@@ -1882,6 +1882,7 @@ EDU
M: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
S: Maintained
F: hw/misc/edu.c
+F: docs/specs/edu.rst
IDE
M: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
similarity index 64%
rename from docs/specs/edu.txt
rename to docs/specs/edu.rst
@@ -2,9 +2,10 @@
EDU device
==========
-Copyright (c) 2014-2015 Jiri Slaby
+..
+ Copyright (c) 2014-2015 Jiri Slaby
-This document is licensed under the GPLv2 (or later).
+ This document is licensed under the GPLv2 (or later).
This is an educational device for writing (kernel) drivers. Its original
intention was to support the Linux kernel lectures taught at the Masaryk
@@ -15,10 +16,11 @@ The devices behaves very similar to the PCI bridge present in the COMBO6 cards
developed under the Liberouter wings. Both PCI device ID and PCI space is
inherited from that device.
-Command line switches:
- -device edu[,dma_mask=mask]
+Command line switches
+---------------------
- dma_mask makes the virtual device work with DMA addresses with the given
+``-device edu[,dma_mask=mask]``
+ ``dma_mask`` makes the virtual device work with DMA addresses with the given
mask. For educational purposes, the device supports only 28 bits (256 MiB)
by default. Students shall set dma_mask for the device in the OS driver
properly.
@@ -26,7 +28,8 @@ Command line switches:
PCI specs
---------
-PCI ID: 1234:11e8
+PCI ID:
+ ``1234:11e8``
PCI Region 0:
I/O memory, 1 MB in size. Users are supposed to communicate with the card
@@ -35,24 +38,29 @@ PCI Region 0:
MMIO area spec
--------------
-Only size == 4 accesses are allowed for addresses < 0x80. size == 4 or
-size == 8 for the rest.
+Only ``size == 4`` accesses are allowed for addresses ``< 0x80``.
+``size == 4`` or ``size == 8`` for the rest.
-0x00 (RO) : identification (0xRRrr00edu)
- RR -- major version
- rr -- minor version
+0x00 (RO) : identification
+ Value is in the form ``0xRRrr00edu`` where:
+ - ``RR`` -- major version
+ - ``rr`` -- minor version
0x04 (RW) : card liveness check
- It is a simple value inversion (~ C operator).
+ It is a simple value inversion (``~`` C operator).
0x08 (RW) : factorial computation
The stored value is taken and factorial of it is put back here.
This happens only after factorial bit in the status register (0x20
below) is cleared.
-0x20 (RW) : status register, bitwise OR
- 0x01 -- computing factorial (RO)
- 0x80 -- raise interrupt after finishing factorial computation
+0x20 (RW) : status register
+ Bitwise OR of:
+
+ 0x01
+ computing factorial (RO)
+ 0x80
+ raise interrupt after finishing factorial computation
0x24 (RO) : interrupt status register
It contains values which raised the interrupt (see interrupt raise
@@ -76,13 +84,19 @@ size == 8 for the rest.
0x90 (RW) : DMA transfer count
The size of the area to perform the DMA on.
-0x98 (RW) : DMA command register, bitwise OR
- 0x01 -- start transfer
- 0x02 -- direction (0: from RAM to EDU, 1: from EDU to RAM)
- 0x04 -- raise interrupt 0x100 after finishing the DMA
+0x98 (RW) : DMA command register
+ Bitwise OR of:
+
+ 0x01
+ start transfer
+ 0x02
+ direction (0: from RAM to EDU, 1: from EDU to RAM)
+ 0x04
+ raise interrupt 0x100 after finishing the DMA
IRQ controller
--------------
+
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.
@@ -94,22 +108,28 @@ routine.
DMA controller
--------------
+
One has to specify, source, destination, size, and start the transfer. One
4096 bytes long buffer at offset 0x40000 is available in the EDU device. I.e.
one can perform DMA to/from this space when programmed properly.
Example of transferring a 100 byte block to and from the buffer using a given
-PCI address 'addr':
-addr -> DMA source address
-0x40000 -> DMA destination address
-100 -> DMA transfer count
-1 -> DMA command register
-while (DMA command register & 1)
- ;
+PCI address ``addr``:
-0x40000 -> DMA source address
-addr+100 -> DMA destination address
-100 -> DMA transfer count
-3 -> DMA command register
-while (DMA command register & 1)
- ;
+::
+
+ addr -> DMA source address
+ 0x40000 -> DMA destination address
+ 100 -> DMA transfer count
+ 1 -> DMA command register
+ while (DMA command register & 1)
+ ;
+
+::
+
+ 0x40000 -> DMA source address
+ addr+100 -> DMA destination address
+ 100 -> DMA transfer count
+ 3 -> DMA command register
+ while (DMA command register & 1)
+ ;
@@ -25,3 +25,4 @@ guest hardware that is specific to QEMU.
sev-guest-firmware
fw_cfg
vmw_pvscsi-spec
+ edu