Re: [Qemu-devel] Sparc system patch 12

[Antony T Curtis]

On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 20:25, Blue Swirl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I looked at the data sheets of the both chips and your driver. Good news is 
> that all the 16-bit data structures used in Sparc are implemented in your 
> driver. Bad news is that the endianness bit (CSR3 BSWP) is not implemented 
> in either driver, and both assume different endianness.

Since QEMU dynamically translates code, is it that important for the
endianness bit as it only affects the device registers?

> Then there is Sparc-specific I/O MMU, which translates device virtual 
> addresses issued by the DMA controller to physical ones. It needs to fix all 
> memory accesses, but this is easy.
> 
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