On 16/10/2015 11:32, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 16 October 2015 at 09:52, Laurent Vivier <lviv...@redhat.com> wrote: >> I'm going to remove the zero address checking and try to start a qemu >> for each of them to see which ones are broken. > > You need to also make sure there's a PCI card in there > and that the guest maps it with a BAR at address zero > (testing both MMIO BARs and IO BARs), and then exercise > the guest sufficiently to check that behaviour of whatever > it might be overlapping is still OK.
I think it will be hard to trigger this case. :( For instance, on pseries, the card is put at address 0 only when it is hotplugged, and on reboot it is moved to another address. > You might find it easier to do by code inspection in > some cases (boards which implement PCI as a simple > "memory window into the PCI space" rather than with > x86-style "anything in the background not covered by > another device is PCI space" should be ok). OK, I will... Laurent