Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] QOMification of AXI stream

[Anthony Liguori]

On 06/11/2012 08:39 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 11 June 2012 14:15, Anthony Liguori<address@hidden>  wrote:
> >  From what you said earlier, it's basically:
> >
> > 'write data to this address'
> > 'read data from this address'
> >
> > An interface that implements this is DMAContext.  Forget about the fact that
> > 'DMA' is in the name.  It's really the symmetric version of a MemoryRegion.
>
> ...so can we fix the name?

Perhaps we should just make MemoryRegion work in both directions?

Ben/Avi, what do you guys think?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Ideally the interface used by DMA controllers should be identical to
> the interface used by CPUs to talk to the rest of the system: it's
> exactly the same bus interface in hardware, after all.
>
> -- PMM