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From: <jasper.lowell@bt.com>
To: <balaton@eik.bme.hu>
Cc: tony.nguyen@bt.com, mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk,
	dgilbert@redhat.com, atar4qemu@gmail.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: Emulating Solaris 10 on SPARC64 sun4u
Date: Fri, 8 May 2020 02:55:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <78d72c7f09a45357b151231cba9454d6d288680d.camel@bt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.22.395.2005072048510.5891@zero.eik.bme.hu>

> I don't know anything about this chip so don't know if it helps but
> if 
> it's any way similar to ESCC (and the ESCC2 name is not just
> marketing) 
> then there's some emulation of that in hw/char/escc.c that you may
> want to 
> look at.

From what I can tell, the SAB 82532 is a bit more complex than the ESCC
ones. It's not difficult to implement but a complete solution will be
lengthy because of the large combination of configuration options the
chip supports.

> Maybe you can get away with setting these to the values the driver
> would 
> set and hard coding it for now just to get some output. Then you can 
> ignore the corresponding registers which could simplify initial
> device 
> model.

I'll take this approach.

Thanks,
Jasper Lowell.

On Thu, 2020-05-07 at 20:54 +0200, BALATON Zoltan wrote:
> On Thu, 7 May 2020, jasper.lowell@bt.com wrote:
> > I've started work on emulating the SAB 82532 ESSC2 but it's
> > unfortunately way more complex than than the 16550A. For instance,
> > it's
> 
> I don't know anything about this chip so don't know if it helps but
> if 
> it's any way similar to ESCC (and the ESCC2 name is not just
> marketing) 
> then there's some emulation of that in hw/char/escc.c that you may
> want to 
> look at.
> 
> > possible to configure different baudrates for receiving and
> > transmitting. QEMU's chardev interface doesn't appear to handle
> > that.
> > QEMUSerialSetParams has a single speed value that is passed to
> > cfsetispeed and cfsetospeed. The chip also has support for stick
> > parity
> > , which aren't valid options right now either. If I'm wrong on
> > either
> > of those points please correct me. Unless there is an alternative,
> > changes to the interface may need to be made if adding this device
> > is
> > to be considered.
> 
> Maybe you can get away with setting these to the values the driver
> would 
> set and hard coding it for now just to get some output. Then you can 
> ignore the corresponding registers which could simplify initial
> device 
> model.
> 
> Regards,
> BALATON Zoltan

      reply	other threads:[~2020-05-08  2:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-05  6:31 Emulating Solaris 10 on SPARC64 sun4u jasper.lowell
2020-02-05 17:33 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-02-07  5:43   ` jasper.lowell
2020-02-08  0:03     ` BALATON Zoltan
2020-02-10 15:38       ` BALATON Zoltan
2020-02-10 19:04         ` John Snow
2020-02-10 22:32           ` Missing IRQ with bmdma on ppc/mips/sparc? (was: Re: Emulating Solaris 10 on SPARC64 sun4u) BALATON Zoltan
2020-02-25 20:55           ` IDE IRQ problem after UDMA enabled " BALATON Zoltan
2020-02-25 22:00             ` BALATON Zoltan
2020-02-25 22:12         ` Emulating Solaris 10 on SPARC64 sun4u BALATON Zoltan
2020-02-09 11:26 ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2020-02-19  3:42   ` jasper.lowell
2020-02-19 18:54     ` BALATON Zoltan
2020-02-19 20:10       ` BALATON Zoltan
2020-02-21 19:53         ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-02-28 22:05         ` BALATON Zoltan
2020-03-01  0:15           ` BALATON Zoltan
2020-05-07 14:29   ` jasper.lowell
2020-05-07 15:02     ` Artyom Tarasenko
2020-05-08  2:33       ` jasper.lowell
2020-05-08  8:51         ` Peter Tribble
2020-05-08 13:45           ` Artyom Tarasenko
2020-05-10  2:46             ` jasper.lowell
2020-05-10  9:22               ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2020-05-17  7:57                 ` jasper.lowell
2020-05-17 12:37                   ` Artyom Tarasenko
2020-05-18  2:56                     ` jasper.lowell
2020-05-20 17:44                       ` Mike Russo
2020-05-07 18:54     ` BALATON Zoltan
2020-05-08  2:55       ` jasper.lowell [this message]

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