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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, lersek@redhat.com, imammedo@redhat.com,
	somlo@cmu.edu, ehabkost@redhat.com, mst@redhat.com,
	rjones@redhat.com, peter.maydell@linaro.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2 1/4] fw_cfg: don't map the fw_cfg IO ports in fw_cfg_io_realize()
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 14:34:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41757d38-5fdb-befa-e385-69cc7b02ee6f@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1497302470-10776-2-git-send-email-mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>



On 12/06/2017 23:21, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> As indicated by Laszlo it is a QOM bug for the realize() method to actually
> map the device. Set up the IO regions with sysbus_init_mmio() and defer
> the mapping to the caller, as already done in fw_cfg_init_mem_wide().

... sort of.

The idea is that the ISA bridge (including all the legacy I/O devices,
of which fw_cfg part) does subtractive decoding, i.e. "if nobody else
wants it, I'll take it".  So that's why fw_cfg's realize() maps I/O
ports, and why the API is sysbus_add_io.

Sysbus MMIO maps a different hardware concept, where the "base" is
decoded by the SoC and forwarded to the component at that address.  This
is represented by the sysbus_init_mmio/sysbus_mmio_map pair.

Documentation for this would be welcome, but sysbus.h doesn't have many
function comments. :(

Paolo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-06-14 12:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-12 21:21 [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2 0/4] fw_cfg: qdev-related tidy-ups Mark Cave-Ayland
2017-06-12 21:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2 1/4] fw_cfg: don't map the fw_cfg IO ports in fw_cfg_io_realize() Mark Cave-Ayland
2017-06-12 22:27   ` Laszlo Ersek
2017-06-12 23:12     ` Laszlo Ersek
2017-06-13 18:27     ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2017-06-14 12:34   ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2017-06-12 21:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2 2/4] fw_cfg: move setting of FW_CFG_VERSION_DMA bit to fw_cfg_init1() Mark Cave-Ayland
2017-06-12 22:31   ` Laszlo Ersek
2017-06-12 21:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2 3/4] fw_cfg: move qdev_init_nofail() from fw_cfg_init1() to callers Mark Cave-Ayland
2017-06-12 22:50   ` Laszlo Ersek
2017-06-16  9:52     ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2017-06-12 21:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2 4/4] fw_cfg: move QOM type defines into fw_cfg.h Mark Cave-Ayland
2017-06-12 22:52   ` Laszlo Ersek
2017-06-14 12:38 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2 0/4] fw_cfg: qdev-related tidy-ups Paolo Bonzini
2017-06-16 10:02   ` Mark Cave-Ayland

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