[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/6] PPC 85xx: Detect e500v2 / e500mc during runtime
Scott Wood
scottwood at freescale.com
Fri Feb 7 17:54:36 CET 2014
On Fri, 2014-02-07 at 12:52 +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
> On 07.02.2014, at 01:51, Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2014-02-06 at 12:40 +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
> >> On 04.02.2014, at 02:59, Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Fri, 2014-01-31 at 12:16 +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
> >>>> With the qemu-ppce500 machine type we can run the same board with
> >>>> either an e500v2 or an e500mc core plugged in.
> >>>>
> >>>> This means that the IVOR setup can't be based on compile time decisions,
> >>>> so instead we have to do a runtime check which CPU generation we're
> >>>> running on.
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de>
> >>>> ---
> >>>> arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/fixed_ivor.S | 21 ++++++++++++++++-----
> >>>> 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >>>>
> >>>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/fixed_ivor.S b/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/fixed_ivor.S
> >>>> index ebbb8c0..635a97e 100644
> >>>> --- a/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/fixed_ivor.S
> >>>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/fixed_ivor.S
> >>>> @@ -36,17 +36,25 @@
> >>>> SET_IVOR(14, 0x1e0) /* Instruction TLB Error */
> >>>> SET_IVOR(15, 0x040) /* Debug */
> >>>>
> >>>> -/* e500v1 & e500v2 only */
> >>>> -#ifndef CONFIG_E500MC
> >>>> + /* Check for CPU */
> >>>> + mfpvr r3
> >>>> + srwi r3, r3, 16
> >>>> + /* Compare with e500mc PVR major number */
> >>>> + li r4, 0
> >>>> + ori r4, r4, 0x8023
> >>>> + cmpw r3, r4
> >>>> +
> >>>> + /* e500v1 & e500v2 only */
> >>>> + bge 1f
> >>>> SET_IVOR(32, 0x200) /* SPE Unavailable */
> >>>> SET_IVOR(33, 0x220) /* Embedded FP Data */
> >>>> SET_IVOR(34, 0x240) /* Embedded FP Round */
> >>>> -#endif
> >>>> +1:
> >>>>
> >>>> SET_IVOR(35, 0x260) /* Performance monitor */
> >>>>
> >>>> -/* e500mc only */
> >>>> -#ifdef CONFIG_E500MC
> >>>> + /* e500mc only */
> >>>> + blt 2f
> >>>> SET_IVOR(36, 0x280) /* Processor doorbell */
> >>>> SET_IVOR(37, 0x2a0) /* Processor doorbell critical */
> >>>> SET_IVOR(38, 0x2c0) /* Guest Processor doorbell */
> >>>> @@ -54,6 +62,8 @@
> >>>> SET_IVOR(40, 0x300) /* Hypervisor system call */
> >>>> SET_IVOR(41, 0x320) /* Hypervisor Priviledge */
> >>>>
> >>>> +#ifndef CONFIG_QEMU_E500
> >>>> + /* QEMU guests runs in guest mode and can't access GIVORs */
> >>>> SET_GIVOR(2, 0x060) /* Guest Data Storage */
> >>>> SET_GIVOR(3, 0x080) /* Guest Instruction Storage */
> >>>> SET_GIVOR(4, 0x0a0) /* Guest External Input */
> >>>> @@ -61,3 +71,4 @@
> >>>> SET_GIVOR(13, 0x1c0) /* Guest Data TLB Error */
> >>>> SET_GIVOR(14, 0x1e0) /* Guest Instruction TLB Error */
> >>>> #endif
> >>>> +2:
> >>>
> >>> Again, let's please just remove this entire file.
> >>
> >> I can remove it, but it's a pretty drastic change from the original
> >> behavior that was introduced 4 1/2 years ago:
> >>
> >> http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2009-August/058670.html
> >>
> >> I assume the idea was to give OSs one thing less to worry about (IVOR
> >> setting). If any OS in between 2009 and now relied on that fact, we'll
> >> break it by removing this code.
> >
> > Any such OS would already be broken on pre-2009 U-Boot. Linux doesn't
> > rely on it. Neither the code nor the commit message gives a sufficient
> > rationale, and Kumar didn't answer when asked. It's incomplete (doesn't
> > include e6500 IVORs). It doesn't work on e6500 secondary threads. The
>
> I thought e6500 has hard coded IVORs which is the whole point of this exercise? Or am I wrong there?
e6500 does not have fixed interrupt vector offsets. I think IBM book3e
chips do, and IVORs are phased out in the architecture.
-Scott
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