On Wednesday 05 November 2008 22:49:42 Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> virtio: Define and use per-architecture "pfn shift" constants
> 
> Both sides of the virtio interface must agree about how big a pfn really is.
> This is particularly an issue on architectures where the page size is
> configurable (e.g. PowerPC, IA64) -- the interface must be independent of
> PAGE_SHIFT.

I forgot to mention that with this patch and the corresponding qemu patch, I 
can successfully use virtio with qemu TARGET_PAGE_BITS=12 and Linux 
PAGE_SHIFT=16. (OK, actually I have other problems once I get to userspace, 
but I don't believe it's a virtio issue.)

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Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center
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