Hi all,
Recap:
- QEMU enables 7450 SW TLB search by default;
- OpenBIOS does not know about SW TLB (vectors 0x1000, 0x1100, 0x1200);
- OpenBIOS does not know about 7450s PVRs.
Proposed solutions:
a) find another firmware/guest OS code that supports the feature;
b) implement the switching of the feature in QEMU and have the guest
code enable it only when supported. That would take some fiddling with
the MMU code to: merge POWERPC_MMU_SOFT_74xx into POWERPC_MMU_32B,
check the HID0[STEN] bit, figure out how to switch from HW TLB miss to
SW TLB miss on demand, block access to the TLBMISS register (and
others) when the feature is off, and so on;
c) leave the feature enabled in QEMU and implement the software TLB
miss handlers in openbios. The UM provides sample code, so this is
easy;
d) remove support for software TLB search for the 7450 family and
switch the cpus to the POWERPC_MMU_32B model. This is by far the
easiest solution, but could cause problems for any (which?) guest OS
code that actually uses the feature. All of the existing code for the
POWERPC_MMU_SOFT_74xx MMU model would probably be removed since it
would be dead code then;