From: "Blue Swirl" <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [12 patches] FDC: improve emulation
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:26:20 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f43fc5580804181226x632277b6v3c2a594192286400@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <480656E7.7000707@reactos.org>
On 4/16/08, Hervé Poussineau <hpoussin@reactos.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've done big improvements on floppy drive controller.
> For easier reviewing, I've tried to split them up in differents parts.
> Sorry if some parts are still big.
> Each patch applies on top of the previous one.
>
> If only some of them are accepted, I can provide a global patch for only
> these ones. Patches which needs more work will be resubmitted later.
>
> List of attached patches:
>
> fdc_01_lookuptable.diff
> - Adds a command lookup table, as suggested by Fabrice at
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2008-04/msg00143.html
> - This also moves initialization functions at the bottom of the file to
> prevent multiple forward declarations.
>
> fdc_02_seek_next_sector.diff
> - Extract seeking to next sector handling in a function. Add a sector seek
> in PIO read and write modes
>
> fdc_03_status_ab.diff
> - Fixes status A and status B registers. It removes one Sun4m mutation.
> Also removes the internal FD_CTRL_INTR flag.
>
> fdc_04_status_012.diff
> - Fixes status0, status1 and status2 handling, which were broken in
> read/write commands and in some subtle ways. Status are now calculated
> during command execution and not at the very end.
> - This allows removing of one hack in
> fdctrl_handle_sense_interrupt_status().
>
> fdc_05_dmaen.diff
> - Handles correctly FD_MSR_NONDMA/FD_DOR_NONDMA flags, and uses them when
> possible. Fixes a problem with SPECIFY command. This allows removing of last
> Sun4m mutation.
>
> fdc_06_dor_reg.diff
> - Better handling of DOR register. DOR register drives external motors, but
> it not limited to existing drives.
> - Use FD_DOR_nRESET flag instead of internal FD_CTRL_RESET flag.
> - Support writing to DOR register even in reset mode (as said in
> specification)
>
> fdc_07_msr_reg.diff
> - Stores controller state in MSR register instead of internal state field.
> This simplifies the fdctrl_read_main_status() function, which may be called
> in some tight loops.
>
> fdc_08_cleanup.diff
> - Removes useless fields in fdrive_t structure.
> - Adds a message when bdrv_read/bdrv_write calls fail.
>
> fdc_09_tdr_reg.diff
> - Replaces bootsel field by the whole tdr register. It may be easier if we
> want to later add support for tapes.
>
> fdc_10_4_fds.diff
> - Supports up to 4 floppy drives if MAX_FD is set to 4.
>
> fdc_11_cur_drv.diff
> - Replaces access to cur_drv field by macros.
>
> fdc_12_pio_write.diff
> - Fixes transfer data length.
> - Fixes buffer overflow in PIO mode write.
>
> Floppy controller works better than before in Sun4m. It now gets READ
> commands and correctly detects if floppy is write-protected or not.
> Unfortunately, no valid filesystem seems to be found on the floppy.
Maybe the TC signal should be used (fdctrl_handle_tc)? I didn't know
what to do with it, but Linux uses it when transferring data.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-18 19:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-16 19:43 [Qemu-devel] [12 patches] FDC: improve emulation Hervé Poussineau
2008-04-18 19:26 ` Blue Swirl [this message]
2008-04-22 15:17 ` Blue Swirl
2008-04-23 10:10 ` [Qemu-devel] FDC: improve emulation [v2] Hervé Poussineau
2008-04-23 16:52 ` Blue Swirl
2008-04-23 20:22 ` Hervé Poussineau
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