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2EDU device
3==========
4
5..
6   Copyright (c) 2014-2015 Jiri Slaby
7
8   This document is licensed under the GPLv2 (or later).
9
10This is an educational device for writing (kernel) drivers. Its original
11intention was to support the Linux kernel lectures taught at the Masaryk
12University. Students are given this virtual device and are expected to write a
13driver with I/Os, IRQs, DMAs and such.
14
15The devices behaves very similar to the PCI bridge present in the COMBO6 cards
16developed under the Liberouter wings. Both PCI device ID and PCI space is
17inherited from that device.
18
19Command line switches
20---------------------
21
22``-device edu[,dma_mask=mask]``
23    ``dma_mask`` makes the virtual device work with DMA addresses with the given
24    mask. For educational purposes, the device supports only 28 bits (256 MiB)
25    by default. Students shall set dma_mask for the device in the OS driver
26    properly.
27
28PCI specs
29---------
30
31PCI ID:
32   ``1234:11e8``
33
34PCI Region 0:
35   I/O memory, 1 MB in size. Users are supposed to communicate with the card
36   through this memory.
37
38MMIO area spec
39--------------
40
41Only ``size == 4`` accesses are allowed for addresses ``< 0x80``.
42``size == 4`` or ``size == 8`` for the rest.
43
440x00 (RO) : identification
45            Value is in the form ``0xRRrr00edu`` where:
46	    - ``RR`` -- major version
47	    - ``rr`` -- minor version
48
490x04 (RW) : card liveness check
50	    It is a simple value inversion (``~`` C operator).
51
520x08 (RW) : factorial computation
53	    The stored value is taken and factorial of it is put back here.
54	    This happens only after factorial bit in the status register (0x20
55	    below) is cleared.
56
570x20 (RW) : status register
58            Bitwise OR of:
59
60            0x01
61              computing factorial (RO)
62	    0x80
63              raise interrupt after finishing factorial computation
64
650x24 (RO) : interrupt status register
66	    It contains values which raised the interrupt (see interrupt raise
67	    register below).
68
690x60 (WO) : interrupt raise register
70	    Raise an interrupt. The value will be put to the interrupt status
71	    register (using bitwise OR).
72
730x64 (WO) : interrupt acknowledge register
74	    Clear an interrupt. The value will be cleared from the interrupt
75	    status register. This needs to be done from the ISR to stop
76	    generating interrupts.
77
780x80 (RW) : DMA source address
79	    Where to perform the DMA from.
80
810x88 (RW) : DMA destination address
82	    Where to perform the DMA to.
83
840x90 (RW) : DMA transfer count
85	    The size of the area to perform the DMA on.
86
870x98 (RW) : DMA command register
88            Bitwise OR of:
89
90            0x01
91              start transfer
92	    0x02
93              direction (0: from RAM to EDU, 1: from EDU to RAM)
94	    0x04
95              raise interrupt 0x100 after finishing the DMA
96
97IRQ controller
98--------------
99
100An IRQ is generated when written to the interrupt raise register. The value
101appears in interrupt status register when the interrupt is raised and has to
102be written to the interrupt acknowledge register to lower it.
103
104The device supports both INTx and MSI interrupt. By default, INTx is
105used. Even if the driver disabled INTx and only uses MSI, it still
106needs to update the acknowledge register at the end of the IRQ handler
107routine.
108
109DMA controller
110--------------
111
112One has to specify, source, destination, size, and start the transfer. One
1134096 bytes long buffer at offset 0x40000 is available in the EDU device. I.e.
114one can perform DMA to/from this space when programmed properly.
115
116Example of transferring a 100 byte block to and from the buffer using a given
117PCI address ``addr``:
118
119::
120
121  addr     -> DMA source address
122  0x40000  -> DMA destination address
123  100      -> DMA transfer count
124  1        -> DMA command register
125  while (DMA command register & 1)
126      ;
127
128::
129
130  0x40000  -> DMA source address
131  addr+100 -> DMA destination address
132  100      -> DMA transfer count
133  3        -> DMA command register
134  while (DMA command register & 1)
135      ;
136