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authorPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2018-09-25 14:02:32 +0100
committerPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2018-09-25 15:13:24 +0100
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hw/intc/arm_gic: Document QEMU interface
The GICv2's QEMU interface (sysbus MMIO regions, IRQs, etc) is now quite complicated with the addition of the virtualization extensions. Add a comment in the header file which documents it. Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Luc Michel <luc.michel@greensocs.com> Message-id: 20180823103818.31189-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org
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diff --git a/include/hw/intc/arm_gic.h b/include/hw/intc/arm_gic.h
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--- a/include/hw/intc/arm_gic.h
+++ b/include/hw/intc/arm_gic.h
@@ -18,6 +18,49 @@
* with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
+/*
+ * QEMU interface:
+ * + QOM property "num-cpu": number of CPUs to support
+ * + QOM property "num-irq": number of IRQs (including both SPIs and PPIs)
+ * + QOM property "revision": GIC version (1 or 2), or 0 for the 11MPCore GIC
+ * + QOM property "has-security-extensions": set true if the GIC should
+ * implement the security extensions
+ * + QOM property "has-virtualization-extensions": set true if the GIC should
+ * implement the virtualization extensions
+ * + unnamed GPIO inputs: (where P is number of SPIs, i.e. num-irq - 32)
+ * [0..P-1] SPIs
+ * [P..P+31] PPIs for CPU 0
+ * [P+32..P+63] PPIs for CPU 1
+ * ...
+ * + sysbus IRQs: (in order; number will vary depending on number of cores)
+ * - IRQ for CPU 0
+ * - IRQ for CPU 1
+ * ...
+ * - FIQ for CPU 0
+ * - FIQ for CPU 1
+ * ...
+ * - VIRQ for CPU 0 (exists even if virt extensions not present)
+ * - VIRQ for CPU 1 (exists even if virt extensions not present)
+ * ...
+ * - VFIQ for CPU 0 (exists even if virt extensions not present)
+ * - VFIQ for CPU 1 (exists even if virt extensions not present)
+ * ...
+ * - maintenance IRQ for CPU i/f 0 (only if virt extensions present)
+ * - maintenance IRQ for CPU i/f 1 (only if virt extensions present)
+ * + sysbus MMIO regions: (in order; numbers will vary depending on
+ * whether virtualization extensions are present and on number of cores)
+ * - distributor registers (GICD*)
+ * - CPU interface for the accessing core (GICC*)
+ * - virtual interface control registers (GICH*) (only if virt extns present)
+ * - virtual CPU interface for the accessing core (GICV*) (only if virt)
+ * - CPU 0 CPU interface registers
+ * - CPU 1 CPU interface registers
+ * ...
+ * - CPU 0 virtual interface control registers (only if virt extns present)
+ * - CPU 1 virtual interface control registers (only if virt extns present)
+ * ...
+ */
+
#ifndef HW_ARM_GIC_H
#define HW_ARM_GIC_H