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authorPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2018-09-25 14:02:32 +0100
committerPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2018-09-25 15:13:24 +0100
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hw/intc/arm_gic: Document QEMU interface
The GICv2's QEMU interface (sysbus MMIO regions, IRQs,
etc) is now quite complicated with the addition of the
virtualization extensions. Add a comment in the header
file which documents it.

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Luc Michel <luc.michel@greensocs.com>
Message-id: 20180823103818.31189-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org
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diff --git a/include/hw/intc/arm_gic.h b/include/hw/intc/arm_gic.h
index 42bb535fd4..ed703a1720 100644
--- a/include/hw/intc/arm_gic.h
+++ b/include/hw/intc/arm_gic.h
@@ -18,6 +18,49 @@
  * with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
  */
 
+/*
+ * QEMU interface:
+ *  + QOM property "num-cpu": number of CPUs to support
+ *  + QOM property "num-irq": number of IRQs (including both SPIs and PPIs)
+ *  + QOM property "revision": GIC version (1 or 2), or 0 for the 11MPCore GIC
+ *  + QOM property "has-security-extensions": set true if the GIC should
+ *    implement the security extensions
+ *  + QOM property "has-virtualization-extensions": set true if the GIC should
+ *    implement the virtualization extensions
+ *  + unnamed GPIO inputs: (where P is number of SPIs, i.e. num-irq - 32)
+ *    [0..P-1]  SPIs
+ *    [P..P+31] PPIs for CPU 0
+ *    [P+32..P+63] PPIs for CPU 1
+ *    ...
+ *  + sysbus IRQs: (in order; number will vary depending on number of cores)
+ *    - IRQ for CPU 0
+ *    - IRQ for CPU 1
+ *      ...
+ *    - FIQ for CPU 0
+ *    - FIQ for CPU 1
+ *      ...
+ *    - VIRQ for CPU 0 (exists even if virt extensions not present)
+ *    - VIRQ for CPU 1 (exists even if virt extensions not present)
+ *      ...
+ *    - VFIQ for CPU 0 (exists even if virt extensions not present)
+ *    - VFIQ for CPU 1 (exists even if virt extensions not present)
+ *      ...
+ *    - maintenance IRQ for CPU i/f 0 (only if virt extensions present)
+ *    - maintenance IRQ for CPU i/f 1 (only if virt extensions present)
+ *  + sysbus MMIO regions: (in order; numbers will vary depending on
+ *    whether virtualization extensions are present and on number of cores)
+ *    - distributor registers (GICD*)
+ *    - CPU interface for the accessing core (GICC*)
+ *    - virtual interface control registers (GICH*) (only if virt extns present)
+ *    - virtual CPU interface for the accessing core (GICV*) (only if virt)
+ *    - CPU 0 CPU interface registers
+ *    - CPU 1 CPU interface registers
+ *      ...
+ *    - CPU 0 virtual interface control registers (only if virt extns present)
+ *    - CPU 1 virtual interface control registers (only if virt extns present)
+ *      ...
+ */
+
 #ifndef HW_ARM_GIC_H
 #define HW_ARM_GIC_H