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Re: [PATCH v3 03/20] ppc4xx_sdram: Get rid of the init RAM hack


From: BALATON Zoltan
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 03/20] ppc4xx_sdram: Get rid of the init RAM hack
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2022 20:32:27 +0200 (CEST)

On Wed, 14 Sep 2022, BALATON Zoltan wrote:
On Wed, 14 Sep 2022, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
On 9/14/22 13:44, BALATON Zoltan wrote:
On Wed, 14 Sep 2022, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
On 9/13/22 21:52, BALATON Zoltan wrote:
The do_init parameter of ppc4xx_sdram_init() is used to map memory
regions that is normally done by the firmware by programming the SDRAM
controller. This is needed when booting a kernel directly from -kernel
without a firmware. Do this from board code accesing normal SDRAM

accessing

Fixed, also two ofhers in another patch you haven't noticed.

controller registers the same way as firmware would do, so we can get
rid of this hack.

Signed-off-by: BALATON Zoltan <balaton@eik.bme.hu>
---
v2: Fix ref405ep boot with -kernel and U-Boot

  hw/ppc/ppc405.h         |  1 -
  hw/ppc/ppc405_boards.c  | 12 ++++++++++--
  hw/ppc/ppc405_uc.c      |  4 +---
  hw/ppc/ppc440_bamboo.c  |  8 +++++++-
  hw/ppc/ppc440_uc.c      |  2 --
  hw/ppc/ppc4xx_devs.c    | 11 +----------
  include/hw/ppc/ppc4xx.h |  8 ++++++--
  7 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hw/ppc/ppc405.h b/hw/ppc/ppc405.h
index 1e558c7831..756865621b 100644
--- a/hw/ppc/ppc405.h
+++ b/hw/ppc/ppc405.h
@@ -169,7 +169,6 @@ struct Ppc405SoCState {
      /* Public */
      MemoryRegion ram_banks[2];
      hwaddr ram_bases[2], ram_sizes[2];
-    bool do_dram_init;
        MemoryRegion *dram_mr;
      hwaddr ram_size;
diff --git a/hw/ppc/ppc405_boards.c b/hw/ppc/ppc405_boards.c
index 083f12b23e..bf02a71c6d 100644
--- a/hw/ppc/ppc405_boards.c
+++ b/hw/ppc/ppc405_boards.c
@@ -274,6 +274,7 @@ static void ppc405_init(MachineState *machine)
      MachineClass *mc = MACHINE_GET_CLASS(machine);
      const char *kernel_filename = machine->kernel_filename;
      MemoryRegion *sysmem = get_system_memory();
+    CPUPPCState *env;
        if (machine->ram_size != mc->default_ram_size) {
          char *sz = size_to_str(mc->default_ram_size);
@@ -288,12 +289,19 @@ static void ppc405_init(MachineState *machine)
                               machine->ram_size, &error_fatal);
      object_property_set_link(OBJECT(&ppc405->soc), "dram",
                               OBJECT(machine->ram), &error_abort);
-    object_property_set_bool(OBJECT(&ppc405->soc), "dram-init",
-                             kernel_filename != NULL, &error_abort);
      object_property_set_uint(OBJECT(&ppc405->soc), "sys-clk", 33333333,
                               &error_abort);
      qdev_realize(DEVICE(&ppc405->soc), NULL, &error_fatal);
  +    /* Enable SDRAM memory regions */
+    /* FIXME This shouldn't be needed with firmware but we lack SPD data */

what do you mean ?

U-Boot detects the available RAM by reading the SPD info of the RAM modules but that probably also needs i2c emulation. See sam460ex.

+    env = &ppc405->soc.cpu.env;
+    if (ppc_dcr_write(env->dcr_env, SDRAM0_CFGADDR, 0x20) ||
+        ppc_dcr_write(env->dcr_env, SDRAM0_CFGDATA, 0x80000000)) {


I am not in favor of these ppc_drc_write calls and this is still a hack.

It's not. Normally this is done by firmware to enable memory controller but the board code has to do it if not using firmware (e.g. booting with -kernel) the same way it provides bootinfo or device tree mods the firmware would normally do or in this case maybe the emulation is incomplete so the part of firmware that configures the SDRAM controller does not run.

Exactly, and what the above proposal does is mimicking execution of CPU
instructions before the CPU is even fully initiated. Reset has not been
called at that stage.

I don't get this. We're not calling any CPU instructions, ppc_dcr_write just calls the write callback the device has registered for the dcr so it just does the same as the hack did at the end just doing it the same way the firmware should do.

