_t in hw/ is actually not
>> handling addresses at all, but merely offsets into device IO regions
>> (ie as parameters to device read/write functions)...
>
> Exactly, which is why using target_phys_addr_t (and subsequently building
> the device twice) doesn't make a lot of sense.
So should we have a hw_offset type for this? That would cut out a lot
of the noise and let us find out how much code in hw/ is actually
using physaddrs...
-- PMM