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Philippe Gerum 9bd50df6aa Blackfin arch: Update adeos blackfin arch patch to 1.9-00
Signed-off-by: Philippe Gerum <rpm@xenomai.org>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2009-03-04 16:52:38 +08:00
Jie Zhang 3aee91bafe Blackfin arch: fix 2 bugs related to debug
- unable to single step over emuexcpt instruction
 - gdbproxy goes into infinite loop when doing gdb does "next" over
   "emuexcpt"

Don't decrement PC after software breakpoint.

Signed-off-by: Jie Zhang <jie.zhang@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2009-02-04 16:49:45 +08:00
Bernd Schmidt dbdf20db53 Blackfin arch: Faster C implementation of no-MPU CPLB handler
This is a mixture ofcMichael McTernan's patch and the existing cplb-mpu code.

We ditch the old cplb-nompu implementation, which is a good example of
why a good algorithm in a HLL is preferrable to a bad algorithm written in
assembly.  Rather than try to construct a table of all posible CPLBs and
search it, we just create a (smaller) table of memory regions and
their attributes.  Some of the data structures are now unified for both
the mpu and nompu cases.  A lot of needless complexity in cplbinit.c is
removed.

Further optimizations:
  * compile cplbmgr.c with a lot of -ffixed-reg options, and omit saving
    these registers on the stack when entering a CPLB exception.
  * lose cli/nop/nop/sti sequences for some workarounds - these don't
  * make
    sense in an exception context

Additional code unification should be possible after this.

[Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>:
 - convert CPP if statements to C if statements
 - remove redundant statements
 - use a do...while loop rather than a for loop to get slightly better
   optimization and to avoid gcc "may be used uninitialized" warnings ...
   we know that the [id]cplb_nr_bounds variables will never be 0, so this
   is OK
 - the no-mpu code was the last user of MAX_MEM_SIZE and with that rewritten,
   we can punt it
 - add some BUG_ON() checks to make sure we dont overflow the small
   cplb_bounds array
 - add i/d cplb entries for the bootrom because there is functions/data in
   there we want to access
 - we do not need a NULL trailing entry as any time we access the bounds
   arrays, we use the nr_bounds variable
]

Signed-off-by: Michael McTernan <mmcternan@airvana.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bernd Schmidt <bernds_cb1@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2009-01-07 23:14:38 +08:00
Mike Frysinger 33c8691f45 Blackfin arch: fix building with CONFIG_DEBUG_DOUBLEFAULT
arch/blackfin/mach-common/entry.S:465: Error: pcrel too far
BFD_RELOC_BFIN_10

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-11-18 17:48:22 +08:00
Mike Frysinger 4005978424 Blackfin arch: rename irq_flags to bfin_irq_flags
rename irq_flags to bfin_irq_flags to avoid namespace
collision with common code

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-11-18 17:48:22 +08:00
Graf Yang 6b3087c64a Blackfin arch: SMP supporting patchset: Blackfin header files and machine common code
Blackfin dual core BF561 processor can support SMP like features.
https://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=linux-kernel:smp-like

In this patch, we provide SMP extend to Blackfin header files
and machine common code

Signed-off-by: Graf Yang <graf.yang@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2009-01-07 23:14:39 +08:00
Graf Yang efe065a1b3 Blackfin arch: fix bug - kernel with SMP patch can not bootup
The original code defined _exception_stack but not alloc space for the exception
stack. In exception, this area is over written by exception stack. Common kernel
luckly boot up, but SMP kernel stuck.

Signed-off-by: Graf Yang <graf.yang@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-10-28 14:00:52 +08:00
Mike Frysinger 6ad2b84cf0 Blackfin arch: add an option to allow people to stick exception stack into L1 scratch
allow people to stick exception stack into L1 scratch
and make sure it gets placed into .bss sections rather than .data

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-10-28 11:03:09 +08:00
Graf Yang 4213cb6400 Blackfin arch: fix bug - Turn on DEBUG_DOUBLEFAULT, booting SMP kernel crash
Signed-off-by: Graf Yang <graf.yang@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-11-18 17:48:22 +08:00
Mike Frysinger 47664c1f86 Blackfin arch: give sys_strace proper entry markings
a global _sys_trace will cause the assembler to fail, it should be fixed in toolchain side firstly.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-10-09 15:32:18 +08:00
Michael Hennerich 5e9e7687cb Blackfin arch: Fix BUG -- BF533 + 0.5 silicon + MPU + UART PIO -> crash
Apply ANOMALY_05000283 & ANOMALY_05000315
Workaround also to the EXCEPTION path.

Cover evt_ivhw also with ANOMALY_05000315
The Workaround needs to be prior to accesses (either read or write) to
any system MMR.