The "dram-init" property is a cleaner solution. It takes care of doing the
pre-mapping of RAM banks in the realize routine of the sdram model (when
available).

I disagree, the hardware does not have such feature, it proviesd DCRs as the way to configure it. Adding a special property for it deviates from hardware and clutters qtree.


In this machine, running QEMU with -kernel deviates from HW. That's

In all machines booting with -kernel likely deviates and all machines probably have additinal code in this case to do some things normally done by the firmware. Look at pegasos2_machine_reset() for example. All that is not needed when we boot with firmware as then the firmware will do all that and provide the device tree, etc. bur we need to do these when booting without firmware. In thes case QEMU also emulates the firmware and has to do thinigs like enabling the memory controller.

the whole purpose of this option. It assumes that the SDRAM device
is pre-initialized (and much more should be done) by the QEMU machine
and the simplest way to acheive this goal is to inform the SDRAM model
to take care of the pre-initialization.

In my opinion the SDRAM controller model should model the hardware and if the board uses it differently then it should take care of that and not change the model.

Another way would be to change the default reset values of the SDRAM
registers (in the realize method using some property) and perform
some actions (mapping the banks) in the reset handler of the SDRAM
device model. That would be a deferred initialization but a property
is still needed to change the default behavior of the SDRAM model.

Anyhow, this should be isolated under the SDRAM device model and
not in the machine init by using the CPU state. That's clearly ugly.

Additionally, if you don't like the FIXME comment, it's there because this would really belong at the beginning of boot_from_kernel() function before that calls ppc405_set_bootinfo which is called when booting without firmware but I left it where it was in init for now because you menfioned that firmware boot was also broken when I had it at the end of boot_from_kernel so I suspect the board is not providing the SPD data so the firmware cannot detect the RAM and this why it's not enabling the SDRAM itself (or maybe that part is even compiled out because of that) but then it's a limitation of the board emulation and not the SDRAM controller so it should be handled in the board code.

Regards,
BALATON Zoltan

Why? You already have the ppc405_set_bootinfo and all it's stuff in the ppc405 board which is also only needed without firmware. If you're opposed to the few lines enabling the memory controller being in ppc405_init I could put it in a function either in ppc405_boards.c or if you think this should be in ppc4xx_sdrem.c then we can export that function via include/hw/ppc/ppc4xx.h and call that from boards but I don't want to add hacks and a property for this in the device model becuase I'm not convinced it belongs there. If the hardware would have such an option then modeling that in is valid but if it's done by the firmare on the real hardware then either use the firmware or do it in board code which is then emulating the firmware too.

Regards,
BALATON Zoltan


Thanks,

C.





Doing it like this patch is cleaner IMO.

Regards,
BALATON Zoltan


C.

