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Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] Implement "non 100% native mode" in via-ide


From: BALATON Zoltan
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] Implement "non 100% native mode" in via-ide
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 19:36:40 +0100 (CET)
User-agent: Alpine 2.22 (BSF 395 2020-01-19)

On Tue, 10 Mar 2020, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
On 09/03/2020 19:18, BALATON Zoltan wrote:
This small series implements "non-100% native mode" of via-ide found
at least on pegasos2 where io addresses come from PCI BARs but
interrupts are hard coded to legacy IRQ14 and 15. This is needed for
guests that expect it and activate work arounds on that platform and
don't work unless this is emulated. (Symptom is missing IDE IRQs after
enabling BMDMA and boot freezes waiting for interrupt.)

We need a flag to turn this mode on or off so the first patch
repurposes the last remaining CMD646 specific field in PCIIDEState to
allow more flags and make room for the new legacy-irq flag there. (The
CMD646 may need similar mode or something else may need more flags in
the future.) Boards using CMD646 and VIA IDE are updated for the above
changes. Second patch fixes up PCI reset to not clear value set by
device emulation on bus reset when wmask does not allow that.

Tested with Linux and MorphOS on pegasos2 and a Gentoo live CD kernel
for mips_fulong2e that's the only one I could find but being beta not
sure if that fully works on real hardware. (The mips_fulong2e also
seems to have problems with pci devices so to boot Linux you need
-net none -vga none and use serial console otherwise the kernel panics.)

Regards,
BALATON Zoltan

BALATON Zoltan (3):
  ide: Make room for flags in PCIIDEState and add one for legacy IRQ
    routing
  pci: Honour wmask when resetting PCI_INTERRUPT_LINE
  via-ide: Also emulate non 100% native mode

 hw/alpha/dp264.c        |  2 +-
 hw/ide/cmd646.c         | 12 ++++++------
 hw/ide/via.c            | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 hw/mips/mips_fulong2e.c |  2 +-
 hw/pci/pci.c            |  4 +++-
 hw/sparc64/sun4u.c      |  9 ++-------
 include/hw/ide.h        |  7 ++++---
 include/hw/ide/pci.h    |  7 ++++++-
 8 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

To summarise what has been quite a long thread, I don't believe the approach of
introducing a feature flag for legacy IRQ routing is the correct solution here. 
It
seems to me that qdev can do all the work: provide qdev gpio connectors for 2 
IRQ
sets: a named "legacy-irq" array and a standard ("irq") qdev connector and then 
let
the boards wire up the ones as they need.

With this in place it is simple to always fallback to the legacy IRQs if no PCI 
IRQ
is connected regardless of mode, and this also allows the deprecated 
isa_get_irq()
function to be removed.

You have to provide an example patch to show how this would work because I can't implement this. I don't see how it could work so to me this just a vague idea not something I can make a patch from.

Regards,
BALATON Zoltan



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