Re: [RFC PATCH-for-9.1? 1/2] target/arm: Move qmp_query_gic_capabilities() to hw/intc/

[Peter Maydell]

On Thu, 8 Aug 2024 at 05:32, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:
>
> [...]
>
> > The QAPI command which this code is implementing is
> > also (a) target-specific and (b) unfortunately
> > designed so that it doesn't get passed a particular
> > CPU or particular device to query, it's just assumed
> > to be a part of the whole simulation.
>
> We can fix (b) if we care: add a suitable optional argument, default to
> the sole GIC in the system, fail if there's more than one.  I assume we
> have no machines with more than one now.

The exynos4210 SoC (board types 'nuri', 'smdkc210') has
two GICs. (It's a rather odd design -- there's the
interrupt controller that's part of the main CPU
cluster, and then they used a second "external" GIC
that feeds into that one.)

-- PMM