From: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
To: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
Cc: "Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
"open list:RISC-V" <qemu-riscv@nongnu.org>,
"Sagar Karandikar" <sagark@eecs.berkeley.edu>,
"Bastian Koppelmann" <kbastian@mail.uni-paderborn.de>,
"qemu-devel@nongnu.org Developers" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
"Chih-Min Chao" <chihmin.chao@sifive.com>,
"Alistair Francis" <Alistair.Francis@wdc.com>,
"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-riscv] [PATCH] riscv: sifive_e: Correct various SoC IP block sizes
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 14:35:40 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEUhbmUgE7v0-E4q128Tw-94938w4ibsxcPHQgHAk=5qhTViPA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mhng-fd27972e-5f98-4fdb-b4dc-bd020f4fe8e2@palmer-si-x1e>
Hi,
On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 2:34 AM Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 03 Sep 2019 20:41:52 PDT (-0700), bmeng.cn@gmail.com wrote:
> > Palmer,
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 5:34 PM Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Palmer,
> >>
> >> On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 10:53 AM Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 5:06 AM Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com> wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > On 8/5/19 8:43 AM, Bin Meng wrote:
> >> > > > On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 2:14 PM Chih-Min Chao <chihmin.chao@sifive.com> wrote:
> >> > > >> On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 8:27 AM Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > > >>>
> >> > > >>> Some of the SoC IP block sizes are wrong. Correct them according
> >> > > >>> to the FE310 manual.
> >> > > >>>
> >> > > >>> Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
> >> > > >>> ---
> >> > > >>>
> >> > > >>> hw/riscv/sifive_e.c | 6 +++---
> >> > > >>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >> > > >>>
> >> > > >>> diff --git a/hw/riscv/sifive_e.c b/hw/riscv/sifive_e.c
> >> > > >>> index 2a499d8..9655847 100644
> >> > > >>> --- a/hw/riscv/sifive_e.c
> >> > > >>> +++ b/hw/riscv/sifive_e.c
> >> > > >>> @@ -53,13 +53,13 @@ static const struct MemmapEntry {
> >> > > >>> hwaddr base;
> >> > > >>> hwaddr size;
> >> > > >>> } sifive_e_memmap[] = {
> >> > > >>> - [SIFIVE_E_DEBUG] = { 0x0, 0x100 },
> >> > > >>> + [SIFIVE_E_DEBUG] = { 0x0, 0x1000 },
> >> > > >>> [SIFIVE_E_MROM] = { 0x1000, 0x2000 },
> >> > > >>> [SIFIVE_E_OTP] = { 0x20000, 0x2000 },
> >> > > >>> [SIFIVE_E_CLINT] = { 0x2000000, 0x10000 },
> >> > > >>> [SIFIVE_E_PLIC] = { 0xc000000, 0x4000000 },
> >> > > >>> - [SIFIVE_E_AON] = { 0x10000000, 0x8000 },
> >> > > >>> - [SIFIVE_E_PRCI] = { 0x10008000, 0x8000 },
> >> > > >>> + [SIFIVE_E_AON] = { 0x10000000, 0x1000 },
> >> > > >>> + [SIFIVE_E_PRCI] = { 0x10008000, 0x1000 },
> >> > > >>> [SIFIVE_E_OTP_CTRL] = { 0x10010000, 0x1000 },
> >> > > >>> [SIFIVE_E_GPIO0] = { 0x10012000, 0x1000 },
> >> > > >>> [SIFIVE_E_UART0] = { 0x10013000, 0x1000 },
> >> > > >>> --
> >> > > >>> 2.7.4
> >> > > >>>
> >> > > >>
> >> > > >> It seems the modification follows E310-G002(Hifive1 Rev B) spec and the origin is for E310-G000(Hifive1) spec.
> >> > > >> There should be some way to specify different board version with different memory map or we have policy, always support the latest spec.
> >> > >
> >> > > I agree with Chao, it would be cleaner to have two different boards
> >> > > (machines).
> >> > > Since the SoCs are very similar, you could add a 'revision' property and
> >> > > use it to select the correct map.
> >> > >
> >> >
> >> > I am not sure if adding two different machines will bring us a lot of
> >> > benefits, since the only difference is the SoC revision with different
> >> > block sizes.
> >> >
> >> > > >>
> >> > > >
> >> > > > Yes, I checked both specs. The older spec says these bigger sizes,
> >> > > > however their register sizes fit well in the smaller range as well. So
> >> > > > I think the modification works well for both.
> >> > >
> >> > > This is OK for the PRCI, since sifive_prci_create() does not use
> >> > > memmap[SIFIVE_E_PRCI].size.
> >> > >
> >> > > However the AON case is borderline, since you shrink it from 32KiB to 4KiB.
> >> > >
> >> >
> >> > AON is not implemented anyway currently. And I checked the FE310 old
> >> > spec, its register block size is still within the 4KiB range, so
> >> > shrinking the size should be fine for both old and new SoC.
> >> >
> >> > > BTW (not related to this patch) it is odd a function named
> >> > > sifive_mmio_emulate() creates a RAM region with memory_region_init_ram()
> >> > > and does not use the UnimplementedDevice (see make_unimp_dev() in
> >> > > hw/arm/musca.c).
> >> > >
> >>
> >> What's your suggestion regarding this patch?
> >
> > Ping?
>
> Sorry, I missed this the first time around. In retrospect, it looks like we
> ended up with the wrong naming scheme for boards: sifive_e is very ambiguous,
> as there are many boards that look like this. We'd originally chosen a more
> explicit scheme (something like "sifive-fe310-g000"), but that was NAK'd as
> resulting in too many machine types.
>
> Peter: would you be OK deprecating "sifive_e" and adding "sifive-fe310-g000"
> and "sifive-fe310-g002" targets? We'll end up with a lot of machines this way,
> but I don't see another way to closely match what's out there. In embedded
> land there isn't really any runtime portability, so if the memory maps don't
> match exactly then it's not a useful target for users.
Just want to restart the discussion for this patch. Now that we have
"revB" support for sifive_e machine, I guess we can do something?
But renaming the sifive_e machine to something like sifive-fe31-g000
is another topic .. Thoughts?
Regards,
Bin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-23 6:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-03 0:27 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] riscv: sifive_e: Correct various SoC IP block sizes Bin Meng
2019-08-05 6:14 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-riscv] " Chih-Min Chao
2019-08-05 6:43 ` Bin Meng
2019-08-06 21:06 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-08-07 1:36 ` Bin Meng
2019-08-07 2:53 ` Bin Meng
2019-08-14 9:34 ` Bin Meng
2019-09-04 3:41 ` Bin Meng
2019-09-04 18:34 ` Palmer Dabbelt
2020-06-23 6:35 ` Bin Meng [this message]
2020-06-23 16:07 ` Alistair Francis
2019-08-05 17:51 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alistair Francis
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