History log of /gem5/src/dev/x86/Pc.py
Revision Date Author Comments
# 13665:9c7fe3811b88 25-Jan-2019 Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>

python: Don't assume SimObjects live in the global namespace

The importer in Python 3 doesn't like the way we import SimObjects
from the global namespace. Convert the existing SimObject declarations
to import from m5.objects. As a side-effect, this makes these files
consistent with configuration files.

Change-Id: I11153502b430822130722839e1fa767b82a027aa
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/15981
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>


# 12274:54db59c99230 17-Nov-2017 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

dev: Fix the SPARC and X86 platform devices.

A recent serial device refactoring changed the name of the parameter
that the terminal device gets attached to on the UART. The x86 and
SPARC platform devices didn't get updated though, and were still using
the old name. This change updates those objects.

Reported-by: Kanad Basu <kanad.kut@gmail.com>
Change-Id: I0824a9df8639062d8561420ea9ffea26b8b7e2e9
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/5781
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>


# 11244:a2af58a06c4e 04-Dec-2015 Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>

dev: Rewrite PCI host functionality

The gem5's current PCI host functionality is very ad hoc. The current
implementations require PCI devices to be hooked up to the
configuration space via a separate configuration port. Devices query
the platform to get their config-space address range. Un-mapped parts
of the config space are intercepted using the XBar's default port
mechanism and a magic catch-all device (PciConfigAll).

This changeset redesigns the PCI host functionality to improve code
reuse and make config-space and interrupt mapping more
transparent. Existing platform code has been updated to use the new
PCI host and configured to stay backwards compatible (i.e., no
guest-side visible changes). The current implementation does not
expose any new functionality, but it can easily be extended with
features such as automatic interrupt mapping.

PCI devices now register themselves with a PCI host controller. The
host controller interface is defined in the abstract base class
PciHost. Registration is done by PciHost::registerDevice() which takes
the device, its bus position (bus/dev/func tuple), and its interrupt
pin (INTA-INTC) as a parameter. The registration interface returns a
PciHost::DeviceInterface that the PCI device can use to query memory
mappings and signal interrupts.

The host device manages the entire PCI configuration space. Accesses
to devices decoded into the devices bus position and then forwarded to
the correct device.

Basic PCI host functionality is implemented in the GenericPciHost base
class. Most platforms can use this class as a basic PCI controller. It
provides the following functionality:

* Configurable configuration space decoding. The number of bits
dedicated to a device is a prameter, making it possible to support
both CAM, ECAM, and legacy mappings.

* Basic interrupt mapping using the interruptLine value from a
device's configuration space. This behavior is the same as in the
old implementation. More advanced controllers can override the
interrupt mapping method to dynamically assign host interrupts to
PCI devices.

* Simple (base + addr) remapping from the PCI bus's address space to
physical addresses for PIO, memory, and DMA.


# 10548:a4d0e8c2869c 21-Nov-2014 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

x86: pc: Put a stub IO device at port 0xed which the kernel can use for delays.

There was already a stub device at 0x80, the port traditionally used for an IO
delay. 0x80 is also the port used for POST codes sent by firmware, and that
may have prompted adding this port as a second option.


# 10256:5e00e947f5d9 19-Jul-2014 Binh Pham <binhpham@cs.rutgers.edu>

x86: make PioBus return BadAddress errors

Stop setting the use_default_range flag in PioBus in order to
have random bad addresses result in a BadAddress response and
not a gem5 fatal error. This is necessary in Ruby as Ruby is
connected directly to PioBus, so misspeculated addresses will
be sent there directly. For the classic memory system, this
change has no effect, as bad addresses are caught by the
memory bus before being sent to the PioBus.

This work was done while Binh was an intern at AMD Research.


# 9983:2cce74fe359e 25-Nov-2013 Steve Reinhardt <stever@gmail.com>, Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>, Ali Saidi <Ali.Saidi@ARM.com>

sim: simulate with multiple threads and event queues
This patch adds support for simulating with multiple threads, each of
which operates on an event queue. Each sim object specifies which eventq
is would like to be on. A custom barrier implementation is being added
using which eventqs synchronize.

