hw/char/pl011: Warn when using disabled receiver

We shouldn't receive characters when the full UART or its
receiver is disabled. However we don't want to break the
possibly incomplete "my first bare metal assembly program"s,
so we choose to simply display a warning when this occurs.

Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Luc Michel <luc.michel@amd.com>
Message-Id: <20250220092903.3726-2-philmd@linaro.org>

diff --git a/hw/char/pl011.c b/hw/char/pl011.c
index 06ce851044d9f9a7d5abf2550851a6af3149b58f..12a2d4bc7bd74195c3ff64ba61e85824be251c97 100644 (file)
--- a/hw/char/pl011.c
+++ b/hw/char/pl011.c
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ DeviceState *pl011_create(hwaddr addr, qemu_irq irq, Chardev *chr)
 #define CR_OUT1     (1 << 12)
 #define CR_RTS      (1 << 11)
 #define CR_DTR      (1 << 10)
+#define CR_RXE      (1 << 9)
 #define CR_TXE      (1 << 8)
 #define CR_LBE      (1 << 7)
 #define CR_UARTEN   (1 << 0)
@@ -487,6 +488,14 @@ static int pl011_can_receive(void *opaque)
     PL011State *s = (PL011State *)opaque;
     int r;
 
+    if (!(s->cr & CR_UARTEN)) {
+        qemu_log_mask(LOG_GUEST_ERROR,
+                      "PL011 receiving data on disabled UART\n");
+    }
+    if (!(s->cr & CR_RXE)) {
+        qemu_log_mask(LOG_GUEST_ERROR,
+                      "PL011 receiving data on disabled RX UART\n");
+    }
     r = s->read_count < pl011_get_fifo_depth(s);
     trace_pl011_can_receive(s->lcr, s->read_count, r);
     return r;