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authorPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2021-07-02 09:53:58 +0100
committerPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2021-07-02 11:30:26 +0100
commit3a4501d85e536f55b03b79fdb9763c39c1073eba (patch)
tree08e6ba32152a563b26f71e0eff96eac88086dcaa
parentdce3734892191fd14d5c983c85ce37c233cb6238 (diff)
hw/arm/stellaris: Expand comment about handling of OLED chipselectgpio-pwr
The stellaris board doesn't emulate the handling of the OLED chipselect line correctly. Expand the comment describing this, including a sketch of the theoretical correct way to do it. Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> --- Given the stellaris board is old and not very useful these days, I didn't think it worth the effort of actually implementing the correct behaviour, but I wanted to record what I figured out from various data sheets while I was looking at PL061 stuff...
-rw-r--r--hw/arm/stellaris.c56
1 files changed, 55 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/hw/arm/stellaris.c b/hw/arm/stellaris.c
index 8b4dab9b79..ad48cf2605 100644
--- a/hw/arm/stellaris.c
+++ b/hw/arm/stellaris.c
@@ -1453,13 +1453,67 @@ static void stellaris_init(MachineState *ms, stellaris_board_info *board)
DeviceState *sddev;
DeviceState *ssddev;
- /* Some boards have both an OLED controller and SD card connected to
+ /*
+ * Some boards have both an OLED controller and SD card connected to
* the same SSI port, with the SD card chip select connected to a
* GPIO pin. Technically the OLED chip select is connected to the
* SSI Fss pin. We do not bother emulating that as both devices
* should never be selected simultaneously, and our OLED controller
* ignores stray 0xff commands that occur when deselecting the SD
* card.
+ *
+ * The h/w wiring is:
+ * - GPIO pin D0 is wired to the active-low SD card chip select
+ * - GPIO pin A3 is wired to the active-low OLED chip select
+ * - The SoC wiring of the PL061 "auxiliary function" for A3 is
+ * SSI0Fss ("frame signal"), which is an output from the SoC's
+ * SSI controller. The SSI controller takes SSI0Fss low when it
+ * transmits a frame, so it can work as a chip-select signal.
+ * - GPIO A4 is aux-function SSI0Rx, and wired to the SD card Tx
+ * (the OLED never sends data to the CPU, so no wiring needed)
+ * - GPIO A5 is aux-function SSI0Tx, and wired to the SD card Rx
+ * and the OLED display-data-in
+ * - GPIO A2 is aux-function SSI0Clk, wired to SD card and OLED
+ * serial-clock input
+ * So a guest that wants to use the OLED can configure the PL061
+ * to make pins A2, A3, A5 aux-function, so they are connected
+ * directly to the SSI controller. When the SSI controller sends
+ * data it asserts SSI0Fss which selects the OLED.
+ * A guest that wants to use the SD card configures A2, A4 and A5
+ * as aux-function, but leaves A3 as a software-controlled GPIO
+ * line. It asserts the SD card chip-select by using the PL061
+ * to control pin D0, and lets the SSI controller handle Clk, Tx
+ * and Rx. (The SSI controller asserts Fss during tx cycles as
+ * usual, but because A3 is not set to aux-function this is not
+ * forwarded to the OLED, and so the OLED stays unselected.)
+ *
+ * The QEMU implementation instead is:
+ * - GPIO pin D0 is wired to the active-low SD card chip select,
+ * and also to the OLED chip-select which is implemented
+ * as *active-high*
+ * - SSI controller signals go to the devices regardless of
+ * whether the guest programs A2, A4, A5 as aux-function or not
+ *
+ * The problem with this implementation is if the guest doesn't
+ * care about the SD card and only uses the OLED. In that case it
+ * may choose never to do anything with D0 (leaving it in its
+ * default floating state, which reliably leaves the card disabled
+ * because an SD card has a pullup on CS within the card itself),
+ * and only set up A2, A3, A5. This for us would mean the OLED
+ * never gets the chip-select assert it needs. We work around
+ * this with a manual raise of D0 here (despite board creation
+ * code being the wrong place to raise IRQ lines) to put the OLED
+ * into an initially selected state.
+ *
+ * In theory the right way to model this would be:
+ * - Implement aux-function support in the PL061, with an
+ * extra set of AFIN and AFOUT GPIO lines (set up so that
+ * if a GPIO line is in auxfn mode the main GPIO in and out
+ * track the AFIN and AFOUT lines)
+ * - Wire the AFOUT for D0 up to either a line from the
+ * SSI controller that's pulled low around every transmit,
+ * or at least to an always-0 line here on the board
+ * - Make the ssd0323 OLED controller chipselect active-low
*/
bus = qdev_get_child_bus(dev, "ssi");