On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 12:08:55PM -0400, Gregory Haskins wrote: > For Ira's example, the addresses would represent a physical address on > the PCI boards, and would follow any kind of relevant rules for > converting a "GPA" to a host accessible address (even if indirectly, via > a dma controller).
I don't think limiting addresses to PCI physical addresses will work well. From what I rememeber, Ira's x86 can not initiate burst transactions on PCI, and it's the ppc that initiates all DMA. > > > But we can't let the guest specify physical addresses. > > Agreed. Neither your proposal nor mine operate this way afaict. But this seems to be what Ira needs. > HTH > > Kind Regards, > -Greg > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
