On 9/2/20 4:24 AM, Helge Deller wrote:
> On 01.09.20 23:39, Richard Henderson wrote:
>> On 9/1/20 11:34 AM, Helge Deller wrote:
>>> -/* QEMU fw_cfg interface port */
>>> -#define QEMU_FW_CFG_IO_BASE     (MEMORY_HPA + 0x80)
>>> +#define FW_CFG_IO_BASE  0xfffa0000
>>
>> Why is this value changing?
> 
> Devices on hppa occupy at least 4k starting at the HPA,
> so MEMORY_HPA+4k is blocked (by Linux) for the memory module.
> I noticed this when testing the new Linux kernel patch to
> let the fw_cfg entries show up in Linux under /proc:
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11715133/
> The Linux kernel driver could not allocate the region for fw_cfg.
> This new base address seems to not conflict.

Then that information should be in a patch description, and the change should
be a completely separate patch.


r~

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