Add a simple Termios console driver using a table for statically
registered devices used in console_initialize() and dynamic installation
via console_device_install().
This change starts with removing the effectively empty file
timerdrv.h. The prototypes for benchmark_timer_XXX() were in
btimer.h which was not universally used. Thus every use of
timerdrv.h had to be changed to btimer.h. Then the prototypes
for benchmark_timer_read() had to be adjusted to return
benchmark_timer_t rather than int or uint32_t.
I took this opportunity to also correct the file headers to
separate the copyright from the file description comments which
is needed to ensure the copyright isn't propagated into Doxygen
output.
Add and use _CPU_SMP_Start_processor(). Add and use
_CPU_SMP_Finalize_initialization(). This makes most
_CPU_SMP_Initialize() functions a bit simpler since we can calculate the
minimum value of the count of processors requested by the application
configuration and the count of physically or virtually available
processors in the high-level code.
The CPU port has now the ability to signal a processor start failure.
With the support for clustered/partitioned scheduling the presence of
particular processors can be configured to be optional or mandatory.
There will be a fatal error only in case mandatory processors are not
present.
The CPU port may use a timeout to monitor the start of a processor.
A new option RTEMS_INTERRUPT_REPLACE is introduced that permits updating
the first interrupt handler for the registered interrupt vector and
matching argument. If no match is found, the install function fails
with RTEMS_UNSATISFIED.
The Interrupt Manager Extension offers interrupt handlers with an
argument pointer. It is impossible to update two words (handler and
argument) atomically on most architectures. In order to avoid an SMP
lock in bsp_interrupt_handler_dispatch() which would degrade the
interrupt response time an alternative must be provided that makes it
possible to tear-down interrupt sources without an SMP lock.
Add RTEMS_INTERRUPT_REPLACE option to Interrupt Manager Extension. This
enables a clean tear-down of interrupt sources on SMP configurations.
Instead of an interrupt handler removal a replacement handler can be
installed to silence an interrupt source. This can be used in contexts
that allow no sophisticated synchronization (e.g. in atexit() or fatal
handlers).
Since the per-CPU SMP lock must be acquired and released to send the
message a single interrupt broadcast operations offers no benefits. If
synchronization is required, then a SMP barrier must be used anyway.
Merge RTEMS_FATAL_SOURCE_BSP_GENERIC and RTEMS_FATAL_SOURCE_BSP_SPECIFIC
into new fatal source RTEMS_FATAL_SOURCE_BSP. This makes it easier to
figure out the code position given a fatal source and code.
Instead of SPRG0 (= special purpose register 272) use the new global
symbol _PPC_INTERRUPT_DISABLE_MASK to store the interrupt disable mask.
The benefit is that it is now possible to disable interrupts without
further run-time initialization in boot_card().
At least on Freescale e500 cores this leads also to a faster execution
since the mfmsr and mfspr instruction require four cycles to complete.
The instructions to load the mask value can execute while the mfmsr is
in progress.
Add a CPU counter interface to allow access to a free-running counter.
It is useful to measure short time intervals. This can be used for
example to enable profiling of critical low-level functions.
Add two busy wait functions rtems_counter_delay_ticks() and
rtems_counter_delay_nanoseconds() implemented via the CPU counter.
The readv() and writev() support was implemented in terms of multiple
calls to the read and write handlers. This imposes a problem on device
files which use an IO vector as single request entity. For example a
low-level network device (e.g. BPF(4)) may use an IO vector to create
one frame from multiple protocol layers each with its own IO vector
entry.
This patch refactors a lot of the existing doxygen within libbsp/arm/lpc32xx.
Much of this refactoring was just renaming of existing groups to conform to a
more consistent naming structure. With the addition of a doxygen header for
tm27.h, all files within lpc32xx belong to doxygen group now. lpc32xx should
be used a reference for adding doxygen to other bsps.
Add support for MMU initialization for RaspberryPi. Introduce new shared
MMU configuration table that can be used by other BSPs that call the
arm_cp15_start_setup_translation_table_and_enable_mmu_and_cache function.
Demonstrate the use of the generic table with RaspberryPi.
pc386 set CLOCK_DRIVER_ISRS_PER_TICK to a
string rather than a numeric value. Add
CLOCK_DRIVER_ISRS_PER_TICK_VALUE and
other clean up on the clock driver.
Move implementation specific parts of object.h and object.inl into new
header file objectimpl.h. The object.h contains now only the
application visible API.
Add and use _SMP_Get_current_processor() and
rtems_smp_get_current_processor().
Delete bsp_smp_interrupt_cpu().
Change type of current processor index from int to uint32_t to match
_SMP_Processor_count type.
