Re: [Qemu-arm] [PATCH] Added periodic IRQ support for bcm2836_control local timer

[bzt]

Hi,

That's great, thank you! Looking forward to see the patch in the master branch!

Cheers,
bzt

On 3/12/19, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Mar 2019 at 11:02, bzt <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Okay, as you wish. My code works either way and on real hardware as
>> well, because I acknowledge the periodic IRQ as soon as possible, so
>> good for me.
>
> Thanks; I'll get this version of the patch into git master
> at some point in the next week.
>
> (I happened to have an rpi2 to hand, so I wrote a little test
> program to check what the behaviour of the h/w is, and it does
> indeed not clear the INTEN bit when it signals an IRQ,
> and it doesn't clear the IRQ line until the guest clears the
> interrupt flag: so if your IRQ handler doesn't clear the flag
> by writing to the register then the IRQ will 'scream' (fire
> continually) both on QEMU and on the real hardware. So I think
> the data sheet is correct here, though it certainly has its share
> of errors...)
>
> thanks
> -- PMM
>