Re: [PATCH v6 1/4] bswap: Add the ability to store to an unaligned 24 bit field

[Richard Henderson]

On 5/20/23 06:15, BALATON Zoltan wrote:
> On Sat, 20 May 2023, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > On Fri, 19 May 2023 at 15:19, Jonathan Cameron via
> > <qemu-devel@nongnu.org> wrote:
> > > From: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
> > >
> > > CXL has 24 bit unaligned fields which need to be stored to.  CXL is
> > > specified as little endian.
> > >
> > > Define st24_le_p() and the supporting functions to store such a field
> > > from a 32 bit host native value.
> > >
> > > The use of b, w, l, q as the size specifier is limiting.  So "24" was
> > > used for the size part of the function name.
>
> Maybe it's clearer to use 24 but if we want to keep these somewhat consistent how about 
> using t for Triplet, Three-bytes or Twenty-four?

I think it's clearer to use '3'.
When I added 128-bit support I used cpu_ld16_mmu.

I think it would be clearer to not use letters anywhere, and to use units of bytes instead 
of units of bits (no one can store just a bit), but changing everything is a big job.


r~