XENMOU Specification

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Last updated: Oct 14, 2015
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XenMou is a PCI device which may be present at any BDF in the system.

The Xen PCI Vendor ID 5853 and Device ID C110 will be assigned for this
device.  It will be an Input Device Class, Mouse Subclass (0x0902).

It contains 1 BAR:

BAR0 is non prefetchable memory of 8k+ bytes (2+ pages) 
	containgin MMIO registers and mouse event data.

The device can also generate an interrupt.

Registers:

Global Registers (Range 0x00000 - 0x00FFF)

The global registers control features of the xenmou adapter that
reflect the entire device.

0x00000 - XMOU_MAGIC:
  Magic number. This register always reads 0x584D4F55
  
  Type: Read-Only

0x00004 - XMOU_REV:
  Revision number. This register reads 0x1 for this revision.
  
  Type: Read-Only

0x00100 - XMOU_CONTROL:
  Control register to change backend settings.
  
  Bit 0:  XMOU_EN Set to enable the xenmou device.
  Bit 1:  INT_EN  Global bit to enable interrupts from the device.
  Bits 2 - 31: Unused.
  
  Type: Read-Write
  
0x00104 - XMOU_EVENT_SIZE:
  Size in bytes of the individual event data structures in the event register
  range.
  
  Type: Read-Only
  
0x00108 - XMOU_EVENT_NPAGES:
  Number of pages that make up the the event register range.
  
  Type: Read-Only
  
0x0010C - XMOU_ACCELERATION:
  Acceleration scalar factor ranging from 1 to 20. The value for the default
  mouse speed is 10.
  
  Type: Write-Only
  
0x000110 - XMOU_ISR:
  Interrupt status register. Write to dismiss interrupt.
  
  Bit 0:   INT  Indicates if this device is currently generating an interrupt.
  Bits 1 - 31: Unused.
  
  Type: Read-Only


Event Registers (Range 0x01000 - 0x0nFFF)

The event registers occupy XMOU_EVENT_NPAGES pages of 4096 bytes.  There are
(PAGE_SIZE/XMOU_EVENT_SIZE - 1) individual event data structures per page. 
The individual event data structures are each XMOU_EVENT_SIZE bits in size
(XMOU_EVENT_SIZE is always 64 or greater bits).  The first event data
structure on the first page is unique in that it holds the read and write
pointer indexing into the other event data structures.

0x01000 - XMOU_READ_PTR:
  Current read offset index to the next event data structures to read (in 
  XMOU_EVENT_SIZE units).
  
  Type: Read-Write
  
0x01004 - XMOU_WRITE_PTR:
  Current write offset index to the event data structures one beyond the last
  one written to (in XMOU_EVENT_SIZE units).
  
  Type: Read-Only
  
The event registers data structures starting at (0x01000 + XMOU_EVENT_SIZE)
form a logical ring spanning XMOU_EVENT_NPAGES pages.  The offset pointers
above are indices into the ring.  If the write pointer is less than the read
pointer then the ring has wrapped.  When the read pointer is not equal to the
write pointer, there are events to read.  The pointers being equal always
means there are no events to read, that is read == write never means that
the ring is full with (PAGE_SIZE/XMOU_EVENT_SIZE - 1) events.  A full ring
will have a maximum of (PAGE_SIZE/XMOU_EVENT_SIZE - 2) events in it.  The 
ring may wrap at this point, controlled by the underlying virtual HW.  When
events have been consumed, the xenmou driver software moves the read pointer
forward up to the write pointer.  Driver software never moves the write
pointer.

Each of the event registers is formatted in the following manner, starting
with the first event register:

0x01000 + (XMOU_EVENT_SIZE) - XMOU_FLAG_REV_FIELD:
  This 32 bit field contains 16 bits of flags indicating what type of mouse
  event is being reported. The second 16 bits report the revision ID of the
  individual structure that is always <= XMOU_REV.
  
  The FENCE flag will be set to indicate a fence event that conveys no data
  but indicates all events following the last event occured contemperaneously.
  This holds to for single events as well as groups of events.
  
  Bit 0:  ABSOLUTE Absolute mouse movement event.
  Bit 1:  RELATIVE Relative mouse movement event.
  Bit 2:  FENCE Fence event.
  Bit 3:  LEFT_BUTTON_DOWN
  Bit 4:  LEFT_BUTTON_UP
  Bit 5:  RIGHT_BUTTON_DOWN
  Bit 6:  RIGHT_BUTTON_UP
  Bit 7:  MIDDLE_BUTTON_DOWN
  Bit 8:  MIDDLE_BUTTON_UP
  Bit 9:  HWHEEL Horizontal wheel movement event.
  Bit 10:  VWHEEL Vertical wheel movement event.
  Bits 11 - 15: Unused.
  Bits 16 - 31: Unsigned short values specifying the revision number.
  
0x01000 + (XMOU_EVENT_SIZE + 4) - XMOU_DATA_FIELD:
  This 32 bit field contains data associated with a given mouse event.
  
  For ABSOLUTE the field contains two 16b values:
    Bits 0 - 15:  X absolute co-ordinate between 0 and 65535
    Bits 16 - 31: Y absolute co-ordinate between 0 and 65535
    
  For RELATIVE the field contains two 16b values:
    Bits 0 - 15:  X relative motion between -32768 and +32767
    Bits 16 - 31: Y relative motion between -32768 and +32767
    
  For HWHEEL and VWHEEL the field is a single 32b field with wheel data.
  
  Type: Read-Only

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