From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:59541) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QwzGp-00008N-SV for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2011 12:28:40 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QwzGo-0002Jo-Te for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2011 12:28:39 -0400 Received: from mail-vw0-f45.google.com ([209.85.212.45]:46469) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QwzGo-0002Jh-Ng for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2011 12:28:38 -0400 Received: by vws17 with SMTP id 17so3410363vws.4 for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2011 09:28:38 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Richard Henderson Message-ID: <4E57C9AC.4040703@twiddle.net> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 06:28:28 -1000 From: Richard Henderson MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1314308722-14495-1-git-send-email-rth@twiddle.net> <1314308722-14495-7-git-send-email-rth@twiddle.net> <4E576264.2050200@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4E576264.2050200@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] target-alpha: Add high-resolution access to wall clock and an alarm. List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Peter Maydell , qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 08/25/2011 11:07 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 08/26/2011 05:51 AM, Peter Maydell wrote: >> Don't you need some magic around helper calls that read/write >> the time to keep -icount working? I don't understand this but >> Paolo does... > > Let's say I understand the theory (how icount relies on it) more than the practice (how the targets should do it). :) Heh. Well, let's say that while I've aped the other targets in how icount is treated in the translator, I have no idea what it is really supposed to accomplish, and so have never used it. r~