[OpenBIOS] [PATCH] Add USB OHCI + HID driver
BALATON Zoltan
balaton at eik.bme.hu
Tue Jun 3 11:40:02 CEST 2014
On Tue, 3 Jun 2014, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> Enabling bus mastering on a PCI device allows the device to generate
> reads and writes on the PCI bus.
>
> It fails in exciting and mysterious ways if you haven't yet set up
> bus mastering on your PCI-PCI bridges and your PHB yet. And related
> config, e.g. the windows on those bridges.
I don't know if PCI bridges are supported by OpenBIOS yet (probably not as
an XXX comment says in qemu/hw/pci-host/uninorth.c) but if not then it
would not work on real hardware anyway, would it?
> Things get a lot more interesting if you have an IOMMU, too. DMA is
> evil. Scared yet? You should be.
I could enclose the enabling bus mastering part in a check for CONFIG_QEMU
if that would make it safer. What do you think?
Regards,
BALATON Zoltan
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