The patch was tested in two different configurations:
1. ruby_network_test.py: in this simulation L1 cache controllers receive
requests from the cpu. The requests are replied to immediately without
any communication taking place with any other level.
2. twosys-tsunami-simple-atomic: this configuration simulates a client-server
system which are connected by an ethernet link.

We still lack the ability to communicate using message buffers or ports. But
other things like simulation start and end, synchronizing after every quantum
are working.

Committed by: Nilay Vaish


# 9338:97b4a2be1e5b 02-Nov-2012 Andreas Sandberg <Andreas.Sandberg@arm.com>

sim: Include object header files in SWIG interfaces

When casting objects in the generated SWIG interfaces, SWIG uses
classical C-style casts ( (Foo *)bar; ). In some cases, this can
degenerate into the equivalent of a reinterpret_cast (mainly if only a
forward declaration of the type is available). This usually works for
most compilers, but it is known to break if multiple inheritance is
used anywhere in the object hierarchy.

This patch introduces the cxx_header attribute to Python SimObject
definitions, which should be used to specify a header to include in
the SWIG interface. The header should include the declaration of the
wrapped object. We currently don't enforce header the use of the
header attribute, but a warning will be generated for objects that do
not use it.


# 8929:4148f9af0b70 05-Apr-2012 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

Config: corrects the way Ruby attaches to the DMA ports
With recent changes to the memory system, a port cannot be assigned a peer
port twice. While making use of the Ruby memory system in FS mode, DMA
ports were assigned peer twice, once for the classic memory system
and once for the Ruby memory system. This patch removes this double
assignment of peer ports.


# 8839:eeb293859255 13-Feb-2012 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

MEM: Introduce the master/slave port roles in the Python classes

This patch classifies all ports in Python as either Master or Slave
and enforces a binding of master to slave. Conceptually, a master (such
as a CPU or DMA port) issues requests, and receives responses, and
conversely, a slave (such as a memory or a PIO device) receives
requests and sends back responses. Currently there is no
differentiation between coherent and non-coherent masters and slaves.

The classification as master/slave also involves splitting the dual
role port of the bus into a master and slave port and updating all the
system assembly scripts to use the appropriate port. Similarly, the
interrupt devices have to have their int_port split into a master and
slave port. The intdev and its children have minimal changes to
facilitate the extra port.

Note that this patch does not enforce any port typing in the C++
world, it merely ensures that the Python objects have a notion of the
port roles and are connected in an appropriate manner. This check is
carried when two ports are connected, e.g. bus.master =
memory.port. The following patches will make use of the
classifications and specialise the C++ ports into masters and slaves.


# 7523:9c8fdcdae976 17-Aug-2010 Steve Reinhardt <steve.reinhardt@amd.com>

bus: clean up default responder code.
Clean up some minor things left over from the default responder
change in rev 9af6fb59752f. Mostly renaming the 'responder_set'
param to 'use_default_range' to actually reflect what it does...
old name wasn't that descriptive in the first place, but now
it really doesn't make sense at all.

Also got rid of the bogus obsolete assignment to 'bus.responder'
which used to be a parameter but now is interpreted as an
implicit child assignment, and which was giving me problems in
the config restructuring to come. (A good argument for not
allowing implicit child assignments, IMO, but that's water under
the bridge, I'm afraid.)

Also moved the Bus constructor to the .cc file since that's
where it should have been all along.


# 5833:5a07c4e3249b 01-Feb-2009 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

X86: Plug in an IDE controller.


# 5817:b6d0cab9890a 25-Jan-2009 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

X86: Add a device to back the non-existant floppy drive controller.


# 5816:b35d43e2e303 25-Jan-2009 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

X86: Add fake devices for non-existant serial ports.


# 5638:dc073dc6358b 11-Oct-2008 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

X86: Rename the PC device to Pc.