Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/20] GICv3 emulation

[Peter Maydell]

On 22 June 2016 at 19:09, Ed Maste <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 15 June 2016 at 06:10, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> A quick scan through http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/arm64/arm64/gic_v3.c
>> doesn't seem to show it setting the IGROUPR registers anywhere,
>> so it probably is a guest bug. (You can use "-d 'trace:gicv3*'" to
>> enable the tracepoints for the GIC which would let you check whether
>> the guest ever tries to write to the group config registers.)
>
> Is there a prebuilt QEMU_EFI.fd available somewhere for testing a
> FreeBSD change to address this? I've been using the prebuilt ones from
> https://wiki.linaro.org/LEG/UEFIforQEMU and the latest one I had did
> not start with gic-version=3.

Yeah, it looks like the same bug is also present in UEFI itself
(it's super popular!). Laszlo, Ard, do you have a prebuilt
UEFI binary with Ard's fix?

Probably you'll find that if UEFI is configuring the GIC interrupt
groups FreeBSD will boot even without doing it itself, but I
think ideally FreeBSD shouldn't assume the bootloader's done
that job for it.

thanks
-- PMM