Hi,
This RFC series attempt to fix a regression introduced in a4cb773928e,
and reported by Emilio:
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-06/msg00317.html
Mark noticed the VGA and parallel I/O were overlapping:
(qemu) info mtree
address-space: memory
0000000000000000-ffffffffffffffff (prio 0, i/o): system
00000801fc000000-00000801fdffffff (prio 0, i/o): pci0-io
...
00000801fc0003b4-00000801fc0003b5 (prio 0, i/o): vga
00000801fc0003ba-00000801fc0003ba (prio 0, i/o): vga
00000801fc0003bc-00000801fc0003c3 (prio 0, i/o): parallel
^^^ ^^^^^^^^
00000801fc0003c0-00000801fc0003cf (prio 0, i/o): vga
^^^
00000801fc0003d4-00000801fc0003d5 (prio 0, i/o): vga
00000801fc0003da-00000801fc0003da (prio 0, i/o): vga
...
In reset the parallel port is enabled. Since the emulated PALcode
directly accesses the VGA port without checking if the SIO parallel
port is enabled, I suppose the real PALcode does this check.
To avoid changing the emulated PALcode, a "parallel" property is used
to reset the SIO with the parallel device disabled.
I tried to implement the quickest simpler fix...
references used:
- http://www.osdever.net/FreeVGA/vga/portidx.htm
- https://retired.beyondlogic.org/spp/parallel.htm
- http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/37c669.pdf
- linux/arch/alpha/kernel/smc37c669.c
- https://github.com/rth7680/qemu-palcode/blob/master/init.c#L290
- https://github.com/rth7680/qemu-palcode/blob/master/ioport.h#L48
Regards,
Phil.
Philippe Mathieu-Daudé (2):
hw/isa/smc37c669-superio: Basic 'Config Registers' implementation
hw/alpha/dp264: Disable the Super I/O parallel port
hw/alpha/dp264.c | 6 +++-
hw/isa/smc37c669-superio.c | 73 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
2 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
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2.17.1
