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Date:      Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:41:00 -0600
From:      Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>
To:        Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-projects@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r227772 - in projects/pseries: amd64/amd64 amd64/conf amd64/ia32 amd64/include amd64/linux32 arm/arm arm/at91 arm/conf arm/econa arm/include arm/mv arm/sa11x0 arm/xscale/i80321 arm/xsca...
Message-ID:  <4EC9D65C.6050106@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <4EC98E99.9000601@freebsd.org>
References:  <201111202147.pAKLlR0i010700@svn.freebsd.org> <4EC98E99.9000601@freebsd.org>

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On 11/20/11 17:34, Peter Grehan wrote:
> Hi Nathan,
>
>>    IFC @ r227771. Of particular interest here are virtio drivers, which
>>    should be useful for the QEMU pSeries emulation.
>
>  One thing to look out for is that the virtio spec has PCI register 
> access in host-order, so you may need to switch in big-endian bus ops.
>
> later,
>
> Peter.

Is it worth making some generic way to avoid regular bus accessors? It 
also needs to avoid regular bus dma calls, since the spec indicates 
finger-of-God accesses that bypass any emulated IOMMU that busdma would 
ordinarily try to use.
-Nathan



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