Signed-off-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-10-09 12:31:03 +08:00
Sonic Zhang a5ac012924 Blackfin arch: add supporting for kgdb
Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-10-13 14:07:19 +08:00
Robin Getz 0c7a6b2135 Blackfin arch: add supporting for double fault debug handling
Signed-off-by: Robin Getz <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-10-08 16:27:12 +08:00
Bryan Wu 639f657145 Blackfin arch: move include/asm-blackfin header files to arch/blackfin
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-08-27 10:51:02 +08:00
Bryan Wu a4b7b6d7d3 Blackfin arch: hook up some missing new system calls
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-08-14 15:40:19 +08:00
Sonic Zhang d6a2989136 Blackfin arch: Fix bugs - Make kgdb code apparent to app debugging.
- Skip single step if global interrupt disable bit is set.
 - Extend bernds' patch r4673 to skip single step in any interrupt entry
   that interrupts the code which is under single stepping. Bernds' patch
   only allow user space single stepping.

Singed-off-by: Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-08-05 18:28:26 +08:00
Jie Zhang 5400c5aa2d Blackfin arch: Fix bug - This change eliminates impact on application debugging
Signed-off-by: Jie Zhang <jie.zhang@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-08-05 17:33:38 +08:00
Sonic Zhang 0d1cdd7ab6 Blackfin arch: Fix bug - skip single step in high priority interrupt handler instead of disabling all interrupts in single step debugging.
Skip single step if event priority of current instruction is higher than
that of the first instruction, from which gdb starts single step.

Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-07-26 18:54:38 +08:00
Bernd Schmidt 0893f1250f [Blackfin] arch: fix gdb testing regression
When transferring to IRQ5 from an exception, save SYSCFG in memory across the
transfer and clear the trace bit.

When we get a single step exception, check whether we can safely clear the
trace bit in SYSCFG.  We can (and should) clear it after the first instruction
of the interrupt handler; the first insn saves SYSCFG to the stack in all
handlers.

Signed-off-by: Bernd Schmidt <bernds_cb1@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-05-07 11:41:26 +08:00
Bernd Schmidt ddb3f00ca0 [Blackfin] arch: In the double fault handler, set up the PT_RETI slot
In the double fault handler, set up the PT_RETI slot so that
we print out the correct return address in the dumping code.

Signed-off-by: Bernd Schmidt <bernds_cb1@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-05-07 11:41:26 +08:00
Bernd Schmidt 5d750b9e4f [Blackfin] arch: Remove the circular buffering mechanism for exceptions
Remove the circular buffering mechanism for exceptions.  Instead, point RETX
at a safe location from which to fetch three NOPs.

This safe location is now in the fixed code area, and also used for certain
anomaly workarounds, to ensure that user space can find a valid ICPLB when
things are built with CONFIG_MPU.

Also, save I/DCPLB_FAULT_ADDRESS when lowering to level 5, since the hardware
reg is valid only at exception level.

Signed-off-by: Bernd Schmidt <bernds_cb1@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-04-25 05:02:33 +08:00
Bernd Schmidt 2a0c4fdb66 [Blackfin] arch: fix bug - when using trace buffer with CONFIG_MPU enabled.
There were a couple of problems with the way the trace buffer state
is saved/restored in assembly.  The DEBUG_HWTRACE_SAVE/RESTORE macros
save a value to the stack, which is not immediately obvious; the CPLB
exception code needed changes to load the correct value of the stack
pointer.  The other problem is that the SAVE/RESTORE macros weren't
pushing and popping the value downwards on the stack, but rather moving
it _upwards_, which is of course completely broken.

We also need to make sure there's a matching DEBUG_HWTRACE_RESTORE in
the error case of the CPLB handler.

Signed-off-by: Bernd Schmidt <bernds_cb1@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-04-23 07:17:34 +08:00
Bryan Wu 2f775dbaa5 [Blackfin] arch: to kill syscalls missing warning by adding new timerfd syscalls
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-03-06 16:04:58 -07:00
Mike Frysinger 80f31c8a03 [Blackfin] arch: change the trace buffer control start/stop logic in the exception handlers
To save/restore the trace buffer control so that if we take an exception
after turning off the trace buffer at a higher level we dont inadvertently
turn the trace buffer back on

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
2008-02-02 15:47:24 +08:00
Davide Libenzi 4d672e7ac7 timerfd: new timerfd API
This is the new timerfd API as it is implemented by the following patch:

int timerfd_create(int clockid, int flags);
int timerfd_settime(int ufd, int flags,
		    const struct itimerspec *utmr,
		    struct itimerspec *otmr);
int timerfd_gettime(int ufd, struct itimerspec *otmr);

The timerfd_create() API creates an un-programmed timerfd fd.  The "clockid"
parameter can be either CLOCK_MONOTONIC or CLOCK_REALTIME.

