Make serial ports more robust and reliable. Make non-console ports
work. This might have broken skyeye stuff.
o Introduce ping-pong receive buffers.
o Use DMA to copy characters directly into memory.
o Support baud rates other than 115200
o Use 1 stop bit when 1 stop bit is requested (otherwise 2 were used,
which caused dropped characters when received in bursts).
o Use 1.5 stop bits for 5-bit bytes, and 2 stop bits otherwise when 2
stop bits were requested.
o Actually update line parameters.
o Fix comments
o Move init into attach
o Tweaks to TX interrupt registers to get them reliable and non-storming.
o harvest data in ipend since the latency between it and the callback
was too long. This likely is how it should be, I don't know why I deferred
things to the callback before.
o disable all interrupts in console init. We don't want interrupts until
we turn on an ISR.
o cosmetic tweaks
o Automatically detect of the TIMEOUT interrupt is supported. If so, use
it so we get better CPU utilization. Otherwise do a character at a time
RX. Good news here is that it seems we have enough CPU and low enough
fast interrupt latency to do this reliably.
o Don't read USART_CR. It is a write-only register.
o start to implement bus_ioctl. Do BAUD now...
number of banks, rows and columns the SDRAMC is programmed to access
to determine the RAM size for the board, rather than hard-wiring it to
be 32MB. My company's board with 64MB now probes correctly, as does
the KB9202 with only 32MB. This means that to detect the right memory
size, our boot loader must correctly initialize these values. This is
a fairly safe assumption because the boot loader has to initialize
SDRAM already, and it isn't really possible to change this register
after we've accessed SDRAM.
The boot loader is supposed to leave this bit set to the right value
for the board. If this bit was set at attach time, use it to init the
config register correctly.
Note: this means the boot loader has to properly initialize it.
Add a new option, SKYEYE_WORKAROUNDS, which as the name suggests adds
workarounds for things skyeye doesn't simulate. Specifically :
- Use USART0 instead of DBGU as the console, make it not use DMA, and manually provoke an interrupt when we're done in the transmit function.
- Skyeye maintains an internal counter for clock, but apparently there's
no way to access it, so hack the timecounter code to return a value which
is increased at every clock interrupts. This is gross, but I didn't find a
better way to implement timecounters without hacking Skyeye to get the
counter value.
- Force the write-back of PTEs once we're done writing them, even if they
are supposed to be write-through. I don't know why I have to do that.
the wire. This increases the speed considerably. Start to put
infrastructure in place to do RX side, but that requires more study
before it can be done.
Add bus attachment for the ohci device on this chip. The bus and hub
are detected correctly, but the children devices aren't detected
correctly for reasons unknown.
o update TODO list
o Better use of busdma
o mark RX dtors as COHERENT. This helps performance a lot by not requiring
so many EXPENSIVE cache flushes. The cost of accessing it non-cached
is much smaller.
o Copy data from Rx buffers to make IP header 4 byte aligned.
o CRC length included in reported length, so cope
o Don't free TX buffer twice
o Manage TX buffers better.
o Enable just the interrupts we want.
o Manage OACTIVE better
# Some of these done by cognet
# These changes let us get to # via NFS root.
o Add memory barrier to bus space
o Allow for up to 3 IRQs per device
o Move to table driven population of children devices.
o Add support for usb ohci memory mapped controller resource allocation.
o Clean up a bunch of extra writes to disable interrupts that are now
done elsewhere.
o Force all system interrupt handlers be fast. We get deadlock if they
aren't.
o Disable all interrupts that the ST can generate until we have an ISR
to service them.
o Correct clock calculation to make DELAY the right length...
Submitted by: cognet (#2)
hack where it assumes the first field of the driver softc is the struct
ifnet, and it copies its value in mii_phy_probe().
- In the interrupt handler, set the mbuf m_len field on packet receive.
is a ARM920T based CPU with a bunch of built-in peripherals. The
inital import supports the SPI bus, the TWI bus (although iicbus
integration is not complete), the uarts, the system timer and the
onboard ethernet. Support for the Kwikbyte KB9202
(http://www.kwikbyte.com) board is also included, although there's no
reason why the 9200 and the 9201 wouldn't also work. Primitive
support for running under the skyeye emulator is also provided
(although skyeye's support for the AT91RM9200 is a little weak).
The code has been structured so that other members of Atmel's arm family can
be supported in the future. The AT91SAM9260 is not presently supported
due to lack of hardware. The arm7tdmi families are also not supported
becasue they lack an MMU.
Many thanks to cognet@ for his help and assistance in bringing up this
board. He did much of the vm work and wrote parts of the uart and
system timer code as well as the bus space implementation.
The system boots to single user w/o problem, although the serial
console is a little slow and the ethernet driver is still in flux.
This work was sponsored by Timing Solutions, Corporation. I am
grateful to their support of the FreeBSD project in this manner.
