Re: [Qemu-devel] IRQ number used by virtio-net-device in vexpress-a15

[Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>]

On 14 April 2016 at 13:58, Inti Gonzalez-Herrera <inti.glez@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have some problems using virtio-net-device. In particular, th system is
> not receiving an interrupt when it transmits a package. However, I can see
> how the buffer descriptors are moved to the used ring. I was thinking that
> maybe the problem is related to the fact that I don't know what is the exact
> IRQ number.
>
> In other words, let's say that I have a function enable_irq(int, handler)
> that enables a given interrupt in the GIC. What is the number n that I
> should used as parameter in this platform?
>
> Right now, I'm using the value (40 + k), where k is the index of the
> specific transporter where the network device is attached (from 0 to 3). It
> is not working.
> I get that information from file hw/arm/vexpress.c, functions
> vexpress_common_init  and vexpress_modify_dtb (this one is not executed)

Problems with interrupt numbers are almost always related to confusion
about whether the interrupt number starts with the 0 as the first
external interrupt, or 0 as the first internal interrupt (where 0..31
are SGIs and PPIs, and the first external (SPI) interrupt is 32).
The '40 + k' in the vexpress.c source code is an external interrupt
number (in which numbering scheme the PL011 UARTs are interrupts 5 to 8,
and the sp804 timer is interrupt 48, if that helps you cross-check
against some other devices in your OS which do have working interrupts).

thanks
-- PMM