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.
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Signed-off-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/171338
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@chromium.org>
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(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)
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