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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] sh4: define explicitly that the target CPU is 3


From: Paul Mundt
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] sh4: define explicitly that the target CPU is 32 bit
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 10:19:06 +0900
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 05:15:21PM +0000, Paul Brook wrote:
> On Friday 30 November 2007, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 04:28:09PM +0000, Paul Brook wrote:
> > in the sh4 specific case, it doesn't make sense for sh4 to print an access
> > error to a physical address that is 64 bit long when it is a 32 bit CPU and
> > that is what would happen unless the patch is applied.
> >
> > if anything the following definition from cpu-defs.h is invalid for a
> > representation of a 32 bit physical address :
> >
> > #define TARGET_FMT_plx "%016" PRIx64
> 
> Before you can fix that you probably need to fix the bits of qemu (TLB code) 
> that store a host pointer in a phys_addr_t. Or at least distance 
> TARGET_PHYS_ADDR_BITS from the definition of phys_addr_t, and include 
> appropriate comments.
> 
> In that case TARGET_PHYS_ADDR_BITS could be a precise value, rather than the 
> next multiple of 32. e.g. I think sparc32 has a 40-bit physical address 
> space.
> 
It also depends on how precise you want to make this. SH has configurable
29-bit and 32-bit physical, while MIPS and PPC both have 32 and 36-bit
physical implementations. Setting things to an arbitrary upper ceiling at
least prevents this from quickly entering ifdef hell territory.




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