u-boot.git/arch/arc/lib, branch v2015.04

arc: fix separate compilation of start.o

2015-04-10T16:22:40+00:00

While testing "arc: make sure _start is in the beginning of .text
section" I haven't done proper clean-up of built binaries and so missed
another tiny bit that lead to the following error:
 --->8---
    LD      u-boot
 arc-linux-ld.bfd: cannot find arch/arc/lib/start.o
 Makefile:1107: recipe for target 'u-boot' failed
 make: *** [u-boot] Error 1
 --->8---

Fix is trivial: put "start.o" in "extra-y".

Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin

arc: make sure _start is in the beginning of .text section

2015-04-10T15:45:34+00:00

This is important to have entry point in the beginning of .text section
because it allows simple loading and execution of U-Boot.

For example pre-bootloader loads U-Boot in memory starting from offset
0x81000000 and then just jumps to the same address.

Otherwise pre-bootloader would need to find-out where entry-point is. In
its turn if it deals with binary image of U-Boot there's no way for
pre-bootloader to get required value.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin

arc: add support for SLC (System Level Cache, AKA L2-cache)

2015-04-03T06:47:50+00:00

ARCv2 cores may have built-in SLC (System Level Cache, AKA L2-cache).
This change adds functions required for controlling SLC:
 * slc_enable/disable
 * slc_flush/invalidate

For now we just disable SLC to escape DMA coherency issues until either:
 * SLC flush/invalidate is supported in DMA APIin U-Boot
 * hardware DMA coherency is implemented (that might be board specific
   so probably we'll need to have a separate Kconfig option for
   controlling SLC explicitly)

Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin

arc: get rid of CONFIG_SYS_GENERIC_GLOBAL_DATA

2015-04-03T06:47:49+00:00

As discussed on mailing list we're drifting away from
CONFIG_SYS_GENERIC_GLOBAL_DATA in favour to use of board_init_f_mem()
for global data.

So do this for ARC architecture.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin

arc: clean-up init procedure

2015-04-03T06:47:49+00:00

Intention behind this work was elimination of as much assembly-written
code as it is possible.

In case of ARC we already have relocation fix-up implemented in C so why
don't we use C for U-Boot copying, .bss zeroing etc.

It turned out x86 uses pretty similar approach so we re-used parts of
code in "board_f.c" initially implemented for x86.

Now assembly usage during init is limited to stack- and frame-pointer
setup before and after relocation.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin 
Cc: Simon Glass

arc: move low-level interrupt and exception handlers in a separate file

2015-04-03T06:47:49+00:00

This separation makes maintenance of code easier because those low-level
interrupt- or exception handling routines are pretty static and usually
require not much care while start-up code is a subject of modifications
and enhancements.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin

arc: merge common start-up code between ARC and ARCv2

2015-04-03T06:47:49+00:00

Even though ARCompact and ARCv2 are not binary compatible most of
assembly instructions are used in both. With this change we'll get rid
of duplicate code.

Still IVTs are implemented differently so we're keeping them in separate
files.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin

arc: cache - build invalidate_icache_all() and invalidate_dcache_all()

2015-04-03T06:47:49+00:00

always

Make both invalidate_icache_all() and invalidate_dcache_all() available
even if U-Boot is configured with CONFIG_SYS_DCACHE_OFF and/or
CONFIG_SYS_ICACHE_OFF.

This is useful because configuration of U-Boot may not match actual
hardware features. Real board may have cache(s) but for some reason we
may want to run U-Boot with cache(s) disabled (for example if some
peripherals work improperly with existing drivers if data cache is
enabled). So board may start with cache(s) enabled (that's the case for
ARC cores with built-in caches) but early in U-Boot we disable cache(s)
and make sure all contents of data cache gets flushed in RAM.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin

arc: build libgcc in U-Boot

2015-02-09T13:41:20+00:00

This way we may have very limited set of functions implemented so we
save some space.

Also it allows us to build U-Boot for any ARC core with the same one
toolchain because we don't rely on pre-built libgcc.

For example:
 * we may use little-endian toolchain but build U-Boot for ether
endianess
 * we may use non-multilibbed uClibc toolchain but build U-Boot for
whatever ARC CPU flavour that current GCC supports

Private libgcc built from generic C implementation contributes only 144
bytes to .text section so we don't see significant degradation of size:
--->8---
$ arc-linux-size u-boot.libgcc-prebuilt
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
 222217	  24912	 214820	 461949	  70c7d	u-boot.libgcc-prebuilt

$ arc-linux-size u-boot.libgcc-private
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
 222361	  24912	 214820	 462093	  70d0d	u-boot.libgcc-private
--->8---

Also I don't notice visible performance degradation compared to
pre-built libgcc (where at least "*div*" functions are had-written in
assembly) on typical operations of downloading 10Mb uImage over TFTP and
bootm.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin

arc: select cache settings via menuconfig

2015-02-09T13:41:20+00:00

This change allows to keep board description clean and minimalistic.
This is especially helpful if one board may house different CPUs with
different features.

It is applicable to both FPGA-based boards or those that have CPUs
mounted on interchnagable daughter-boards.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin