Re: [kvm-devel] PIO port width on various archs?

[Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>]

Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 10:58 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>   
> > I'm changing the kvm userspace interface to be more friendly to other 
> > archs.  One issue is the PIO port size.  x86 uses 16 bits to hold the 
> > port size (64K ports).  Is that an issue for other archs?
> >
> > I guess I could change it to __u32, but it's better to know what various 
> > architectures actually require.
> >     
>
> PowerPC doesn't have any such concept; access to ISA PIO is done by
> having the bridge translate a particular range of MMIO accesses as PIO.
> I'm no expert, but I don't know of any mainstream processor other than
> x86 that supports PIO.
>
>   

I think ia64 does, but it's probably exactly the same as x86.


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