Comment 15 for bug 1892540

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Philippe Mathieu-Daudé (philmd) wrote : Re: [PATCH v3] hw/display/tcx: Allow 64-bit accesses to framebuffer stippler and blitter

On 10/25/20 11:55 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> On 24/10/2020 21:51, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>
>> The S24/TCX datasheet is listed as "Unable to locate" on [1].
>>
>> However the NetBSD revision 1.32 of the driver introduced
>> 64-bit accesses to the stippler and blitter [2]. It is safe
>> to assume these memory regions are 64-bit accessible.
>> QEMU implementation is 32-bit, so fill the 'impl' fields.
>>
>> Michael Lorenz (author of the NetBSD code [2]) provided us with more
>> information in [3]:
>>
>>> IIRC the real hardware *requires* 64bit accesses for stipple and
>>> blitter operations to work. For stipples you write a 64bit word into
>>> STIP space, the address defines where in the framebuffer you want to
>>> draw, the data contain a 32bit bitmask, foreground colour and a ROP.
>>> BLIT space works similarly, the 64bit word contains an offset were to
>>> read pixels from, and how many you want to copy.
>>>
>>> One more thing since there seems to be some confusion - 64bit accesses
>>> on the framebuffer are fine as well. TCX/S24 is *not* an SBus device,
>>> even though its node says it is.
>>> S24 is a card that plugs into a special slot on the SS5 mainboard,
>>> which is shared with an SBus slot and looks a lot like a horizontal
>>> UPA slot. Both S24 and TCX are accessed through the Micro/TurboSPARC's
>>> AFX bus which is 64bit wide and intended for graphics.
>>> Early FFB docs even mentioned connecting to both AFX and UPA,
>>> no idea if that was ever realized in hardware though.
>>
>> [1]
>> http://web.archive.org/web/20111209011516/http://wikis.sun.com/display/FOSSdocs/Home
>>
>> [2]
>> http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/sbus/tcx.c.diff?r1=1.31&r2=1.32
>>
>> [3] https://<email address hidden>/msg734928.html
>>
>> Reported-by: Andreas Gustafsson <email address hidden>
>> Buglink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1892540
>> Fixes: 55d7bfe2293 ("tcx: Implement hardware acceleration")
>> Tested-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <email address hidden>
>> Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <email address hidden>
>> Tested-by: Andreas Gustafsson <email address hidden>
>> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <email address hidden>
>> ---
>> Since v2:
>> - added Michael's memories
>> - added R-b/T-b tags
>>
>> Since v1:
>> - added missing uncommitted staged changes... (tcx_blit_ops)
>> ---
>>   hw/display/tcx.c | 18 +++++++++++++++---
>>   1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/hw/display/tcx.c b/hw/display/tcx.c
>> index c9d5e45cd1f..878ecc8c506 100644
>> --- a/hw/display/tcx.c
>> +++ b/hw/display/tcx.c
>> @@ -549,20 +549,28 @@ static const MemoryRegionOps tcx_stip_ops = {
>>       .read = tcx_stip_readl,
>>       .write = tcx_stip_writel,
>>       .endianness = DEVICE_NATIVE_ENDIAN,
>> -    .valid = {
>> +    .impl = {
>>           .min_access_size = 4,
>>           .max_access_size = 4,
>>       },
>> +    .valid = {
>> +        .min_access_size = 4,
>> +        .max_access_size = 8,
>> +    },
>>   };
>>   static const MemoryRegionOps tcx_rstip_ops = {
>>       .read = tcx_stip_readl,
>>       .write = tcx_rstip_writel,
>>       .endianness = DEVICE_NATIVE_ENDIAN,
>> -    .valid = {
>> +    .impl = {
>>           .min_access_size = 4,
>>           .max_access_size = 4,
>>       },
>> +    .valid = {
>> +        .min_access_size = 4,
>> +        .max_access_size = 8,
>> +    },
>>   };
>>   static uint64_t tcx_blit_readl(void *opaque, hwaddr addr,
>> @@ -651,10 +659,14 @@ static const MemoryRegionOps tcx_rblit_ops = {
>>       .read = tcx_blit_readl,
>>       .write = tcx_rblit_writel,
>>       .endianness = DEVICE_NATIVE_ENDIAN,
>> -    .valid = {
>> +    .impl = {
>>           .min_access_size = 4,
>>           .max_access_size = 4,
>>       },
>> +    .valid = {
>> +        .min_access_size = 4,
>> +        .max_access_size = 8,
>> +    },
>>   };
>>   static void tcx_invalidate_cursor_position(TCXState *s)
>
> I'd already queued v2 of this patch (see my earlier email) with the
> intent to send a PR today, however I'll replace it with this v3 instead.

Thanks! Since there is no code change with v2, I assumed it wouldn't be
a problem to replace it, without having to re-run your tests.

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> ATB,
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> Mark.
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