Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] hw/arm/virt-acpi-build: Add GICv2m description in ACPI MADT table

[Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>]

On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 15:55:22 +0100
Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:

> On 1 June 2015 at 11:15,  <shannon.zhao@linaro.org> wrote:
> > From: Shannon Zhao <shannon.zhao@linaro.org>
> >
> > Add GICv2m description in ACPI MADT table, so guest can use MSI when
> > booting with ACPI.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Shannon Zhao <zhaoshenglong@huawei.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Shannon Zhao <shannon.zhao@linaro.org>
> > ---
> >     This is based on Christoffer's GICv2m patchset.
> >         Test virtio-net-pci, e1000.
> > ---
> >  hw/arm/virt-acpi-build.c    | 11 +++++++++++
> >  include/hw/acpi/acpi-defs.h | 12 ++++++++++++
> >  2 files changed, 23 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/hw/arm/virt-acpi-build.c b/hw/arm/virt-acpi-build.c
> > index a9373cc..d8dcf45 100644
> > --- a/hw/arm/virt-acpi-build.c
> > +++ b/hw/arm/virt-acpi-build.c
> > @@ -385,8 +385,10 @@ build_madt(GArray *table_data, GArray *linker, VirtGuestInfo *guest_info,
> >  {
> >      int madt_start = table_data->len;
> >      const MemMapEntry *memmap = guest_info->memmap;
> > +    const int *irqmap = guest_info->irqmap;
> >      AcpiMultipleApicTable *madt;
> >      AcpiMadtGenericDistributor *gicd;
> > +    AcpiMadtGenericMsiFrame *gic_msi;
> >      int i;
> >
> >      madt = acpi_data_push(table_data, sizeof *madt);
> > @@ -410,6 +412,15 @@ build_madt(GArray *table_data, GArray *linker, VirtGuestInfo *guest_info,
> >      gicd->length = sizeof(*gicd);
> >      gicd->base_address = memmap[VIRT_GIC_DIST].base;
> >
> > +    gic_msi = acpi_data_push(table_data, sizeof *gic_msi);
> > +    gic_msi->type = ACPI_APIC_GENERIC_MSI_FRAME;
> > +    gic_msi->length = sizeof(*gic_msi);
> > +    gic_msi->gic_msi_frame_id = 0;
> > +    gic_msi->base_address = memmap[VIRT_GIC_V2M].base;
> > +    gic_msi->flags = cpu_to_le32(1);
> > +    gic_msi->spi_count = NUM_GICV2M_SPIS;
> > +    gic_msi->spi_base = irqmap[VIRT_GIC_V2M] + ARM_SPI_BASE;
> 
> Why do we need to convert the flags to little-endian,
> but not the length, base address or other fields?
+1 all ACPI numbers should be converted to little-endian.

> 
> thanks
> -- PMM
>