+        error_report("Could not enable memory regions");
+        exit(1);
+    }
+
      /* allocate and load BIOS */
      if (machine->firmware) {
          MemoryRegion *bios = g_new(MemoryRegion, 1);
diff --git a/hw/ppc/ppc405_uc.c b/hw/ppc/ppc405_uc.c
index 2ca42fdef6..1e02347e57 100644
--- a/hw/ppc/ppc405_uc.c
+++ b/hw/ppc/ppc405_uc.c
@@ -1081,8 +1081,7 @@ static void ppc405_soc_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
                               s->ram_bases[0], s->ram_sizes[0]);
        ppc4xx_sdram_init(env, qdev_get_gpio_in(DEVICE(&s->uic), 17), 1,
-                      s->ram_banks, s->ram_bases, s->ram_sizes,
-                      s->do_dram_init);
+                      s->ram_banks, s->ram_bases, s->ram_sizes);
        /* External bus controller */
      if (!ppc4xx_dcr_realize(PPC4xx_DCR_DEVICE(&s->ebc), &s->cpu, errp)) { @@ -1160,7 +1159,6 @@ static void ppc405_soc_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
  static Property ppc405_soc_properties[] = {
      DEFINE_PROP_LINK("dram", Ppc405SoCState, dram_mr, TYPE_MEMORY_REGION,
                       MemoryRegion *),
-    DEFINE_PROP_BOOL("dram-init", Ppc405SoCState, do_dram_init, 0),
      DEFINE_PROP_UINT64("ram-size", Ppc405SoCState, ram_size, 0),
      DEFINE_PROP_END_OF_LIST(),
  };
diff --git a/hw/ppc/ppc440_bamboo.c b/hw/ppc/ppc440_bamboo.c
index 5ec82fa8c2..e3412c4fcd 100644
--- a/hw/ppc/ppc440_bamboo.c
+++ b/hw/ppc/ppc440_bamboo.c
@@ -211,7 +211,13 @@ static void bamboo_init(MachineState *machine)
      ppc4xx_sdram_init(env,
                        qdev_get_gpio_in(uicdev, 14),
                        PPC440EP_SDRAM_NR_BANKS, ram_memories,
-                      ram_bases, ram_sizes, 1);
+                      ram_bases, ram_sizes);
+    /* Enable SDRAM memory regions, this should be done by the firmware */
+    if (ppc_dcr_write(env->dcr_env, SDRAM0_CFGADDR, 0x20) ||
+        ppc_dcr_write(env->dcr_env, SDRAM0_CFGDATA, 0x80000000)) {
+        error_report("couldn't enable memory regions");
+        exit(1);
+    }
        /* PCI */
      dev = sysbus_create_varargs(TYPE_PPC4xx_PCI_HOST_BRIDGE,
diff --git a/hw/ppc/ppc440_uc.c b/hw/ppc/ppc440_uc.c
index db33334e29..6ab0ad7985 100644
--- a/hw/ppc/ppc440_uc.c
+++ b/hw/ppc/ppc440_uc.c
@@ -489,8 +489,6 @@ typedef struct ppc440_sdram_t {
  } ppc440_sdram_t;
    enum {
-    SDRAM0_CFGADDR = 0x10,
-    SDRAM0_CFGDATA,
      SDRAM_R0BAS = 0x40,
      SDRAM_R1BAS,
      SDRAM_R2BAS,
diff --git a/hw/ppc/ppc4xx_devs.c b/hw/ppc/ppc4xx_devs.c
index 1226ec4aa9..936d6f77fe 100644
--- a/hw/ppc/ppc4xx_devs.c
+++ b/hw/ppc/ppc4xx_devs.c
@@ -56,11 +56,6 @@ struct ppc4xx_sdram_t {
      qemu_irq irq;
  };
  -enum {
-    SDRAM0_CFGADDR = 0x010,
-    SDRAM0_CFGDATA = 0x011,
-};
-
  /*
   * XXX: TOFIX: some patches have made this code become inconsistent:
   *      there are type inconsistencies, mixing hwaddr, target_ulong
@@ -350,8 +345,7 @@ static void sdram_reset(void *opaque)
  void ppc4xx_sdram_init(CPUPPCState *env, qemu_irq irq, int nbanks,
                         MemoryRegion *ram_memories,
                         hwaddr *ram_bases,
-                       hwaddr *ram_sizes,
-                       int do_init)
+                       hwaddr *ram_sizes)
  {
      ppc4xx_sdram_t *sdram;
      int i;
@@ -369,9 +363,6 @@ void ppc4xx_sdram_init(CPUPPCState *env, qemu_irq irq, int nbanks,
                       sdram, &dcr_read_sdram, &dcr_write_sdram);
      ppc_dcr_register(env, SDRAM0_CFGDATA,
                       sdram, &dcr_read_sdram, &dcr_write_sdram);
-    if (do_init) {
-        sdram_map_bcr(sdram);
-    }
  }
    /*
diff --git a/include/hw/ppc/ppc4xx.h b/include/hw/ppc/ppc4xx.h
index 2af0d60577..a5e6c185af 100644
--- a/include/hw/ppc/ppc4xx.h
+++ b/include/hw/ppc/ppc4xx.h
@@ -37,6 +37,11 @@ typedef struct {
      uint32_t bcr;
  } Ppc4xxSdramBank;
  +enum {
+    SDRAM0_CFGADDR = 0x010,
+    SDRAM0_CFGDATA = 0x011,
+};
+
  void ppc4xx_sdram_banks(MemoryRegion *ram, int nr_banks,
                          MemoryRegion ram_memories[],
                          hwaddr ram_bases[], hwaddr ram_sizes[],
@@ -45,8 +50,7 @@ void ppc4xx_sdram_banks(MemoryRegion *ram, int nr_banks,
  void ppc4xx_sdram_init (CPUPPCState *env, qemu_irq irq, int nbanks,
                          MemoryRegion ram_memories[],
                          hwaddr *ram_bases,
-                        hwaddr *ram_sizes,
-                        int do_init);
+                        hwaddr *ram_sizes);
    #define TYPE_PPC4xx_PCI_HOST_BRIDGE "ppc4xx-pcihost"







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