Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 4/4] kvm: i386: Add classic PCI device assignment

[Alexander Graf]

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
>