On Thu, Jun 6, 2024 at 2:06 PM Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org>
wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Jun 2024 at 12:04, Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar.igles...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 6, 2024 at 12:00 PM Andrew.Yuan <andrew.y...@jaguarmicro.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>         In the Cadence IP for Gigabit Ethernet MAC Part Number: IP7014
> IP Rev: R1p12 - Doc Rev: 1.3 User Guide, the specification for the
> type2_compare_x_word_0 register is as follows:
> >>         The byte stored in bits [23:16] is compared against the byte in
> the received frame from the selected offset+0, and the byte stored in bits
> [31:24] is compared against the byte in
> >>         the received frame from the selected offset+1.
> >>
> >>         However, there is an implementation error in the cadence_gem
> model in qemu:
> >>         the byte stored in bits [31:24] is compared against the byte in
> the received frame from the selected offset+0
> >>
> >>         Now, the error code is as follows:
> >>         rx_cmp = rxbuf_ptr[offset] << 8 | rxbuf_ptr[offset];
> >>
> >>         and needs to be corrected to:
> >>         rx_cmp = rxbuf_ptr[offset + 1] << 8 | rxbuf_ptr[offset];
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Andrew.Yuan <andrew.y...@jaguarmicro.com>
> >
> >
> >
> > LGTM:
> > Reviewed-by: Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar.igles...@amd.com>
> >
> > At some point it would be nice to add the missing logic for the
> DISABLE_MASK bit that
> > extends the compare range from 16 to 32-bits.
>
> I had a look at this device's code, and I'm trying to
> figure out how we know at this point that there really are
> two bytes pointed to by rxbuf_ptr.
>  * The get_queue_from_screen() function takes a rxbufsize
>    argument, but it never uses it...
>  * the callsite in gem_receive() will (in the "strip FCS" case)
>    pass its buf argument as rxbuf_ptr, but it will use a
>    rxbufsize argument which has been raised to at least
>    GEM_DMACFG_RBUFSZ_MUL, even if the input size argument
>    is smaller, so even if get_queue_from_screen() honoured
>    its rxbufsize argument it wouldn't help
>
> Would somebody who understands the device like to have a look ?
>
>
Yes, I agree that it looks strange. The padding to minimum 60B seems wrong
since we're blindly extending buf from something less than 60B to 60B
and then potentially copying from it...

Cheers,
Edgar


> This is a separate issue from the incorrect array offset
> argument this patch fixes, though.
>
> thanks
> -- PMM
>

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