History log of /gem5/src/dev/x86/SouthBridge.py
Revision Date Author Comments
# 14290:fa11f961ae4e 06-Sep-2019 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

dev, x86: Convert x86 devices to the generic int pins.

Change-Id: I4551ad00cf205c31555c90b53e87bc206a8d8729
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/20701
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>


# 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>


# 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.


# 10359:1e2f39859382 03-Sep-2014 Ali Saidi <Ali.Saidi@ARM.com>

dev: seperate legacy io offsets from PCI offset

The PC platform has a single IO range that is used both legacy IO and PCI IO
while other platforms may use seperate regions. Provide another mechanism to
configure the legacy IO base address range and set it to the PCI IO address
range for x86.


# 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.


# 9162:019047ead23b 21-Aug-2012 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

Device: Remove overloaded pio_latency parameter

This patch removes the overloading of the parameter, which seems both
redundant, and possibly incorrect.

The PciConfigAll now also uses a Param.Latency rather than a
Param.Tick. For backwards compatibility it still sets the pio_latency
to 1 tick. All the comments have also been updated to not state that
it is in simticks when it is not necessarily the case.


# 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.


# 8714:cd48e2802644 17-Jan-2012 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

MEM: Removing the default port peer from Python ports

In preparation for the introduction of Master and Slave ports, this
patch removes the default port parameter in the Python port and thus
forces the argument list of the Port to contain only the
description. The drawback at this point is that the config port and
dma port of PCI and DMA devices have to be connected explicitly. This
is key for future diversification as the pio and config port are
slaves, but the dma port is a master.


# 8323:fd20dcf1a9aa 23-May-2011 Steve Reinhardt <steve.reinhardt@amd.com>

config: revamp x86 config to avoid appending to SimObjectVectors
A significant contributor to the need for adoptOrphanParams()
is the practice of appending to SimObjectVectors which have
already been assigned as children. This practice sidesteps the
assignment operation for those appended SimObjects, which is
where parent/child relationships are typically established.

This patch reworks the config scripts that use append() on
SimObjectVectors, which all happen to be in the x86 system
configuration. At some point in the future, I hope to make
SimObjectVectors immutable (by deriving from tuple rather than
list), at which time this patch will be necessary for correct
operation. For now, it just avoids some of the warning
messages that get printed in adoptOrphanParams().


# 6432:550f76603d41 02-Aug-2009 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

X86: Set up the IDE device correctly, ie. with and using legacy ports.


# 5843:a2c317cefcf8 01-Feb-2009 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

X86: Configure the first PCI interrupt.


# 5842:1349786dd9a7 01-Feb-2009 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

X86: Hook up the IDE controller interrupt line.


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

X86: Plug in an IDE controller.


# 5831:ee307cca6d31 01-Feb-2009 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

X86: Add a keyboard controller device.


# 5827:ac2c268bf4f1 01-Feb-2009 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

X86: Rework interrupt pins to allow one to many connections.


# 5818:b47de42ec8b2 25-Jan-2009 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

X86: Add a dummy minimal DMA controller that doesn't do anything.


# 5651:7f0c8006c3d7 12-Oct-2008 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

X86: Make APICs communicate through the memory system.


# 5643:2b1611137af4 11-Oct-2008 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

X86: Create an IO APIC device.


# 5637:3d2451ebad92 11-Oct-2008 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

X86: Bring the South Bridge device into dev/x86 and get rid of south_bridge directory.