[OpenBIOS] sun4u interrupt-map

Blue Swirl blauwirbel at gmail.com
Wed Apr 4 22:39:12 CEST 2012


On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 20:15, Artyom Tarasenko <atar4qemu at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Blue Swirl <blauwirbel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 17:59, Tarl Neustaedter <tarl-b2 at tarl.net> wrote:
>>> On 2012-Apr-4 13:30 , Artyom Tarasenko wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Could it be that OpenBIOS is missing interrupt-map and
>>>> interrupt-map-mask properties for the PCI bus?
>>>>
>>>> On a real Ultra-5 it looks like this:
>>>> interrupt-map            0000003c 00000000 00000000 f005fa24 80000033
>>>> interrupt-map-mask       0000003e 00000000 00000000
>>>>
>>>> What is mapped to what?
>>>>
>>>> I couldn't find any documentation how these properties work, except
>>>> for Linux and OpenSolaris sources. Thought I ask here before trying to
>>>> reconstruct the picture from them.
>>>
>>>
>>> These are documented at least as far back as the Safari binding, in section
>>> 5.2.1.4 (assuming that spec got published). They are used to route
>>> interrupts differently than the data interconnects for devices -
>>> specifically, when hardware has taken the interrupt pins from a device and
>>> brought them in to the CPU through a path which bypasses all the intervening
>>> bridges. The specification for interrupt-map is:
>>>
>>> child.hi child.mid child.lo child.intrspec intr-parent.phandle
>>> intr-parent.intrspec
>>>
>>> Basically, it defines the child, the child's interrupt then points to the
>>> parent where the interrupt appears and what interrupt it appears as. In the
>>> above Ultra-5 spec, it looks like the first three cells are defining the
>>> child (3c?), and the interrupt from that child (presumably zero), saying
>>> that this interrupt appears under node f005fa24 as interrupt 33.
>
> So, basically, without these properties, software would have no way to
> tell what CPU interrupt is pulled when the device irq becomes active,
> right?
>
>>> The interrupt-map-mask is simply a mask applied to the child information
>>> it's defined as
>>>
>>> child.hi child.mid child.lo child.intrspec
>>>
>>> Evidently on the Ultra-5, we aren't using three cells to identify the child,
>>> only two. So we probably skip child.mid in both of the above specifications.
>>
>> Nice explanation. I read the Open Firmware draft interrupt mapping
>> document (http://www.openfirmware.org/1275/practice/imap/imap0_9d.pdf),
>> but I was more confused after reading it than before.
>
> Hm. Since it's a part of a standard specification, the other machines
> (i.e. PPC) might need these properties as well?

Probably. There used to be PPC OF device tree dumps in this site but
it's no longer there:
http://penguinppc.org/historical/dev-trees-html/

>
> Artyom
>
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> Artyom Tarasenko
>
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