From: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <f4bug@amsat.org>
To: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>,
BALATON Zoltan <balaton@eik.bme.hu>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, qemu-ppc@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 0/5] Mac Old World ROM experiment (ppc/mac_* clean ups and loading binary ROM)
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:05:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7c34f053-268e-6dbf-205f-48792328ebe8@amsat.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <005ed95d-65ee-ab36-c068-e96a773ef8ed@ilande.co.uk>
On 10/16/20 11:58 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> On 16/10/2020 00:47, BALATON Zoltan via wrote:
>
>> This is the cut down version of the earlier series omitting unfinished
>> patches that I plan to rework later and rebased to Mark's qemu-macppc
>> branch. Compared to v7 the only change is the cast to (target_ulong)
>> from (uint32_t) as requested by Mark in patch 1.
>
> FWIW the reason for suggesting the cast to target_ulong is so that the
> same code works for both qemu-system-ppc and qemu-system-ppc64. For
> qemu-system-ppc that should correctly drop the sign extension from
> 32-bit, whilst still allowing someone to load a 64-bit ELF into
> qemu-system-ppc64 if requested.
IMO this is part of a bigger design problem. Not all
machines main bus is 64-bit. I did some experiments
but changing that involves a lot of work.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-16 13:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-15 23:47 [PATCH v8 0/5] Mac Old World ROM experiment (ppc/mac_* clean ups and loading binary ROM) BALATON Zoltan via
2020-10-15 23:47 ` [PATCH v8 4/5] mac_oldworld: Drop some variables BALATON Zoltan via
2020-10-15 23:47 ` [PATCH v8 1/5] mac_oldworld: Allow loading binary ROM image BALATON Zoltan via
2020-10-15 23:47 ` [PATCH v8 5/5] mac_oldworld: Change PCI address of macio to match real hardware BALATON Zoltan via
2020-10-15 23:47 ` [PATCH v8 2/5] mac_newworld: Allow loading binary ROM image BALATON Zoltan via
2020-10-15 23:47 ` [PATCH v8 3/5] mac_oldworld: Drop a variable, use get_system_memory() directly BALATON Zoltan via
2020-10-16 9:58 ` [PATCH v8 0/5] Mac Old World ROM experiment (ppc/mac_* clean ups and loading binary ROM) Mark Cave-Ayland
2020-10-16 12:19 ` BALATON Zoltan via
2020-10-17 12:54 ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2020-10-17 15:56 ` BALATON Zoltan via
2020-10-18 16:01 ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2020-10-16 13:05 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé [this message]
2020-10-17 16:39 ` BALATON Zoltan via
2020-10-17 17:44 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
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