Re: [PATCH 0/7] via-ide: fixes and improvements

[John Snow]

On 3/14/20 5:15 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> On 13/03/2020 17:57, John Snow wrote:
> 
>> On 3/13/20 4:24 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
>>> Following on from the earlier thread "Implement "non 100% native mode"
>>> in via-ide", here is an updated patchset based upon the test cases
>>> sent to me off-list.
>>>
>>> The VIA IDE controller is similar to early versions of the PIIX
>>> controller in that the primary and secondary IDE channels are hardwired
>>> to IRQs 14 and 15 respectively. Guest OSs typically handle this by
>>> either switching the controller to legacy mode, or using native mode and
>>> using a combination of PCI device/vendor ID and/or checking various
>>> registers in PCI configuration space to detect this condition and apply
>>> a special fixed IRQ 14/15 routing.
>>>
>>> This patchset effectively updates the VIA IDE PCI device to follow the
>>> behaviour in the datasheet in two ways: fixing some PCI configuration
>>> space register defaults and behaviours, and always using legacy IRQ 14/15
>>> routing, and once applied allows all our known test images to boot
>>> correctly.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Mark Cave-Ayland <address@hidden>
>>>
>>>
>>> BALATON Zoltan (2):
>>>   ide/via: Get rid of via_ide_init()
>>>   pci: Honour wmask when resetting PCI_INTERRUPT_LINE
>>>
>>> Mark Cave-Ayland (5):
>>>   via-ide: move registration of VMStateDescription to DeviceClass
>>>   via-ide: ensure that PCI_INTERRUPT_LINE is hard-wired to its default
>>>     value
>>>   via-ide: initialise IDE controller in legacy mode
>>>   via-ide: allow guests to write to PCI_CLASS_PROG
>>>   via-ide: always use legacy IRQ 14/15 routing
>>>
>>>  hw/ide/via.c            | 21 +++++----------------
>>>  hw/mips/mips_fulong2e.c |  5 ++++-
>>>  hw/pci/pci.c            |  5 ++++-
>>>  include/hw/ide.h        |  1 -
>>>  4 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
>>>
>>
>> Does this supersede everything else so far? (Except the two cmd646
>> related series, four patches total, which are already staged)
> 
> Yes, that's correct. It passes all our tests, and even better allows the 
> fulong2e CD
> image at the link Zoltan posted to boot.
> 
> So I believe it's good unless Alexander has any objections?
> 
> 
> ATB,
> 
> Mark.
> 

Tentatively staged! Please let me know during the RC testing phase if
you discover problems.

Thanks, applied to my IDE tree:

https://github.com/jnsnow/qemu/commits/ide
https://github.com/jnsnow/qemu.git

--js