Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V5 1/8] isa: add isa_address_space_io

[Jan Kiszka]

On 2012-08-28 17:42, Julien Grall wrote:
> On 08/24/2012 05:10 PM, Andreas Färber wrote:
>> Am 22.08.2012 14:27, schrieb Julien Grall:
>>    
>>> This function permits to retrieve ISA IO address space.
>>> It will be usefull when we need to pass IO address space as argument.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Julien Grall<address@hidden>
>>> ---
>>>   hw/isa-bus.c |    5 +++++
>>>   hw/isa.h     |    1 +
>>>   2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/hw/isa-bus.c b/hw/isa-bus.c
>>> index f9b2373..662c86b 100644
>>> --- a/hw/isa-bus.c
>>> +++ b/hw/isa-bus.c
>>> @@ -244,4 +244,9 @@ MemoryRegion *isa_address_space(ISADevice *dev)
>>>       return get_system_memory();
>>>   }
>>>
>>> +MemoryRegion *isa_address_space_io(ISADevice *dev)
>>> +{
>>> +    return get_system_io();
>>> +}
>>>      
>> Unlike the address_space above, there's an address_space_io field in
>> ISABus, so I guess the implementation of this function should rather
>> obtain the device's BusState via isa_bus_from_device(dev) and return its
>> field rather than hardcoding get_system_io() here.
>>    
> I use this function in hw/dma.c. For the moment, the code doesn't
> use ISA device, so I pass NULL to isa_address_space_io
> (See patch 6).

Yes, there are some old drivers in QEMU that doesn't follow QOM or even
qdev patterns. They may not work on systems Andreas is thinking of anyway.

But this is a generic service, so it should try harder: If a device is
given, use the io space of its bus. If not, fall back to isabus.

Jan

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