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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 4/4] kvm: i386: Add classic PCI devic
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Alexander Graf |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 4/4] kvm: i386: Add classic PCI device assignment |
Date: |
Sat, 8 Sep 2012 11:28:52 +0200 |
On 08.09.2012, at 10:06, Blue Swirl <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Avi Kivity <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 09/05/2012 10:04 PM, Blue Swirl wrote:
>>>
>>> Reinventing a disassembler for ever growing x86 assembly is
>>> no fun.
>>
>> We can try linking to a disassembler library. I use udis86 to
>> disassemble instructions in kvm tracepoints
>> (http://udis86.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=udis86/udis86;a=shortlog),
>> it's maintained but not heavily so.
>
> I think commonality with KVM would be preferred. The library looks
> neat and based on changelog, more actively developed than BSD DDB.
>
>>
>> Of course for non-x86 we'd need to continue using binutils; this is
>> about copying code vs. libraries, not about licensing.
>
> For most architectures, pre-GPLv3 binutils is good enough since the
> instruction set does not change anymore. Maybe only PPC and Sparc64
> still change besides x86. New CPUs types more recent than 2007 will
> have problems.
Alternatively we could try to run the disassembler in a different process,
right?
Alex
>
>>
>>
>> --
>> error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
>
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] kvm: i386: Add classic PCI device assignment, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 4/4] kvm: i386: Add classic PCI device assignment, Alexander Graf, 2012/09/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 4/4] kvm: i386: Add classic PCI device assignment, Blue Swirl, 2012/09/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] kvm: i386: Add classic PCI device assignment, Eric Blake, 2012/09/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] kvm: i386: Add classic PCI device assignment, Blue Swirl, 2012/09/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] kvm: i386: Add classic PCI device assignment, Avi Kivity, 2012/09/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] kvm: i386: Add classic PCI device assignment, Blue Swirl, 2012/09/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 4/4] kvm: i386: Add classic PCI device assignment,
Alexander Graf <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 4/4] kvm: i386: Add classic PCI device assignment, Blue Swirl, 2012/09/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 4/4] kvm: i386: Add classic PCI device assignment, Alexander Graf, 2012/09/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 4/4] kvm: i386: Add classic PCI device assignment, Blue Swirl, 2012/09/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 4/4] kvm: i386: Add classic PCI device assignment, Alexander Graf, 2012/09/08