[OpenBIOS] [PATCH 0/2] Sparc64: virtio-block and interrupt support

Jakub Jermar jakub at jermar.eu
Sun May 13 07:56:52 CEST 2012


On 05/13/2012 12:00 AM, Artyom Tarasenko wrote:
> On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Artyom Tarasenko <atar4qemu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Blue Swirl <blauwirbel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Artyom Tarasenko <atar4qemu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Blue Swirl <blauwirbel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Based on Artyom's Sparc64 work (thanks a lot!), I added some minimal
>>>>> support for virtio-block and interrupt nodes.
>>>>>
>>>>> With these patches and QEMU HEAD, Linux can boot like Artyom describes in
>>>>> http://tyom.blogspot.de/2012_05_01_archive.html
>>>>> but without any manual OpenBIOS setup.
>>>>
>>>> My test kernel - 3.3.2 - still needs the ebus interrupt mapping properties:
>>>>
>>>> cd /pci at 1fe,0/ebus
>>>> 000001fe encode-int 020003f8 encode-int encode+ 1 encode-int encode+
>>>> ffe29140 encode-int encode+ 2b encode-int encode+ " interrupt-map" property
>>>> 000001ff encode-int ffffffff encode-int encode+ 00000003 encode-int encode+
>>>> " interrupt-map-mask" property
>>>> device-end
>>>> boot
>>>
>>> Updated patch attached. This change seems to help the serial driver.
>>
>> Looks good. The result seems to be identical with my hack, but there
>> is one point I'd like to discuss:
>>
>> cd /pci at 1fe,0/pci-ata  ok
>> .properties
>> name                      "pci-ata"
>> [...]
>> interrupts                0
>>
>> I'm not sure that this is a valid value for the interrupts property.
> 
> Tarl, Jakub, can you comment whether 0 is allowed?

According to the UltraSPARC IIi User's Manual, section 19.3.3, INO 0
(again, relative to the parent node mapping), would be INTA# on bus 0
and INO 1 would be INTB#.

Jakub



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