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This is a preliminary Plan 9 port to the Compulab Trimslice,
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containing a Tegra 2 SoC: a dual-core, (truly) dual-issue 1GHz
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Cortex-A9 v7a-architecture ARM system, *and* it comes in a case. VFP
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3 floating-point hardware is present, but 5l doesn't yet generate
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those instructions. This is the first multiprocessor ARM port we've
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done, and much of the code should be reusable in future ports. There
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are still things to be done but it can run both processors and is
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believed to have adequate kernel support for VFP 3 floating-point.
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What's implemented.
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Two cpus running concurrently with level 1 and 2 caches enabled.
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Realtek 8168 Ethernet. A slightly dimmer 8169. Has to be jabbed with
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an electric cattle prod by software about once per day when it wedges.
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Profiling. Charles Forsyth fixed various bugs to make user-mode
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profiling on ARMs work for the first time ever.
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What's not (yet) implemented.
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USB. It probably just needs initialisation.
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NOR flash.
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Video.
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VFP3 floating point. The go 5l generates VFP 3 floating-point
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instructions (among other changes). Attempts to transplant just that
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code into our 5l failed to generate correct code. Eventually someone
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will get this to work, and then we'll be able to use the hardware
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floating-point. [Eventually someone did, thanks.] Even with only
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software emulation of floating-point, astro runs in under 3 seconds.
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In-line 64-bit arithmetic in 5[cl].
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And the really horrid peripherals: NAND flash and MMC.
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Known problems.
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kprof. kprof profiling doesn't work correctly, charging all CPU time
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to _start.
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Reboot. After an fshalt -r reboot (or two) with cpu1 enabled,
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accesses to pci registers (notably 0x80015000) in the newly-loaded
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kernel often hang. One of three watchdogs' reset should jolt the
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system back to life and force a reboot through u-boot when this
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happens. Sometimes the ethernet goes dead instead ("waiting for
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dhcp..." forever); this could be a different symptom of pci illness.
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Also following a reboot, cpu1's local (not tegra SoC shared) timers
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don't interrupt. Since the local watchdogs don't seem to actually
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interrupt nor generate resets when used in anger (as opposed to
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boot-time check-out), their loss is merely a mystery. The local timer
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not interrupting is more worrying.
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