Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 02:24 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>   
>> For x86 there are two kinds of mmio devices: one is the expected 
>> system-wide mmio, and the other is mmio that depends not only on the 
>> address, but also on which cpu originated the request.  This type is 
>> only needed for the local apic.
>>
>> Is the second type also useful for ppc?
>>     
>
> Actually yes. At least OpenPIC (one of a variety of interrupt
> controllers used on PowerPC systems) has per-CPU registers:
>         A copy of each of these registers will be available to each CPU
>         at the same physical address.
>
>   

Okay, so we'll have to generalize that code and move it back.

-- 
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