The timerfd_settime() API give new settings by the timerfd fd, by optionally
retrieving the previous expiration time (in case the "otmr" parameter is not
NULL).

The time value specified in "utmr" is absolute, if the TFD_TIMER_ABSTIME bit
is set in the "flags" parameter.  Otherwise it's a relative time.

The timerfd_gettime() API returns the next expiration time of the timer, or
{0, 0} if the timerfd has not been set yet.

Like the previous timerfd API implementation, read(2) and poll(2) are
supported (with the same interface).  Here's a simple test program I used to
exercise the new timerfd APIs:

http://www.xmailserver.org/timerfd-test2.c

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style cleanups]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ia64 build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix m68k build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mips build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix alpha, arm, blackfin, cris, m68k, s390, sparc and sparc64 builds]
[heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com: fix s390]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix powerpc build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sparc64 more]
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-05 09:44:07 -08:00
Bernd Schmidt fc97551db9 [Blackfin] arch: Add the semtimedop syscall. Upstream uClibc doesn't compile without it.
Signed-off-by: Bernd Schmidt <bernd.schmidt@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
2008-01-27 19:56:43 +08:00
Bernd Schmidt b97b8a9983 [Blackfin] arch: Initial checkin of the memory protection support.
Enable it with CONFIG_MPU.

Signed-off-by: Bernd Schmidt <bernd.schmidt@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
2008-01-27 18:39:16 +08:00
Robin Getz d5c4b5e3b2 [Blackfin] arch: Let the pre-processor do the math to save a few cycles - no functional changes
Signed-off-by: Robin Getz <robin.getz@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
2007-12-21 17:49:53 +08:00
Robin Getz 6f3ed704b0 [Blackfin] arch: do not use fixed numbers to describe offsets - no functional changes
Signed-off-by: Robin Getz <robin.getz@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
2007-12-21 17:48:07 +08:00
Mike Frysinger 9cb07b23db Blackfin arch: use common __INIT/__FINIT defines rather than setting the .section ourselves to .init.text
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <michael.frysinger@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
2007-11-21 16:45:08 +08:00
Bernd Schmidt 0bad33d93a Blackfin arch: Need to specify ax with the .init.text section,
Need to specify "ax" with the .init.text section, otherwise the linker will
make unique .init.text.1 .. .init.text.3 sections to cope with the flags
2007-11-21 16:33:47 +08:00
Mike Frysinger 46c87c3cce Blackfin arch: Fix typo, and add ENDPROC - no functional changes
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <michael.frysinger@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
2007-11-21 16:15:48 +08:00
Mike Frysinger 8d6c242062 Blackfin arch: rename _return_from_exception to _bfin_return_from_exception and export it
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <michael.frysinger@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
2007-11-21 15:53:49 +08:00
Robin Getz f26fbc48f1 Blackfin arch: ensure we work around ANOMALY_05000261 for null pointers
We currently do not. Also make it easier to handle cplb violations - in traps.c

Signed-off-by: Robin Getz <robin.getz@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
2007-11-12 22:21:30 +08:00
Robin Getz 9f336a5326 Blackfin arch: ensure that speculative loads of bad pointers don't cause us to do bad things.
Fix/change formatting of a few more things.

Signed-off-by: Robin Getz <robin.getz@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
2007-10-29 18:23:28 +08:00
Robin Getz b3f8b92763 Blackfin arch: the load address is not safe to point to as a workaround for ANOMALY 05000281
Now that we have moved head.S into the init section, the load
address is not safe to point to as a workaround for ANOMALY 05000281

Signed-off-by: Robin Getz <robin.getz@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
2007-10-10 17:28:27 +08:00
Robin Getz 337d390b3a Blackfin arch: Print out debug info, as early as possible
Print out debug info, as early as possible - even before the
kernel initializes the interrupt vectors. Now we can print out debug
messages almost anytime during the boot process.

Signed-off-by: Robin Getz <robin.getz@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
2007-10-09 17:31:46 +08:00
Robin Getz 2ebcade590 Blackfin arch: fix endless loop bug when a double fault happens
Today when a double fault happens (exception during an exception
handling event), we go into an endless loop, with nothing comming out
the UART. With this patch, we actually see that we have commited a
double fault event

Signed-off-by: Robin Getz <robin.getz@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
2007-10-09 17:24:30 +08:00
Mike Frysinger 1ffe6646ba Blackfin arch: add an exception request/free api
add an exception request/free api similar to the interrupt request/fre
api so people can utilize the free software based exceptions for their
own purposes

