coreboot-kgpe-d16/Documentation/arch/riscv/index.md

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# RISC-V architecture documentation
This section contains documentation about coreboot on RISC-V architecture.
## Mode usage
All stages run in M mode.
Payloads have a choice of managing M mode activity: they can control
everything or nothing.
Payloads run from the romstage (i.e. rampayloads) are started in M mode.
The payload must, for example, prepare and install its own SBI.
Payloads run from the ramstage are started in S mode, and trap delegation
will have been done. These payloads rely on the SBI and can not replace it.
## Stage handoff protocol
On entry to a stage or payload,
* all harts are running.
* A0 is the hart ID.
* A1 is the pointer to the Flattened Device Tree (FDT).
## Additional payload handoff requirements
The location of cbmem should be placed in a node in the FDT.
## Trap delegation
Traps are delegated in the ramstage.
## SMP within a stage
At the beginning of each stage, all harts save 0 are spinning in a loop on
a semaphore. At the end of the stage harts 1..max are released by changing
the semaphore.
A possible way to do this is to have a pointer to a struct containing
variables, e.g.
```c
struct blocker {
void (*fn)(); // never returns
}
```
The hart blocks until fn is non-null, and then calls it. If fn returns, we
will panic if possible, but behavior is largely undefined.
Only hart 0 runs through most of the code in each stage.