Re: [Qemu-devel] PPC: Which instruction to fetch at Power-On?

[Fabien Chouteau]

On 03/28/2013 05:04 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> 
> On 28.03.2013, at 16:10, Fabien Chouteau wrote:
> 
>> On 03/28/2013 12:46 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>>
>>> On 28.03.2013, at 12:42, Fabien Chouteau wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> While working on a patch to remove env->hreset_excp_prefix, I'm looking
>>>> at which instruction should be the fetched first at power-on. I'm lost
>>>> in all the PPC version and configuration, can anyone (Alex :) can help
>>>> me with this mess?
>>>
>>> Phew - I'd say just keep the targets you don't know exactly as they are :). 
>>> That way you at least don't break anything that wasn't broken before.
>>>
>>> For the targets where you do know better (like 7x0), change its behavior to 
>>> be correct according to the respective spec.
>>>
>>
>> Here's what I found in the UM of almost all the cores supported by QEMU:
>>
>> Every CPU should start at the hreset address (i.e. excp_prefix + 0x100).
>>
>> However, some cores don't have a hreset exception (4xx and Book E (e200,
>> e500)), those cores start at 0xFFFF_FFFC.
> 
> At least the G5 and I think also more recent POWER CPUs have either a small 
> command stream or a full blown service processor that initialize initial CPU 
> state like the PC. So there, the CPU starts at a board defined address.
>

You're right, if the start address doesn't follow core's specification,
it's up to the board.


> I don't think we need to worry too much about that for now though.
>

The problem is that my patch may break support of some platforms, we
will have to fix the boards later on.

-- 
Fabien Chouteau