Cummulative patch of changes that are not vendor-specific:
- ARMv6 and ARMv7 architecture support
- ARM SMP support
- VFP/Neon support
- ARM Generic Interrupt Controller driver
- Simplification of startup code for all platforms
FDT-enabled targets were broken after r238043 that relies
on device up the hierarchy to properly setup interrupt.
nexus device for ARM platforms did job only partially:
setting handler but not unmasking interrupt. Unmasking
was performed by platform code.
Reviewed by: andrew@
structure with the first 4 registers to allow a wider range of boot
loaders to work. Future commits will make use of this to centralize
support for the different loaders.
used in the code which needs to implement some specific
behaviour when being run under QEMU.
- Make PXA UART probe code to work under QEMU gumstix, which
doesn't emulate all the ports properly.
- Modules and kernel code alike may use DPCPU_DEFINE(),
DPCPU_GET(), DPCPU_SET(), etc. akin to the statically defined
PCPU_*. Requires only one extra instruction more than PCPU_* and is
virtually the same as __thread for builtin and much faster for shared
objects. DPCPU variables can be initialized when defined.
- Modules are supported by relocating the module's per-cpu linker set
over space reserved in the kernel. Modules may fail to load if there
is insufficient space available.
- Track space available for modules with a one-off extent allocator.
Free may block for memory to allocate space for an extent.
Reviewed by: jhb, rwatson, kan, sam, grehan, marius, marcel, stas
the implementation can guarantee forward progress in the event of
a stuck interrupt or interrupt storm. This is especially critical
for fast interrupt handlers, as they can cause a hard hang in that
case. When first called, arm_get_next_irq() is passed -1.
Obtained from: Juniper Networks, Inc.
boards. This is enough to net-boot to multiuser.
Also supported is the SMSC LAN91C111 parts used on the netCF, netDUO and netMMC
add-on boards.
I'll be putting some instructions on how to boot this on the Gumstix boards
online soon.
This is still fairly rough and will be refined over time but I felt it was
better to get this out there where other people can help out.
