[SLOF] [PATCH v2 0/5] usb: Add support for USB3 devices behind a hub

[Thomas Huth]

On 03.08.2016 06:28, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> On 02/08/16 19:19, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> The current XHCI code in SLOF can not deal with USB devices that
>> are attached to a hub, since it does not set up the so-called
>> "route string" in the slot context data yet. For example, with the
>> following command, SLOF fails to detect the keyboard and it is not
>> possible to type in any key in the VGA console:
>>
>> qemu-system-ppc64 -nodefaults -vga std \
>>   -device nec-usb-xhci,id=controller1 \
>>   `for ((i=0;i<32;i++)); do echo " -device usb-mouse" ; done ` \
>>   -device usb-kbd -serial stdio
> 
> 
> I applied and pushed it to github

Thanks!

> however I got few questions.
> The command line above does not add any hub, this does:

Have you tried it? For me, QEMU automatically adds some hubs here
inbetween because otherwise, there would not be enough free ports to
connect all USB devices.

> /home/aik/qemu-system-ppc64 -enable-kvm -m 4G \
> -trace events=qemu_trace_events -vga std -nodefaults \
> -device nec-usb-xhci,id=nec-usb-xhci0 \
> -device usb-hub,id=usb-hub0,port=1 \
> -device usb-kbd,id=usb-kbd0,port=1.2 \
> -serial stdio -bios slof-xhci.bin -machine pseries -smp 16,threads=8
> 
> I am surprised there is no "usb-hub0.1"-ish bus in "info qtree" so I am not
> sure my command line puts the keyboard to that hub but I think it does.

Simply type "dev / ls" at the SLOF prompt. There you can see that it is
indeed connected to a hub:

0 > dev / ls
7e520340 :  /
7e520718 :  |-- cpus
7e5209a0 :  |   +-- PowerPC,POWER7 at 0
7e5212d0 :  |-- pci at 800000020000000
7e523858 :  |   |-- usb at 1
7e559960 :  |   |   +-- hub at 1
7e55a020 :  |   |       +-- usb-keyboard at 2

> What I also noticed, quite often (60% of attempts actually), keyboard does
> not work in VNC at all. It seems to be a QEMU/VNC issue as
> minimizing/maximizing the VNC window helps in 80% cases - have you seen this?

No, I haven't experienced this. But I've already heard of VNC keyboard
issues in the past, especially when the server is located far away and
there is a network lag inbetween (see
https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1502884 for example) ... maybe
you're suffering from such a problem? Maybe try a different VNC client?
Do you also have got problems when the guest has finally booted the
Linux kernel?

 Thomas