Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] 64 bit device I/O

[Paul Brook]

> > Would it be better to use a structure with four elements with correct
> > types (including uint8/16_t)  instead of the cast? This could also be
> > limited to only cpu_register_io_memory64.
>
> This is what I would prefer and is what the first version of this patch
> that I submitted a year ago did:   http://landley.net/qemu/2008-01-01.html
>
> The problem is that every hardware driver would need to be changed and
> some of them would need to be changed drastically because they use the
> same functions for all three data sizes.

You can always use the same prototype for the first 3 functions. In practice 
there's very little benefit for using types smaller than 32-bit on machines 
capable of runnit qemu.

Paul