qemu-devel.nongnu.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
To: Andrey Smirnov <andrew.smirnov@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-arm <qemu-arm@nongnu.org>, Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>,
	QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Andrey Yurovsky <yurovsky@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 02/17] imx_fec: Do not calculate FEC
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 18:03:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFEAcA8eLWXNDiLEYQez-rknah86sdduGxUZy__UtDWS+VyGSQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHQ1cqEQpgr1Qgwr9rUnpiUXs_=jKSnzpJFQ=Q6GK+5vpT-x6A@mail.gmail.com>

On 9 October 2017 at 15:47, Andrey Smirnov <andrew.smirnov@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 6:48 AM, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>> This looks a bit odd. Doesn't the hardware calculate the CRC here?
>>
>
> It does, it just seemed to me that since the hardware also has a "CRC
> error" bit in its status register, there would be few if any users of
> the actual calculated CRC value. Given how eTSEC emulation layer gets
> away without calculating CRC I thought that it might be possible to
> have this optimization here as well.

As a general rule QEMU should just emulate what the hardware does
(even if the usual guest software doesn't happen to care about
that corner of the specification).

thanks
-- PMM

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-09 17:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-18 19:50 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/17] Initial i.MX7 support Andrey Smirnov
2017-09-18 19:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/17] imx_fec: Do not link to netdev Andrey Smirnov
2017-10-06 13:46   ` Peter Maydell
2017-09-18 19:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 02/17] imx_fec: Do not calculate FEC Andrey Smirnov
2017-10-06 13:48   ` Peter Maydell
2017-10-09 14:47     ` Andrey Smirnov
2017-10-09 17:03       ` Peter Maydell [this message]
2017-09-18 19:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 03/17] imx_fec: Refactor imx_eth_enable_rx() Andrey Smirnov
2017-10-06 13:49   ` Peter Maydell
2017-09-18 19:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 04/17] imx_fec: Change queue flushing heuristics Andrey Smirnov
2017-09-22  7:27   ` Jason Wang
2017-09-25 18:10     ` Andrey Smirnov
2017-10-06 13:56   ` Peter Maydell
2017-10-09 14:57     ` Andrey Smirnov
2017-09-18 19:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/17] imx_fec: Use ENET_FTRL to determine truncation length Andrey Smirnov
2017-09-30  0:17   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2017-10-06 14:00     ` Peter Maydell
2017-10-09 15:19       ` Andrey Smirnov
2017-10-06 14:03   ` Peter Maydell
2017-09-18 19:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/17] imx_fec: Use MIN instead of explicit ternary operator Andrey Smirnov
2017-09-30  0:19   ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-arm] " Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2017-09-18 19:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/17] imx_fec: Emulate SHIFT16 in ENETx_RACC Andrey Smirnov
2017-10-06 14:02   ` Peter Maydell
2017-10-09 15:22     ` Andrey Smirnov
2017-09-18 19:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 08/17] imx_fec: Add support for multiple Tx DMA rings Andrey Smirnov
2017-09-22  7:33   ` Jason Wang
2017-09-25 18:23     ` Andrey Smirnov
2017-10-06 14:10   ` Peter Maydell
2017-10-09 15:38     ` Andrey Smirnov
2017-10-09 17:06       ` Peter Maydell
2017-09-18 19:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 09/17] imx_fec: Use correct length for packet size Andrey Smirnov
2017-10-06 14:12   ` Peter Maydell
2017-09-18 19:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/17] sdhci: Add i.MX specific subtype of SDHCI Andrey Smirnov
2017-09-18 19:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 11/17] sdhci: Implement write method of ACMD12ERRSTS register Andrey Smirnov
2017-09-18 19:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 12/17] i.MX: Add i.MX7 CCM, PMU and ANALOG device Andrey Smirnov
2017-09-18 19:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 13/17] i.MX: Add code to emulate i.MX2 watchdog IP block Andrey Smirnov
2017-10-06 14:22   ` Peter Maydell
2017-10-09 15:54     ` Andrey Smirnov
2017-09-18 19:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 14/17] i.MX7: Add code to emulate SNVS IP-block Andrey Smirnov
2017-09-18 19:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 15/17] include/qemu: Add sizes.h from Linux Andrey Smirnov
2017-10-06 14:13   ` Peter Maydell
2017-10-09 15:55     ` Andrey Smirnov
2017-09-18 19:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 16/17] i.MX: Add i.MX7 SOC implementation Andrey Smirnov
2017-10-06 14:38   ` Peter Maydell
2017-10-09 16:18     ` Andrey Smirnov
2017-10-09 17:09       ` Peter Maydell
2017-09-18 19:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 17/17] Implement support for i.MX7 Sabre board Andrey Smirnov
2017-10-06 14:42   ` Peter Maydell
2017-10-09 16:30     ` Andrey Smirnov
2017-09-18 21:00 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/17] Initial i.MX7 support no-reply
2017-10-06 14:46 ` Peter Maydell

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=CAFEAcA8eLWXNDiLEYQez-rknah86sdduGxUZy__UtDWS+VyGSQ@mail.gmail.com \
    --to=peter.maydell@linaro.org \
    --cc=andrew.smirnov@gmail.com \
    --cc=jasowang@redhat.com \
    --cc=qemu-arm@nongnu.org \
    --cc=qemu-devel@nongnu.org \
    --cc=yurovsky@gmail.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).