Re: [Qemu-arm] [PATCH 0/2] GICv2 & GICv3: RAZ/WI reserved addresses rather than aborting

[Peter Maydell]

On 13 December 2017 at 16:52, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> The GICv2 and GICv3 specifications say that reserved register
> addresses should RAZ/WI.  This means we need to return MEMTX_OK, not
> MEMTX_ERROR, because now that we support generating external aborts
> the latter will cause an abort on new board models.
>
> In particular, at least some versions of UEFI try to
> access a reserved address in the GICv3 redistributor
> (at SGI_base + 0x184) and fail to boot on the virt board
> without this.
>
> thanks
> -- PMM
>
> Peter Maydell (2):
>   hw/intc/arm_gicv3: Make reserved register addresses RAZ/WI
>   hw/intc/arm_gic: reserved register addresses are RAZ/WI

Oops, forgot the cc-stable tags:

Cc: address@hidden

thanks
-- PMM