From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Hardware interrupts
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 19:44:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200607171944.03284.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b921df970607171128l5f62523ep37195dc00b5b676c@mail.gmail.com>
> "In order to be faster, QEMU does not check at every basic block if an
> hardware interrupt is pending. Instead, the user must asynchrously call a
> specific function to tell that an interrupt is pending. This function
> resets the chaining of the currently executing basic block. It ensures that
> the execution will return soon in the main loop of the CPU emulator. Then
> the main loop can test if the interrupt is pending and handle it."
> What means "the user must asynchrously call a specific function..."?
>
> In which sense "user must"?
Whoever wants to raise the interrupt.
> Which "Specific function"?
Usually pic_set_irq_new.
I recommend you look at how the existing hardware devices are implemented.
That should answer most of your questions. I'd start with something simple
like serial.c or pl050.c
Paul
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2006-07-17 18:28 [Qemu-devel] Hardware interrupts Alessandro Corradi
2006-07-17 18:44 ` Paul Brook [this message]
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