freebsd-skq/sys/conf/options.powerpc
jhibbits 40c4c3de40 Create a new MACHINE_ARCH for Freescale PowerPC e500v2
Summary:
The Freescale e500v2 PowerPC core does not use a standard FPU.
Instead, it uses a Signal Processing Engine (SPE)--a DSP-style vector processor
unit, which doubles as a FPU.  The PowerPC SPE ABI is incompatible with the
stock powerpc ABI, so a new MACHINE_ARCH was created to deal with this.
Additionaly, the SPE opcodes overlap with Altivec, so these are mutually
exclusive.  Taking advantage of this fact, a new file, powerpc/booke/spe.c, was
created with the same function set as in powerpc/powerpc/altivec.c, so it
becomes effectively a drop-in replacement.  setjmp/longjmp were modified to save
the upper 32-bits of the now-64-bit GPRs (upper 32-bits are only accessible by
the SPE).

Note: This does _not_ support the SPE in the e500v1, as the e500v1 SPE does not
support double-precision floating point.

Also, without a new MACHINE_ARCH it would be impossible to provide binary
packages which utilize the SPE.

Additionally, no work has been done to support ports, work is needed for this.
This also means no newer gcc can yet be used.  However, gcc's powerpc support
has been refactored which would make adding a powerpcspe-freebsd target very
easy.

Test Plan:
This was lightly tested on a RouterBoard RB800 and an AmigaOne A1222
(P1022-based) board, compiled against the new ABI.  Base system utilities
(/bin/sh, /bin/ls, etc) still function appropriately, the system is able to boot
multiuser.

Reviewed By:	bdrewery, imp
Relnotes:	yes
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5683
2016-10-22 01:57:15 +00:00

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# $FreeBSD$
# Options specific to the powerpc platform kernels
AIM opt_global.h
BOOKE opt_global.h
BOOKE_E500 opt_global.h
BOOKE_PPC4XX opt_global.h
CELL
POWERPC
POWERPC64
POWERPCSPE
FPU_EMU
COMPAT_FREEBSD32 opt_compat.h
GFB_DEBUG opt_gfb.h
GFB_NO_FONT_LOADING opt_gfb.h
GFB_NO_MODE_CHANGE opt_gfb.h
MPC85XX opt_platform.h
POWERMAC opt_platform.h
PS3 opt_platform.h
MAMBO
PSERIES
PSIM
SC_OFWFB opt_ofwfb.h
OFWCONS_POLL_HZ opt_ofw.h
# AGP debugging support
AGP_DEBUG opt_agp.h
MIKROTIK