From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eddie Huang Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] arm64: dts: Add mediatek MT8173 SoC and evaluation board dts and Makefile Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 16:02:03 +0800 Message-ID: <1419321723.14341.38.camel@mtksdaap41> References: <1418825853-10934-1-git-send-email-eddie.huang@mediatek.com> <20141217143305.GC8942@leverpostej> <54919AC9.2090306@arm.com> <3669965.zfJEHTFEBI@wuerfel> <5497DF4C.4000104@arm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5497DF4C.4000104@arm.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=m.gmane.org@lists.infradead.org To: Marc Zyngier Cc: Mark Rutland , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , Arnd Bergmann , Pawel Moll , Ian Campbell , Catalin Marinas , Mark Brown , Will Deacon , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , yh.chen@mediatek.com, Robert Richter , "srv_heupstream@mediatek.com" , Rob Herring , Matthias Brugger , Sascha Hauer , Kumar Gala , Olof Johansson , "Joe.C" , Thomas Gleixner , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , Jason Cooper List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Mon, 2014-12-22 at 09:07 +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote: > On 20/12/14 20:07, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Wednesday 17 December 2014 15:01:29 Marc Zyngier wrote: > >> > >> Indeed, as described in the documentation: > >> http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.ddi0471b/CHDIFAEE.html > >> > >> Also it is worth noticing that given how GICV is placed, it will never > >> work with 64K pages and virtualization. Pretty sad. > > > > Does this mean no VGIC support on this platform so you have to emulate it > > in order to run virtual machines with 64K pages, or does it mean that > > it's impossible to use that way because you can't emulate it? > > As Peter said, this is not a configuration we're willing to support: > - we don't have a API to tell userspace emulation about interrupts > generated by the generic timers > - we could move the whole GIC emulation into the kernel (at the moment, > only the distributor is there), but that would be a complete nightmare > > It really looks like a case of "let's drop a bunch of 64bit cores into > an existing SoC". Shame people can't read integration guidelines... > > M. MT8173 use GIC-400. We check GIC-400 TRM that VGIC address is not 64KB alignment. but GIC-500 (GICv3) VGIC base address is. We also check 3.19-rc1 arm64 device tree, amd-seattle-soc.dtsi VGIC is 64KB alignment, but arm juno.dts is not, they are both GIC-400. So we are a little confused, and still try to figure out what is the correct address. Neverthless, MT8173 SoC already use 0x10224000 and 0x10225000 as VGIC base address.