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authorPeter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>2016-09-28 21:03:39 +0800
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2016-10-04 10:00:25 +0200
commiteabb5782f70b4a10975b24ccd7129929a05ac932 (patch)
tree7c32841fbf0d48eea6383040b2dde1353446590f /docs/specs
parent3cf294eebc98da6e2ff7976fcdf6a9b41984840e (diff)
hw/misc/edu: support MSI interrupt
So now edu device can support both line or msi interrupt, depending on how user configures it. Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Message-Id: <1475067819-21413-1-git-send-email-peterx@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/docs/specs/edu.txt b/docs/specs/edu.txt
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@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ size == 8 for the rest.
0x20 (RW) : status register, bitwise OR
0x01 -- computing factorial (RO)
- 0x80 -- raise interrupt 0x01 after finishing factorial computation
+ 0x80 -- raise interrupt after finishing factorial computation
0x24 (RO) : interrupt status register
It contains values which raised the interrupt (see interrupt raise
@@ -87,6 +87,11 @@ An IRQ is generated when written to the interrupt raise register. The value
appears in interrupt status register when the interrupt is raised and has to
be written to the interrupt acknowledge register to lower it.
+The device supports both INTx and MSI interrupt. By default, INTx is
+used. Even if the driver disabled INTx and only uses MSI, it still
+needs to update the acknowledge register at the end of the IRQ handler
+routine.
+
DMA controller
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One has to specify, source, destination, size, and start the transfer. One