Re: [Minios-devel] [UNIKRAFT PATCHv4 17/43] plat/include: Define macros for Arm64 to access registers

[Simon Kuenzer <simon.kuenzer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Wei, hey Julien,

On 12.07.2018 13:17, Julien Grall wrote:
> On 12/07/18 03:41, Wei Chen wrote:
> > Hi Julien,
> Hi Wei,
>
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: 2018年7月11日 21:16
> > > To: Wei Chen <Wei.Chen@xxxxxxx>; minios-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> > > simon.kuenzer@xxxxxxxxx
> > > Cc: Kaly Xin <Kaly.Xin@xxxxxxx>; nd <nd@xxxxxxx>
> > > Subject: Re: [Minios-devel] [UNIKRAFT PATCHv4 17/43] plat/include: 
> > > Define
> > > macros for Arm64 to access registers
> > >
> > > On 11/07/18 07:28, Wei Chen wrote:
> > > > Hi Julien,
> > > Hi Wei,
> > >
> > > > Yes, the only device we're using on Arm is PL011, so it's the only one
> > > > user of this today.
> > > I meant for outb/inb. Not REG_READ*() helpers. So do you have any users
> > > of outb/inb today for Arm?
I also prefer the IOREG name for the macros.

> > Yes, the common code like PCI bus will use it. Even I know the PCI bus
> > could not work properly on Arm. But I still want the PCI code can be
> > compiled on Arm.
> What's the rationale of compiling PCI code if it is wrong? Mostly like 
> PCI code will use through 0xcf8/0xcfc that does not have equivalent on 
> Arm. Instead, we will need to add support for ECAM.
> Anyway that's the maintainers call here. However, you should at least 
> not implement outb/inb the way you did. This is a call to misuse them. 
> Instead you should implement using BUG() or ASSERT(). So any use of 
> those outb will be caught later on.
We should ignore outb/inb/etc. for now. The PCI code is not ready for 
ARM yet and I would suggest to make it ready with another patch series. 
With this one, we should in fact introduce a proper API for accessing 
PCI device registers. inb/outb/... should be replaced.
> Cheers,
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