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author | Macpaul Lin | 2011-10-19 15:41:11 -0500 |
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committer | Wolfgang Denk | 2011-10-21 17:54:45 -0500 |
commit | afc1ce82885698c61946c0cab99aac3547ef78ea (patch) | |
tree | 89877d371b31068ff89546f85e628939ff6da41f /README | |
parent | 5f1719c1054282a0e11430956aa0b72009d0aab8 (diff) | |
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doc/README: documents and readme for NDS32 arch
Documents and READMEs for NDS32 architecture.
It patch also provides usage of SoC AG101 and board ADP-AG101.
Signed-off-by: Macpaul Lin <macpaul@andestech.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
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1 files changed, 21 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -183,6 +183,10 @@ Directory Hierarchy: | |||
183 | /mips32 Files specific to MIPS32 CPUs | 183 | /mips32 Files specific to MIPS32 CPUs |
184 | /xburst Files specific to Ingenic XBurst CPUs | 184 | /xburst Files specific to Ingenic XBurst CPUs |
185 | /lib Architecture specific library files | 185 | /lib Architecture specific library files |
186 | /nds32 Files generic to NDS32 architecture | ||
187 | /cpu CPU specific files | ||
188 | /n1213 Files specific to Andes Technology N1213 CPUs | ||
189 | /lib Architecture specific library files | ||
186 | /nios2 Files generic to Altera NIOS2 architecture | 190 | /nios2 Files generic to Altera NIOS2 architecture |
187 | /cpu CPU specific files | 191 | /cpu CPU specific files |
188 | /lib Architecture specific library files | 192 | /lib Architecture specific library files |
@@ -3156,7 +3160,7 @@ Low Level (hardware related) configuration options: | |||
3156 | globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEM). | 3160 | globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEM). |
3157 | 3161 | ||
3158 | - CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT | 3162 | - CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT |
3159 | [ARM, MIPS only] If this variable is defined, then certain | 3163 | [ARM, NDS32, MIPS only] If this variable is defined, then certain |
3160 | low level initializations (like setting up the memory | 3164 | low level initializations (like setting up the memory |
3161 | controller) are omitted and/or U-Boot does not | 3165 | controller) are omitted and/or U-Boot does not |
3162 | relocate itself into RAM. | 3166 | relocate itself into RAM. |
@@ -3723,8 +3727,8 @@ details; basically, the header defines the following image properties: | |||
3723 | Currently supported: Linux, NetBSD, VxWorks, QNX, RTEMS, LynxOS, | 3727 | Currently supported: Linux, NetBSD, VxWorks, QNX, RTEMS, LynxOS, |
3724 | INTEGRITY). | 3728 | INTEGRITY). |
3725 | * Target CPU Architecture (Provisions for Alpha, ARM, AVR32, Intel x86, | 3729 | * Target CPU Architecture (Provisions for Alpha, ARM, AVR32, Intel x86, |
3726 | IA64, MIPS, Nios II, PowerPC, IBM S390, SuperH, Sparc, Sparc 64 Bit; | 3730 | IA64, MIPS, NDS32, Nios II, PowerPC, IBM S390, SuperH, Sparc, Sparc 64 Bit; |
3727 | Currently supported: ARM, AVR32, Intel x86, MIPS, Nios II, PowerPC). | 3731 | Currently supported: ARM, AVR32, Intel x86, MIPS, NDS32, Nios II, PowerPC). |
3728 | * Compression Type (uncompressed, gzip, bzip2) | 3732 | * Compression Type (uncompressed, gzip, bzip2) |
3729 | * Load Address | 3733 | * Load Address |
3730 | * Entry Point | 3734 | * Entry Point |
@@ -4417,6 +4421,20 @@ On Nios II, the ABI is documented here: | |||
4417 | Note: on Nios II, we give "-G0" option to gcc and don't use gp | 4421 | Note: on Nios II, we give "-G0" option to gcc and don't use gp |
4418 | to access small data sections, so gp is free. | 4422 | to access small data sections, so gp is free. |
4419 | 4423 | ||
4424 | On NDS32, the following registers are used: | ||
4425 | |||
4426 | R0-R1: argument/return | ||
4427 | R2-R5: argument | ||
4428 | R15: temporary register for assembler | ||
4429 | R16: trampoline register | ||
4430 | R28: frame pointer (FP) | ||
4431 | R29: global pointer (GP) | ||
4432 | R30: link register (LP) | ||
4433 | R31: stack pointer (SP) | ||
4434 | PC: program counter (PC) | ||
4435 | |||
4436 | ==> U-Boot will use R10 to hold a pointer to the global data | ||
4437 | |||
4420 | NOTE: DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR must be used with file-global scope, | 4438 | NOTE: DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR must be used with file-global scope, |
4421 | or current versions of GCC may "optimize" the code too much. | 4439 | or current versions of GCC may "optimize" the code too much. |
4422 | 4440 | ||