O.K.

On Wednesday, October 21, 2015, Pavel Fedin <p.fe...@samsung.com> wrote:

>  Hello!
>
> >> The system register implementation belongs in the gic code, not
> >> target-arm/. We already have support for devices that say
> >> "I have some system registers, please add them to this CPU".
>
> > I don't understand.
> > The system registers are defined in ARM Architecture reference Manual.
> > It is true that the real implementation is in arm_gicv3_interrupts.c
> > But the crn, crm, op0, and op1 of the instructions are in CPU domain.
>
>  Not really. If you take a closer look, you'll see that crn, crm, op1, op2
> are the same for both ARM64 and ARM32. The only difference is that ARM64
> uses op0 = 3, and ARM32 uses cp = 15. Both of these specifiers can coexist
> in the descriptor table.
>  I think Peter wants to tell that you should not insert your register
> table and registration function into target-arm/cpu64.c. This code should
> go to hw/intc/arm_gicv3_cpu_interface.c, add .cp = 15, and - voila - it
> magically works with both ARM32 and ARM64.
>
> Kind regards,
> Pavel Fedin
> Expert Engineer
> Samsung Electronics Research center Russia
>
>
>

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