Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] exec: fix regression by making system-memory region UINT64_MAX size

[Marcel Apfelbaum]

On Thu, 2013-11-07 at 22:31 +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 07/11/2013 22:24, Marcel Apfelbaum ha scritto:
> > Thank you Laszlo for the detailed info!
> > I think the problem is right above. Why pci-hole and system.flash collide?
> > IMHO we should not play with priorities here, better solve the collision.
> 
> We need to audit all the other boards that support PCI...  I'll take a
> look tomorrow since you guys are off.
Thanks Paolo,
Let me just point out what I know (or I think I know):
1. Not all architectures have the behavior: "Address space that is not RAM(and 
friends) is for sure PCI".
   Only x86 behaves like this (I think). That means that you cannot have a 
64bit wide pci-hole
   with lower priority that catches all accesses that are not for RAM(and 
firends).
2. If the above is right, and making pci-hole 64 bit wide is not an option,
   playing with pci-holes/other-region priorities it would be just wrong,
   it would be only to "fight" with the locality of the memory region's 
priority.

That being said, I am looking forward for your findings.
Thanks!
Marcel
  
> 
> Paolo