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On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Peter Crosthwaite
<peter.crosthwa...@xilinx.com> wrote:
> Hi All. This is a new scheme i've come up with handling device registers in a
> data driven way. My motivation for this is to factor out a lot of the access
> checking that seems to be replicated in every device. See P2 commit message 
> for
> further discussion.
>
> P1 is a trivial addition to bitops.h
> P2 is the main patch, adds the register definition functionality
> P3 adds helpers that glue the register API to the Memory API
> P4 is an example new device (the Xilinx Zynq devcfg) that uses this scheme.
> P5 adds devcfg to the Zynq machine model
>
> This devcfg device was particularly finnicky with per-bit restrictions which
> prompted all this. I'm also looking for a higher-than-usual modelling fidelity
> on the register space, with semantics defined for random reserved bits
> in-between otherwise consistent fields.
>
> Here's an example of the qemu_log output for the devcfg device. This is 
> produced
> by now generic sharable code:
>
> /machine/unattached/device[44]:Addr 0x000008:CFG: write of value 00000508
> /machine/unattached/device[44]:Addr 0x000080:MCTRL: write of value 00800010
> /machine/unattached/device[44]:Addr 0x000010:INT_MASK: write of value ffffffff
> /machine/unattached/device[44]:Addr 00000000:CTRL: write of value 0c00607f
>
> And an example of a rogue guest banging on a bad bit:
>
> /machine/unattached/device[44]:Addr 0x000014:STATUS bits 0x000001 may not be \
>                                                                 written to 1
>
> Changed from v3:
> Rebased (its been a while)
> Added reserved bits.
> Cleaner separation of decode and access components (Patch 3)
> Changed from v2:
> Fixed for hw/ re-orginisation (Paolo review)
> Simplified and optimized (PMM and Gerd review)
> Changed from v1:
> Added ONES macro patch
> Dropped bogus former patch 1 (PMM review)
> Addressed Blue, Gerd and MST comments.
> Simplified to be more Memory API compatible.
> Added Memory API helpers.
> Please see discussion already on list and commit msgs for more detail.
>
>
> Peter Crosthwaite (6):
>   bitops: Add ONES macro
>   register: Add Register API
>   register: Add Memory API glue
>   register: Add support for decoding information
>   xilinx_devcfg: Zynq devcfg device model
>   xilinx_zynq: added devcfg to machine model
>
>  default-configs/arm-softmmu.mak |   1 +
>  hw/arm/xilinx_zynq.c            |   8 +
>  hw/core/Makefile.objs           |   1 +
>  hw/core/register.c              | 245 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  hw/dma/Makefile.objs            |   1 +
>  hw/dma/xilinx_devcfg.c          | 462 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/hw/register.h           | 164 ++++++++++++++
>  include/qemu/bitops.h           |   2 +
>  8 files changed, 884 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 hw/core/register.c
>  create mode 100644 hw/dma/xilinx_devcfg.c
>  create mode 100644 include/hw/register.h
>
> --
> 1.9.1.1.gbb9f595
>

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