The nanoseconds extension returned wrong values on secondary processors
since some of the global timer registeres are banked. Use global
variables instead.
Guest systems in paravirtualization environments run usually in user
mode. Thus it is not possible to directly access the PSR and TBR
registers. Use functions instead of inline assembler to access these
registers if RTEMS_PARAVIRT is defined.
The last optimization missed was incorrect in regards to
PSR write instruction delay must be 3 instructions.
New optimizations:
* align to 32-byte cache line.
* rearrange code into three "blocks" of 4 instructions that
is executed by syscall 2 and 3. This is to optimize for
16/32 byte cache lines.
* use delay-slot instruction in trap table to reduce by one
instruction.
* use the fact that "wr %PSR" implements XOR to reduce by
one instruction.
The following BSPs do not have tick support so the tests fail:
arm1136jfs
arm1136js
arm7tdmi
arm920
armcortexa9 (does not run any more)
avrtest
h8sim
h8sxsim
m32csim
m32rsim
moxiesim
simsh1
simsh2
simsh4
v850e1sim
v850e2sim
v850e2v3sim
v850esim
v850essim
v850sim
This list was provided by Joel in the following post:
http://www.rtems.org/pipermail/rtems-devel/2014-April/006526.html
Switch to the standard ARM startup code. This requires adding the
standard interrupt code. The interrupt code does nothing at this
point in time. I do not know if the ARM simulator in GDB supports
interrupts.
The syscall functions overlapped with RTEMS, for example _write, _read, etc.
Change these to be internal to the BSP and avoid any clash with names in
RTEMS. Add support for SWI_Write0.
Change the console driver to use SWI_Write0. This outputs the character
to the host's stdout. Writing to file name 0 is not captured and managed
by GDB's simulation code while the SWI_Write0 is. The managed stdout
data is encapulated in the MI protocol while writes to file handle 0 are
dropped by GDB when in MI mode.
The exit SPARC system call doesn't have a function entry
point like the others do. This is probably why people use
TA 0x0 instruction directly for shutting down the system.
Use __bss_start available via %g2 to clear the BSS section. The usage
of _edata resulted in a copy of [_edata, __bss_start) from ROM to RAM
and then a clear to zero of this area.
Clear now only [__bss_start, _end).
Use the register %g4 for the data content since it must be an even
numbered register due to the std/ldd. Use the register %g2 for the BSS
start address, so that it can be later re-used for the BSS zero loop.
