From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41998) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YmjQR-0005mk-0o for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 09:50:19 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YmjQK-00069n-0d for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 09:50:18 -0400 Received: from mail-lb0-f169.google.com ([209.85.217.169]:33069) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YmjQJ-00068j-PU for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 09:50:11 -0400 Received: by lbbzk7 with SMTP id zk7so82605330lbb.0 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 06:50:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 06:50:08 -0700 From: Christoffer Dall Message-ID: <20150427135008.GB29088@lvm> References: <1428528060-17896-1-git-send-email-christoffer.dall@linaro.org> <1428528060-17896-3-git-send-email-christoffer.dall@linaro.org> <20150427134117.GA29088@lvm> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] arm_gicv2m: Add GICv2m widget to support MSIs List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Maydell Cc: QEMU Developers , Eric Auger On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 02:43:17PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 27 April 2015 at 14:41, Christoffer Dall wrote: > > Regarding adding support for the security extensions later, I assume the > > QEMU-specifics will be to add a flag to the device instantiation from > > the containing board activating security support, which would grow the > > IO region size of this device from 4K to 8K for an adjacent secure > > register frame and adjust the offsets. I cannot think of a reason why > > that wouldn't work backwards-compatibly? > > I think you'd probably want to add a second MMIO region rather > than making the first one double-size. I don't think there's anything > in the spec that mandates them being adjacent. You also need to allocate > more interrupt lines. Right; the spec actually says they are NOT required to be adjacent. > > I think this should all be backwards-compatible, yes. > ok - thanks, -Christoffer