Re: [PATCH kvmtool 00/16] arm: Allow the user to define the memory layout

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On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 02:35:06PM +0100, Alexandru Elisei wrote:
> The guest memory layout created by kvmtool is fixed: regular MMIO is below
> 1G, PCI MMIO is below 2G, and the RAM always starts at the 2G mark. Real
> hardware can have a different memory layout, and being able to create a
> specific memory layout can be very useful for testing the guest kernel.
> 
> This series allows the user the specify the memory layout for the
> virtual machine by expanding the -m/--mem option to take an <addr>
> parameter, and by adding architecture specific options to define the I/O
> ports, regular MMIO and PCI MMIO memory regions.
> 
> The user defined memory regions are implemented in patch #16; I consider
> the patch to be an RFC because I'm not really sure that my approach is the
> correct one; for example, I decided to make the options arch dependent
> because that seemed like the path of least resistance, but they could have
> just as easily implemented as arch independent and each architecture
> advertised having support for them via a define (like with RAM base
> address).

Do you plan to repost this with Andre's comments addressed?

Will



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