There are ARM systems which are essentially heterogeneous multicores where
some cores implement a different ARM architecture version than other cores. A
specific example is the tegra124 which boots on an ARMv4 coprocessor while
most code, including most of the firmware, runs on the main ARMv7 core. To
support SOCs like this, the plan is to generalize the ARM architecture so that
all versions are available, and an SOC/CPU can then select what architecture
variant should be used for each component of the firmware; bootblock,
romstage, and ramstage.
Old-Change-Id: I22e048c3bc72bd56371e14200942e436c1e312c2
Signed-off-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/171338
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@chromium.org>
Commit-Queue: Gabe Black <gabeblack@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@chromium.org>
(cherry picked from commit 8423a41529da0ff67fb9873be1e2beb30b09ae2d)
Signed-off-by: Isaac Christensen <isaac.christensen@se-eng.com>
ARM: Split out ARMv7 code and make it possible to have other arch versions.
We don't always want to use ARMv7 code when building for ARM, so we should
separate out the ARMv7 code so it can be excluded, and also make it possible
to include code for some other version of the architecture instead, all per
build component for cases where we need more than one architecture version
at a time.
The tegra124 bootblock will ultimately need to be ARMv4, but until we have
some ARMv4 code to switch over to we can leave it set to ARMv7.
Old-Change-Id: Ia982c91057fac9c252397b7c866224f103761cc7
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/171400
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@chromium.org>
Commit-Queue: Gabe Black <gabeblack@chromium.org>
(cherry picked from commit 799514e6060aa97acdcf081b5c48f965be134483)
Squashed two related patches for splitting ARM support into general
ARM support and ARMv7 specific pieces.
Change-Id: Ic6511507953a2223c87c55f90252c4a4e1dd6010
Signed-off-by: Isaac Christensen <isaac.christensen@se-eng.com>
Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/6782
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
This patch enhances the armv7 exception handlers in Coreboot and
libpayload to show the correct SP and LR registers from the aborted
context, and also dump a part of the current stack. Since we cannot
access the banked registers of SVC mode from a different exception mode,
it changes Coreboot (and its payloads) to run in System mode instead. As
both modes can execute all privileged instructions, this should not have
any noticeable effect on firmware operation (please correct me if I'm
wrong!).
Change-Id: I0e04f47619e55308f7da4a3a99c9cae6ae35cc30
Signed-off-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/170045
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Palatin <vpalatin@chromium.org>
(cherry picked from commit d0db2f5e938200e3f5899c5e1f1606ab2dd5b334)
Signed-off-by: Isaac Christensen <isaac.christensen@se-eng.com>
Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/6538
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
Reviewed-by: Ronald G. Minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
This is previously used exception code from libpayload.
On startup it installs and then tests an exception handler.
The test is an unaligned memory operation.
Yes, we've seen what might be exceptions in the ramstage, and
it makes sense to handle them. This code is identical in structure
and operation to the previously committed payload exception handler,
though we reserve the right to change it as circumstances require.
The remaining question is whether we need it in romstage.
Change-Id: I24484686c33c9757af8ba171ebae9773828fb69d
Signed-off-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ronald G. Minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/2614
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
Reviewed-by: David Hendricks <dhendrix@chromium.org>
