Re: [PULL 14/14] hw/arm/aspeed: Add Fuji machine type

[Richard Henderson]

On 9/14/21 5:26 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> (2) RAM blocks should have a length that fits inside a
>      signed 32-bit type on 32-bit hosts (at least I assume this
>      is where the 2047MB limit is coming from; in theory this ought
>      to be improveable but auditing the code for mishandling of
>      RAMblock sizes to ensure we weren't accidentally stuffing
>      their size into a signed 'long' somewhere would be kind
>      of painful)

Recalling that the win64 abi model is p64, i.e. 'long' is still 32-bit while pointers are 
64-bit, how close do we think we are to this being fixed already?

> Even if we did fix (2) we'd need to compromise on (3)
> sometimes still -- if a board has 4GB of RAM that's
> not going to fit in 32 bits regardless. But we would be
> able to let boards with 2GB have 2GB.

I'm not opposed to deprecating 32-bit hosts...  ;-)


r~