Transition all boards that support arm cortex CPUs to armv7. This
leaves two armv6 kernels in the tree. RPI-B, which uses the BCM2835
which has a ARM1176 core, and VERSATILEPB, which is a qemu board setup
around the time RPI-B went in. Copy std.armv6 to std.armv7, even
though that duplicates a lot of stuff. More work needs to be done to
sort out the duplication.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12027
- Use new option SMP_ON_UP instead of (mis)using specific CPU type.
By this, any SMP kernel can be compiled with SMP_ON_UP support.
- Enable runtime detection of CPU multiprocessor extensions only
if SMP_ON_UP option is used. In other cases (pure SMP or UP),
statically compile only required variant.
- Don't leak multiprocessor instructions to UP kernel.
- Correctly handle data cache write back to point of unification.
DCCMVAU is supported on all armv7 cpus.
- For SMP_ON_UP kernels, detect proper TTB flags on runtime.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9133
for later Cortex-A CPUs that support the Multiprocessor Extensions. This
will be needed to support both in a single GENERIC kernel while still
being able to only build for a single SoC.
Reviewed by: mmel
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: ABT Systems Ltd
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8138
Only L2 PIPT cache is supported for __ARM_ARCH >= 6.
In fact, this is just a pure proclamation as this option is used
only in armv4 specific files now.
The Alpine Platform-On-Chip offers multicore processing
(quad ARM Cortex-A15), 1/10Gb Ethernet, SATA 3, PCI-E 3,
DMA engines, Virtualization, Advanced Power Management and other.
This code drop involves basic platform support including:
SMP, IRQs, SerDes, SATA. As of now it is missing the PCIe support.
Part of the functionality is provided by the low-level code (HAL)
delivered by the chip vendor (Annapurna Labs) and is a subject to
change in the future (is planned to be moved to sys/contrib directory).
The review log for this commit is available here:
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2340
Reviewed by: andrew, ian, imp
Obtained from: Semihalf
Sponsored by: Annapurna Labs
