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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 1/8] fw_cfg: max access size and region size


From: Peter Maydell
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 1/8] fw_cfg: max access size and region size are the same for MMIO data reg
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 21:47:21 +0000

On 16 December 2014 at 20:40, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> Honestly neither can I.  But still the automatic splitting (which is
> even tested by tests/endianness-test.c :)) assumes idempotency of the
> components and it's not entirely surprising that it somehow/sometimes
> breaks if you don't respect that.

Oh, good point. Yeah, I don't think we want to make any guarantee
about the order in which the N byte accesses hit the device if
we're assembling an N-byte access. Implementing the device as
a proper wide-access-supporting device is definitely the way to go.

-- PMM



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