[U-Boot] Instruction WFI gives error at build time.

[Aneesh V]

Hi Sandeep,

On Thursday 22 September 2011 02:47 PM, Sandeep Kumar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
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> I am adding support for a MPcore SoC in Uboot. For that secondary cores
> need to execute WFI (wait for interrupt) instruction.
> 
> But while building the source I am getting the following error:
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> arm-none-eabi-gcc   -D__ASSEMBLY__ -g  -Os   -fno-common -ffixed-r8
> -msoft-float  -D__KERNEL__ -DCONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE=0x60800000
> -I/media/disk/work/u-boot_ct11mpc_osi_evs/include -fno-builtin
> -ffreestanding -nostdinc -isystem
> /home/sandeepk/CodeSourcery/Sourcery_G++_Lite/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-none-ea
> bi/4.5.2/include -pipe  -DCONFIG_ARM -D__ARM__ -marm  -mabi=aapcs-linux
> -mno-thumb-interwork -march=armv5   -o lowlevel_init.o lowlevel_init.S
> -c
> 
> lowlevel_init.S: Assembler messages:
> 
> lowlevel_init.S:92: Error: missing expression -- `swi'

Are you trying to use WFI or SWI?

> 
> make[1]: *** [lowlevel_init.o] Error 1
> 
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/media/disk/work/u-boot_ct11mpc_osi_evs/board/armltd/versatile_11mpc'
> 
> make: *** [board/armltd/versatile_11mpc/libversatile_11mpc.o] Error 2
> 
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> 
> How can I implement this instruction or how can I directly insert the
> hex code for this instruction.

A '.word' directive with the hex value of the instruction should work.
See this:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/88649/focus=88667

br,
Aneesh


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> Regards,
> 
> Sandeep
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