Re: bus_space/bus_dma and PAE

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:30:43AM +0100, Christoph Egger wrote:
> Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I started looking at PCI passthough for Xen, and as part of this
> > at getting a XEN3PAE i386 kernel building (which is usefull if we ever want
> > to suppport native i386 PAE too). The attached patch allows to build
> > a XEN3PAE_XENU kernel with bus_space and bus_dma linked in.
> > What it does is change bus_addr_t to be paddr_t (so its size changes with
> > options PAE); and remplace a view bus_addr_t with vaddr_t where
> > the value is used as a virtual address (and so is not a physical bus
> > address, strictly speaking).
> > 
> > comment ?
> 
> Does that finally allow us to use the BIOS memory map code in
> x86/x86/x86_machdep.c generally in Xen ?

Of what use would this be ? DomU don't have access to the BIOS map AFAIK,
and I can't see what this would buy us to fake one.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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