On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Julian Pidancet
> <julian.pidan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This patch makes iPXE work with the rtl8139 emulation. The rtl8139
>> driver in iPXE issues a 16bit access on the ChipCmd register
>> (offset 0x37) to check the status of the rx buffer. The offset of the
>> ioport access was getting fixed up to 0x36 in qemu, causing the value
>> read in iPXE to be invalid.
>>
>> This fixes an issue with iPXE reporting timeouts during TFTP transfers.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Julian Pidancet <julian.pidan...@gmail.com>
>> ---
>> hw/rtl8139.c | 10 +++++-----
>> 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> I checked the datasheet and the register byte at 0x38, after ChipCmd,
> is undocumented. iPXE is being weird, I don't see the reason for the
> inw().
>
I agree, changing this inw() to an inb() in iPXE also fixes the issue.
But this patch makes more sense because it reflects how real hardware
would behave.
>> @@ -2800,7 +2800,7 @@ static void rtl8139_io_writew(void *opaque, uint8_t
>> addr, uint32_t val)
>> {
>> RTL8139State *s = opaque;
>>
>> - addr &= 0xfe;
>> + addr &= 0xff;
>
> You can simply drop the masking since
> rtl8139_ioport_readw()/rtl8139_mmio_readw() already do addr & 0xFF.
> Same applies for the other hunks in this patch.
>
Right, I will send an v2 shortly.
--
Julian
