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Re: [PATCH qemu v6 1/6] ppc: Start CPU in the default mode which is big-
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David Gibson |
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Re: [PATCH qemu v6 1/6] ppc: Start CPU in the default mode which is big-endian 32bit |
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Thu, 13 Feb 2020 14:34:51 +1100 |
On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 02:09:17PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>
>
> On 12/02/2020 16:43, David Gibson wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 02:29:38PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> >> At the moment we enforce 64bit mode on a CPU when reset. This does not
> >> make difference as SLOF or Linux set the desired mode straight away.
> >> However if we ever boot something other than these two,
> >> this might not work as, for example, GRUB expects the default MSR state
> >> and does not work properly.
> >>
> >> This removes setting MSR_SF from the PPC CPU reset.
> >
> > Hrm. This is in the core cpu model so it doesn't just affect pseries,
> > but powernv (and theoretically others) as well. Generally the cpu
> > model should have the bare metal behaviour, and we can override it in
> > the pseries machine if necessary.
> >
> > So for a bare metal POWER system, what mode do we start in? I'm
> > guessing it probably doesn't matter in practice, since the skiboot
> > firmware also probably does a mode set on entry, but it'd be nice to
> > get this right in theory.
>
>
> Huh. "Figure 65. MSR setting due to interrupt" of PowerISA 3.0 says
> "The SF bit is set to 1" so after all the existing behavior is correct
> and my patch is just wrong. Cool.
Well, I guess SF after interrupt isn't *necessarily* the same as SF at
reset, but it's a good place to start.
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