[OpenBIOS] OFMEM and physical addresses
Mark Cave-Ayland
mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk
Sat Nov 6 12:24:24 CET 2010
Hi all,
I've spent a few hours looking at converting SPARC32 over to OFMEM and
have hit a fairly fundamental hurdle at the start - the OFMEM code
doesn't handle physical addresses properly.
In terms of mapping I/O devices into address space, the first problem is
with the ofmem_arch_early_map_pages() API which looks like this:
ofmem_arch_early_map_pages(ucell phys, ucell virt, ucell size, ucell mode);
The problem here is that when setting up the QEMU firmware configuration
interface with an address of 0xd00000510, once we hit the page mapping
functions we lose the top 8 bits of the physical address since
sizeof(phys_addr_t) > size(ucell) on SPARC32. This causes incorrect
physical address mappings.
My current thinking is that all physical addresses should be changed to
phys_addr_t in the OFMEM APIs, but this is slightly more complicated
because the same range_t structure is used for storing both physical and
virtual range mappings.
I believe that if I change the OFMEM range_t structure to use
phys_addr_t instead of ucell then this should work assuming that
sizeof(phys_addr_t) is always >= sizeof(ucell). Looking at the OF spec
it seems that all virtual addresses always fit within 1 Forth cell, and
so virtual addresses should be fine in their present form.
Can anyone see a flaw in the above logic before I go ahead and code it up?
ATB,
Mark.
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