Reviewed arch/aarch64/{apic,arch,timer,interrupts}.c and
arch/riscv64/{apic,plic,arch,interrupts,timer}.c for the same class of
QEMU-virt-vs-real-hardware assumption §III item 6's amd64 audit looked for.
Report only, per this project's "identify, don't fix unless asked" rule --
no source files changed.
Findings, aarch64:
- Severe, confirmed live: apic.c's GICD/GICC base addresses are hardcoded
QEMU-virt constants, self-documented as a deliberate exception because
QEMU's aarch64 firmware never forwards a DTB. That premise no longer
holds -- the native Pi 5 boot path (item 2) receives a real DTB and
calls the same, unmodified kernel_main(), whose M4 sequence calls
apic_init(boot_info) unconditionally (kernel_main.c:413); apic_init()
still ignores boot_info entirely. Real BCM2712 GIC-400 is at
0x10_7fff9000, confirmed against bcm2712.dtsi -- a different region of
the address space entirely from the hardcoded 0x08000000. With the MMU
off at this point in boot, this blocks reaching ok> on real hardware as
the code stands.
- Doc-only correction: interrupts.c's own comment claims VBAR_EL2 is never
installed ("a known gap"). Checked against isr.S and found stale -- the
actual implementation already branches on aarch64_current_el() and
installs vbar_el2/vbar_el1 correctly. No functional gap; the comment
describes one the code already closed.
- arch_cold_reset() hardcodes the PSCI conduit to HVC, a QEMU-specific
workaround (QEMU's AAVMF has no genuine EL3). The Pi 5's real ATF means
EL3 firmware exists there, making SMC the conventional real-hardware
conduit -- no runtime detection exists.
Findings, riscv64:
- plic.c's QEMU-virt-hardcoded PLIC_BASE is already tracked (§V.3 item 3);
this pass confirms rather than rediscovers it.
- arch_early_init()'s satp clear is justified entirely by behavior
observed under QEMU's EDK2 firmware; the native boot path (U-Boot+
OpenSBI, no EDK2) doesn't share that observation, though the action is
likely still safe since OpenSBI's handoff conventionally leaves satp=0
already. Lowest-severity finding in the set.
- Clean: the SBI timer path and arch_cold_reset()'s SBI SRST call are both
genuinely hardware-independent -- named as the portable pattern amd64's
i8042-pulse reset and aarch64's hardcoded-HVC PSCI call both lack.
Doc-only change. Three-arch QEMU acceptance (amd64/aarch64/riscv64, in
order) run to confirm non-regression only.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019YcT3H2PQeyujrzjqS3Var
