[SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 5/5] docs: update documentation considering PCIE-PCI bridge

Laszlo Ersek lersek at redhat.com
Tue Aug 8 17:11:46 CEST 2017


one comment below

On 08/05/17 22:27, Aleksandr Bezzubikov wrote:

> +Capability layout (defined in include/hw/pci/pci_bridge.h):
> +
> +    uint8_t id;     Standard PCI capability header field
> +    uint8_t next;   Standard PCI capability header field
> +    uint8_t len;    Standard PCI vendor-specific capability header field
> +
> +    uint8_t type;   Red Hat vendor-specific capability type
> +                    List of currently existing types:
> +                        QEMU_RESERVE = 1
> +
> +
> +    uint32_t bus_res;   Minimum number of buses to reserve
> +
> +    uint64_t io;        IO space to reserve
> +    uint64_t mem        Non-prefetchable memory to reserve
> +    uint64_t mem_pref;  Prefetchable memory to reserve

(I apologize if I missed any concrete points from the past messages
regarding this structure.)

How is the firmware supposed to know whether the prefetchable MMIO
reservation should be made in 32-bit or 64-bit address space? If we
reserve prefetchable MMIO outside of the 32-bit address space, then
hot-plugging a device without 64-bit MMIO support could fail.

My earlier request, to distinguish "prefetchable_32" from
"prefetchable_64" (mutually exclusively), was so that firmware would
know whether to restrict the MMIO reservation to 32-bit address space.

This is based on an earlier email from Alex to me:

On 10/03/16 18:01, Alex Williamson wrote:
> I don't think there's such a thing as a 64-bit non-prefetchable
> aperture.  In fact, there are not separate 32 and 64 bit prefetchable
> apertures.  The apertures are:
>
> I/O base/limit - (default 16bit, may be 32bit)
> Memory base/limit - (32bit only, non-prefetchable)
> Prefetchable Memory base/limit - (default 32bit, may be 64bit)
>
> This is according to Table 3-2 in the PCI-to-PCI bridge spec rev 1.2.

I don't care much about the 16-bit vs. 32-bit IO difference (that's
entirely academic and the Platform Spec init doesn't even provide a way
for OVMF to express such a difference). However, the optional
restriction to 32-bit matters for the prefetchable MMIO aperture.

Other than this, the patch looks good to me, and I'm ready to R-b.

Thanks!
Laszlo



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