Re: [Bug 1815721] Re: RISC-V PLIC enable interrupt for multicore

[Bin Meng]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 4:20 PM RTOS Pharos <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> After some debugging (and luck), the problem (at least in the Virt
> board) was that the PLIC code inside QEMU addresses the core x 2 instead
> of just the core (core=hart). That is why it worked for core 0 (0x2 = 0)
> but for core 1 it has to address the PLIC memory area for core 2.
>
> For example, the interrupt enable address for core 1 starts at offset
> 0x002080 (see https://github.com/riscv/riscv-plic-spec/blob/master
> /riscv-plic.adoc) but we actually have to change the enable bit for core
> 2 (at 0x002100) to make to work for core 1.


https://github.com/riscv/riscv-plic-spec/blob/master/riscv-plic.adoc says:

"base + 0x002080: Enable bits for sources 0-31 on context 1"

This is context 1, not core 1.

It looks to me you were running an image built for SiFive FU540.
Please test your image against "sifive_u" machine instead.

>
> The same is true for the priority threshold and claim complete registers
> (we need to multiply the core by 2)
>
> Either the documentation at https://github.com/riscv/riscv-plic-
> spec/blob/master/riscv-plic.adoc does not have the correct memory
> addresses for qemu virt board, or qemu appears to be wrong.
>
> --

Regards,
Bin