The ARM GICv3 TRM describes that the ITLinesNumber field of GICD_TYPER
register:
"indicates the maximum SPI INTID that the GIC implementation supports"
As SPI #0 is absolute IRQ #32, the max SPI INTID should have accounted
for the internal 16x SGI's and 16x PPI's. However, the original GICv3
model subtracted off the SGI/PPI. Cosmetically this can be seen at OS
boot (Linux) showing 32 shy of what should be there, i.e.:
[ 0.000000] GICv3: 224 SPIs implemented
Though in hw/arm/virt.c, the machine is configured for 256 SPI's. ARM
virt machine likely doesn't have a problem with this because the upper
32 IRQ's don't actually have anything meaningful wired. But, this does
become a functional issue on a custom use case which wants to make use
of these IRQ's. Additionally, boot code (i.e. TF-A) will only init up
to the number (blocks of 32) that it believes to actually be there.
Signed-off-by: Luke Starrett <lukes@xsightlabs.com>
Message-id: AM9P193MB168473D99B761E204E032095D40D9@AM9P193MB1684.EURP193.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
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