On Thu, 10 Feb 2022 at 09:13, Jimmy Brisson <jimmy.bris...@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 4 Feb 2022 at 11:14, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 2 Feb 2022 at 15:23, Jimmy Brisson <jimmy.bris...@linaro.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Turns out that this manifests in being unable to configure
> > > the ethernet access permissions, as the IotKitPPC looks
> > > these up by name.
> > >
> > > With this fix, eth is configurable
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Jimmy Brisson <jimmy.bris...@linaro.org>
> >
> > Can you explain the issue here in more detail, and maybe
> > provide a repro case ?
>
> Sure. I documented how I found this on my blog here:
> https://theotherjimmy.github.io/blog/blog/2022-01-31-debug-qemu-eth.html
> It's long, so I'll provide a quick summary here.
>
> My reproducer is the following zephyr example:
>
> ```
> west build -p auto -b mps3_an547_ns zephyr/samples/net/dhcpv4_client \
> -d build/mps3_an547_ns/net/dhcpv4_client -- \
> -DOVERLAY_CONFIG=overlay-smsc911x.conf \
> -DCONFIG_NET_QEMU_USER=y \
> -DCONFIG_BUILD_WITH_TFM=y \
> -DCOONFIG_TFM_IPC=y
> ```
>
> As part of my debugging, I was using gdb on both the guest (tfm &
> zephyr and host qemu).
> I was able to reproduce this quickly by dumping the associated
> smsc911x struct in guest gdb, and
> watching the breakpoints in the `tz_ppc_read` function. Digging
> through, it seems that when setting
> up the peripheral access control in `iotkit_secctl_update_ppc_ap`, it
> wrote the lowest 3 bits of the ap
> and ignored the rest. This matches the expected behavior from the APB PPC
> EXT0.
>
> Let me know if you have further questions,
> Jimmy
>
>
> > The AN547 document definitely thinks
> > that APB PPC EXP 0 has the Memory Protection Controllers and
> > AHB PPC EXP 0 has the GPIO, USB and Ethernet devices:
> > https://developer.arm.com/-/media/Arm%20Developer%20Community/PDF/DAI0547B_SSE300_PLUS_U55_FPGA_for_mps3.pdf
> > (tables 6-2 to 6-4 on pages 35, 36).
I looked that up, and funny story, the _actual_ problem is that we're
missing the User AHB interface 0-3 peripherals.
Without this change, and adding empty peripherals e.g. {}, as
placeholders it seems to work correctly.
> >
> > thanks
> > -- PMM
