diff --git a/README b/README index 06f3ed057d..b53ea7dfe3 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ Directory Hierarchy: /nios2 Files generic to Altera NIOS2 architecture /openrisc Files generic to OpenRISC architecture /powerpc Files generic to PowerPC architecture + /riscv Files generic to RISC-V architecture /sandbox Files generic to HW-independent "sandbox" /sh Files generic to SH architecture /x86 Files generic to x86 architecture @@ -3510,7 +3511,7 @@ Low Level (hardware related) configuration options: globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY). - CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT - [ARM, NDS32, MIPS only] If this variable is defined, then certain + [ARM, NDS32, MIPS, RISC-V only] If this variable is defined, then certain low level initializations (like setting up the memory controller) are omitted and/or U-Boot does not relocate itself into RAM. @@ -4964,6 +4965,22 @@ On NDS32, the following registers are used: NOTE: DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR must be used with file-global scope, or current versions of GCC may "optimize" the code too much. +On RISC-V, the following registers are used: + + x0: hard-wired zero (zero) + x1: return address (ra) + x2: stack pointer (sp) + x3: global pointer (gp) + x4: thread pointer (tp) + x5: link register (t0) + x8: frame pointer (fp) + x10-x11: arguments/return values (a0-1) + x12-x17: arguments (a2-7) + x28-31: temporaries (t3-6) + pc: program counter (pc) + + ==> U-Boot will use gp to hold a pointer to the global data + Memory Management: ------------------ diff --git a/doc/README.NX25 b/doc/README.NX25 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..9f054e5cf2 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/README.NX25 @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +NX25 is Andes CPU IP to adopt RISC-V architecture. + +Features +======== + +CPU Core + - 5-stage in-order execution pipeline + - Hardware Multiplier + - radix-2/radix-4/radix-16/radix-256/fast + - Hardware Divider + - Optional branch prediction + - Machine mode and optional user mode + - Optional performance monitoring + +ISA + - RV64I base integer instructions + - RVC for 16-bit compressed instructions + - RVM for multiplication and division instructions + +Memory subsystem + - I & D local memory + - Size: 4KB to 16MB + - Memory subsyetem soft-error protection + - Protection scheme: parity-checking or error-checking-and-correction (ECC) + - Automatic hardware error correction + +Bus + - Interface Protocol + - Synchronous AHB (32-bit/64-bit data-width), or + - Synchronous AXI4 (64-bit data-width) + +Power management + - Wait for interrupt (WFI) mode + +Debug + - Configurable number of breakpoints: 2/4/8 + - External Debug Module + - AHB slave port + - External JTAG debug transport module + +Platform Level Interrupt Controller (PLIC) + - AHB slave port + - Configurable number of interrupts: 1-1023 + - Configurable number of interrupt priorities: 3/7/15/63/127/255 + - Configurable number of targets: 1-16 + - Preempted interrupt priority stack diff --git a/doc/README.ae250 b/doc/README.ae250 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a80bb39b15 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/README.ae250 @@ -0,0 +1,137 @@ +Andes Technology SoC AE250 +=========================== + +AE250 is the mainline SoC produced by Andes Technology using NX25 CPU core +base on RISC-V architecture. + +AE250 has integrated both AHB and APB bus and many periphals for application +and product development. + +NX25-AE250 +========= + +NX25-AE250 is the SoC with AE250 hardcore CPU. + +Configurations +============== + +CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT: + If you want to boot this system from SPI ROM and bypass e-bios (the + other boot loader on ROM). You should undefine CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT + in "include/configs/nx25-ae250.h". + +Build and boot steps +==================== + +build: +1. Prepare the toolchains and make sure the $PATH to toolchains is correct. +2. Use `make nx25-ae250_defconfig` in u-boot root to build the image. + +Verification +==================== + +Target +==================== +1. startup +2. relocation +3. timer driver +4. uart driver +5. mac driver +6. mmc driver +7. spi driver + +Steps +==================== +1. Define CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT to build u-boot which is loaded via gdb from ram. +2. Undefine CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT to build u-boot which is booted from spi rom. +3. Ping a server by mac driver +4. Scan sd card and copy u-boot image which is booted from flash to ram by sd driver. +5. Burn this u-boot image to spi rom by spi driver +6. Re-boot u-boot from spi flash with power off and power on. + +Messages +==================== +U-Boot 2018.01-rc2-00033-g824f89a (Dec 21 2017 - 16:51:26 +0800) + +DRAM: 1 GiB +MMC: mmc@f0e00000: 0 +SF: Detected mx25u1635e with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 4 KiB, total 2 MiB +In: serial@f0300000 +Out: serial@f0300000 +Err: serial@f0300000 +Net: +Warning: mac@e0100000 (eth0) using random MAC address - be:dd:d7:e4:e8:10 +eth0: mac@e0100000 + +RISC-V # version +U-Boot 2018.01-rc2-00033-gb265b91-dirty (Dec 22 2017 - 13:54:21 +0800) + +riscv32-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc (GCC) 7.2.0 +GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.29 + +RISC-V # setenv ipaddr 10.0.4.200 ; +RISC-V # setenv serverip 10.0.4.97 ; +RISC-V # ping 10.0.4.97 ; +Using mac@e0100000 device +host 10.0.4.97 is alive + +RISC-V # mmc rescan +RISC-V # fatls mmc 0:1 + 318907 u-boot-ae250-64.bin + 1252 hello_world_ae250_32.bin + 328787 u-boot-ae250-32.bin + +3 file(s), 0 dir(s) + +RISC-V # sf probe 0:0 50000000 0 +SF: Detected mx25u1635e with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 4 KiB, total 2 MiB + +RISC-V # sf test 0x100000 0x1000 +SPI flash test: +0 erase: 36 ticks, 111 KiB/s 0.888 Mbps +1 check: 29 ticks, 137 KiB/s 1.096 Mbps +2 write: 40 ticks, 100 KiB/s 0.800 Mbps +3 read: 20 ticks, 200 KiB/s 1.600 Mbps +Test passed +0 erase: 36 ticks, 111 KiB/s 0.888 Mbps +1 check: 29 ticks, 137 KiB/s 1.096 Mbps +2 write: 40 ticks, 100 KiB/s 0.800 Mbps +3 read: 20 ticks, 200 KiB/s 1.600 Mbps + +RISC-V # fatload mmc 0:1 0x600000 u-boot-ae250-32.bin +reading u-boot-ae250-32.bin +328787 bytes read in 324 ms (990.2 KiB/s) + +RISC-V # sf erase 0x0 0x51000 +SF: 331776 bytes @ 0x0 Erased: OK + +RISC-V # sf write 0x600000 0x0 0x50453 +device 0 offset 0x0, size 0x50453 +SF: 328787 bytes @ 0x0 Written: OK + +RISC-V # crc32 0x600000 0x50453 +crc32 for 00600000 ... 00650452 ==> 692dc44a + +RISC-V # crc32 0x80000000 0x50453 +crc32 for 80000000 ... 80050452 ==> 692dc44a +RISC-V # + +*** power-off and power-on, this U-Boot is booted from spi flash *** + +U-Boot 2018.01-rc2-00032-gf67dd47-dirty (Dec 21 2017 - 13:56:03 +0800) + +DRAM: 1 GiB +MMC: mmc@f0e00000: 0 +SF: Detected mx25u1635e with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 4 KiB, total 2 MiB +In: serial@f0300000 +Out: serial@f0300000 +Err: serial@f0300000 +Net: +Warning: mac@e0100000 (eth0) using random MAC address - ee:4c:58:29:32:f5 +eth0: mac@e0100000 +RISC-V # + +TODO +==================== + +Boot bbl and riscv-linux diff --git a/doc/README.standalone b/doc/README.standalone index 659a12f6cb..28ebde1dec 100644 --- a/doc/README.standalone +++ b/doc/README.standalone @@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ Design Notes on Exporting U-Boot Functions to Standalone Applications: Blackfin 0x00001000 0x00001000 NDS32 0x00300000 0x00300000 Nios II 0x02000000 0x02000000 + RISC-V 0x00600000 0x00600000 For example, the "hello world" application may be loaded and executed on a PowerPC board with the following commands: