Re: [qemu-s390x] [RFC PATCH 1/3] hw/Kconfig: PCI bus implies PCI_DEVICES

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 7/15/19 12:56 PM, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jul 2019 12:48:55 +0200
> Thomas Huth <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> On 15/07/2019 12.19, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>> On Mon, 15 Jul 2019 at 11:15, Thomas Huth <address@hidden> wrote:  
>>>>
>>>> On 15/07/2019 11.55, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:  
>>>>> If a controller device provides a PCI bus, we can plug any PCI
>>>>> daughter card on it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden>
>>>>> ---  
>>>   
>>>>> diff --git a/hw/pci/Kconfig b/hw/pci/Kconfig
>>>>> index 77f8b005ff..0f7267db35 100644
>>>>> --- a/hw/pci/Kconfig
>>>>> +++ b/hw/pci/Kconfig
>>>>> @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
>>>>>  config PCI
>>>>>      bool
>>>>> +    imply PCI_DEVICES  
>>>>
>>>> No, please don't change this. This was done on purpose, since almost all
>>>> PCI_DEVICES do not work on s390x (so s390x does *not* imply PCI_DEVICES).  
>>>
>>> But that means that every board that provides PCI has to have an
>>> "imply PCI_DEVICES" line, which is pretty clunky just to work
>>> around an s390x limitation.
>>>
>>> Is there some way in the Kconfig syntax for s390x to say
>>> "no PCI_DEVICES" so we can have the corner-case be handled
>>> by the s390x Kconfig in one place rather than in 20 places
>>> affecting everywhere except s390x?  
>>
>> IIRC the problem on s390x are the legacy IRQs. s390x has only MSIs. So I
>> guess the correct way to fix this would be to introduce some
>> PCI_LEGACY_IRQ switch and let all old devices that do not work with MSI
>> depend on it.
> 
> s/MSI/MSI-X/, IIRC. Not sure how far 'legacy' would stretch.

Maybe we can have something like PCI_LEGACY_DEVICES and PCI_MSI_DEVICES?

So if s390x only selects PCI_LEGACY (not PCI_MSI) bus, then it only get
legacy devices?

Other MSI compliant should select PCI_MSI instead. PCI alone seems to
give troubles.

> cc:ing Collin in case there's something else.
>