Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 12/12] hw: move memory API to hw/core

[Peter Maydell]

On 11 April 2013 18:09, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> Il 11/04/2013 18:28, Peter Maydell ha scritto:
>> On 11 April 2013 17:10, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> > Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
>> This doesn't look right. The MemoryRegion system isn't
>> hw-specific, it's a part of the basic QEMU emulation
>> system which provides functionality to hw/ and other
>> things (like cputlb.c).
>
> The accelerator- and target-independent parts of the basic emulation are
> already in hw/core (not much really, but consider that CPUs are device
> and depend on hw/core/qdev.c).  The memory API is simply the interface
> between the accelerators and hw/ (boards & device models).

Yes, so it should be provided in the place we put our accelerator
implementation (ie .): it is functionality and interface exposed
*to* the code in hw/, not functionality and interface provided
*by* hw/.

-- PMM