On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 13:04 +0800, Zhang, Xiantao wrote: > > Hollis Blanchard wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 12:39 +0800, Zhang, Xiantao wrote: > >> Hollis Blanchard wrote: > >>> Actually, (now that I try to build with it :) this doesn't work > for > >>> PowerPC, which defines (or rather, doesn't not define) > >>> CONFIG_HAS_IOPORT. > >> > >> You mean ppc has ioport , but you don't use current kvm io > >> infrastructure to handle it ? > > > > It's a matter of perspective. :) > > > > The PowerPC architecture has no "IO" instructions; therefore all IO > > accesses are MMIO. > > However, you can place devices with IO ports in a PowerPC system. In > > this case, the bridges are configured to translate MMIO accesses > > coming from the processor into IO port accesses on the bus. It is > > quite common to find standard x86 ISA devices, such as a SuperIO > > Thank you for your elaboration. > So, bridge emulation in qemu will take over the responsibility of the > translation for ppc?
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