[edk2-devel] [edk2-platforms][PATCH V2 0/5] Enable SoC expansion block and Virtio-P9 for RD-N2 variants

[PierreGondois]

Hello Vivek,

On 1/27/23 10:23, Vivek Gautam wrote:
> Arm reference design Fixed Virtual Platforms (FVPs) such as the RD-N2
> platform variants have multiple IO virtualization blocks that allow
> connecting PCIe root bus or non-PCIe SoC peripherals to the system.
> Each of these IO virtualization blocks consists of an Arm SMMUv3, a
> GIC-ITS and a NCI (network chip interconnect).
> 
> SoC expansion blocks connect to the IO virtualization blocks via x4, x8
> or x16 ports exposed by the system. A SoC expansion block implementation
> includes 2 UARTs, 2 DMA devices and 2 Memory nodes.
> 
> In addition, Arm reference design platforms support Virtio-P9 device as
> part of the Rest of System (RoS). The Virtio-P9 device implements a
> subset of the Plan 9 file protocol over a virtio transport that enables
> accessing a shared directory on the host's filesystem from a running
> FVP platform.
> 
> This patch series adds SSDT tables for various RD-N2 platforms such as
> RD-N2, RD-N2-Cfg1, and RD-N2-Cfg2 to describe the SoC expansion block
> devices - UARTs, and DMAs and the Virtio-P9 devices present on the
> platforms. The patches also add support for platform DXE driver to
> initialize the UARTs that are present in SoC expansion blocks. By
> default these UARTs are kept disabled and can be enabled with a Pcd -
> PcdIoVirtSocExpBlkUartEnable.
> 
> This patch series is now a combination of two patch series [1] and [2]
> that added Virtio-P9 support and SoC expansion block (non-discoverable)
> IO block for RD-N2:
> [edk2-platforms][PATCH V1 0/2] Enable Virtio-P9 on RD-N2 platforms
> [edk2-platforms][PATCH V1 0/6] Add non-discoverable IO block for Rd-N2
> 
> [1] https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/94936
> [2] https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/86646
> 
> Changes since v1:
>   - Minor update to Virtio-P9 SSDT table:
>     - Name of the DefinitionBlock() is set to SsdtRosVirtioP9.aml rather
>       than SsdtRosVirtioP9Table.aml
>   - Updates to SoC expansion block:
>     - Removed IORT table for SoC expansion block and kept only the SSDT
>       table for devices.

Is it possible to know why the IORT table was removed ?

>     - SSDT table now uses arithmetic operations to calculate the start
>       and end addresses of the devices in QWordMemory() blocks.
>     - The number of PCDs for UARTs and DMAs are now reduced as the
>       addresses are now calculated within the SSDT table based on the
>       SoC expansion block base address and device offsets.
>     - Defined macros for Interrupt() block for various DMA nodes.
>     - Removed the first patch of the series that added PCDs for SMMU:
>       [PATCH V1 1/6] Platform/Sgi: add PCDs for SMMUv3 base address and interrupts
>     - Added support for SoC expansion block on RD-N2-Cfg2 platform as
>       well.
> 
> Shriram K (1):
>    Platform/Sgi: Initialize additional UART controllers
> 
> Vivek Gautam (4):
>    Platform/Sgi: Add SSDT table for Virtio-P9
>    Platform/Sgi: Enable virtio-p9 device on RD-N2 platform variants
>    Platform/Sgi: Add SSDT table for IO virtualization SoC expansion block
>    Platform/Sgi: Enable SoC expansion block for RD-N2 variants

For the Virtio-P9 patches:
- Platform/Sgi: Add SSDT table for Virtio-P9
- Platform/Sgi: Enable virtio-p9 device on RD-N2 platform variants
Reviewed-by: Pierre Gondois <pierre.gondois at arm.com>
I had some questions for the other patches.

Regards,
Pierre

> 
>   Platform/ARM/SgiPkg/SgiMemoryMap2.dsc.inc                |  12 +-
>   Platform/ARM/SgiPkg/AcpiTables/RdN2AcpiTables.inf        |  15 +-
>   Platform/ARM/SgiPkg/AcpiTables/RdN2Cfg1AcpiTables.inf    |  15 +-
>   Platform/ARM/SgiPkg/AcpiTables/RdN2Cfg2AcpiTables.inf    |  11 +-
>   Platform/ARM/SgiPkg/Drivers/PlatformDxe/PlatformDxe.inf  |  10 +-
>   Platform/ARM/SgiPkg/Library/PlatformLib/PlatformLib.inf  |   7 +-
>   Platform/ARM/SgiPkg/Include/IoVirtSoCExp.h               | 189 ++++++++++++++++++++
>   Platform/ARM/SgiPkg/Drivers/PlatformDxe/PlatformDxe.c    |  64 ++++++-
>   Platform/ARM/SgiPkg/Library/PlatformLib/PlatformLibMem.c |  43 ++++-
>   Platform/ARM/SgiPkg/AcpiTables/SsdtIoVirtSocExp.asl      |  96 ++++++++++
>   Platform/ARM/SgiPkg/AcpiTables/SsdtRosVirtioP9.asl       |  42 +++++
>   Platform/ARM/SgiPkg/SgiPlatform.dec                      |  13 +-
>   12 files changed, 503 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>   create mode 100644 Platform/ARM/SgiPkg/Include/IoVirtSoCExp.h
>   create mode 100644 Platform/ARM/SgiPkg/AcpiTables/SsdtIoVirtSocExp.asl
>   create mode 100644 Platform/ARM/SgiPkg/AcpiTables/SsdtRosVirtioP9.asl
> 


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