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <michael.frysinger@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
2007-08-05 17:14:04 +08:00
Mike Frysinger f0b5d12f2b Blackfin arch: allow people to select the feature that is unavailable to the kernel
- allow people to select the feature that is unavailable to the kernel: NMI, JTAG, or CYCLES.
 - change default NMI handler to simply dump hardware trace buffer.
 - remove default NMI handler completely as calling into kernel code is not safe
   move example handler to wiki so people dont haphazardly copy and paste this stuff thinking its safe

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <michael.frysinger@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
2007-08-05 17:03:59 +08:00
Robin Getz 518039bc24 Blackfin arch: Add ability to expend the hardware trace buffer
Add ability to expend the hardware trace buffer via a configurable
software buffer - so you can have lots of history when a crash occurs.

The interesting way we do printk in the traps.c confusese the checking
script

Signed-off-by: Robin Getz <robin.getz@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
2007-07-25 11:03:28 +08:00
Mike Frysinger 1aafd90912 Blackfin arch: revise anomaly handling by basing things on the compiler not the kconfig defines
revise anomaly handling by basing things on the compiler not the kconfig defines,
so the header is stable and usable outside of the kernel. This also allows us to
move some code from preprocessing to compiling (gcc culls dead code)
which should help with code quality (readability, catch minor bugs, etc...).

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <michael.frysinger@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
2007-07-25 11:19:14 +08:00
Bryan Wu 0b95f22bd3 Blackfin arch: add some missing syscall
When compiling the Blackfin kernel, checksyscalls.pl will report lots of missing syscalls warnings.
This patch will add some missing syscalls which make sense on Blackfin arch

After appling this patch, toolchain should be rebuilt. Then recompiling the kernel with the new
toolchain.

Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
2007-09-23 00:51:32 +08:00
Mike Frysinger 9401e618c8 Blackfin arch: scrub dead code
we converted to using a system call for userspace spinlocks
rather than a dedicated exception long ago

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <michael.frysinger@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
2007-07-12 11:50:43 +08:00
Mike Frysinger 1f83b8f148 Blackfin arch: cleanup warnings from checkpatch -- no functional changes
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <michael.frysinger@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
2007-07-12 22:58:21 +08:00
Robin Getz 669b792c77 Blackfin arch: Clean up trace buffer handling, No major functional changes.
Turns on trace earlier, so crashes at kernel start should print out a
trace, making things easier to debug.

Signed-off-by: Robin Getz <robin.getz@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <michael.frysinger@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
2007-06-21 16:34:08 +08:00
Bernd Schmidt 7adfb58fbd Blackfin arch: defines and provides entry points for certain user space functions at fixed addresses
This patch defines (and provides) entry points for certain user space functions
at fixed addresses.  The Blackfin has no usable atomic instructions, but we can
ensure that these code sequences appear atomic from a user space point of view
by detecting when we're in the process of executing them during the interrupt
handler return path.  This allows much more efficient pthread lock
implementations than the bfin_spinlock syscall we're currently using.

Also provided is a small sys_rt_sigreturn stub which can be used by the signal
handler setup code.  The signal.c part will be committed separately.

Signed-off-by: Bernd Schmidt <bernd.schmidt@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
2007-06-21 11:34:16 +08:00
Mike Frysinger 51be24c351 Blackfin arch: add proper ENDPROC()
add proper ENDPROC() to close out assembly functions
so size/type is set properly in the final ELF image

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <michael.frysinger@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
2007-06-11 15:31:30 +08:00
Bernd Schmidt c824498db4 Blackfin arch: fix signal handling bug
There's a forum thread at
https://blackfin.uclinux.org/gf/project/uclinux-dist/forum/?action=ForumBrowse&_forum_action=MessageReply&message_id=24741

which has a testcase involving signal handling that crashes quite readily.
Inspecting the code I believe what happens is that signal handling can become
confused when it is invoked on return from an interrupt, if the contents of
P0 and R0 at the time of the interrupt happen to be such that P0 is larger
than zero (indicating to the signal code that we're in a syscall), and R0
happens to have a value of something like -EINTR or -ERESTARTSYS.
Fixed by setting orig_p0 to -1 if we're returning from an interrupt.  The
testcase now seems to run without problems.

Signed-off-by: Bernd Schmidt <bernd.schmidt@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-21 09:50:23 -07:00
Michael Hennerich 8af10b7987 Blackfin arch: Add Workaround for ANOMALY 05000257
Signed-off-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-21 09:50:21 -07:00
Bryan Wu 1394f03221 blackfin architecture
This adds support for the Analog Devices Blackfin processor architecture, and
currently supports the BF533, BF532, BF531, BF537, BF536, BF534, and BF561
(Dual Core) devices, with a variety of development platforms including those
avaliable from Analog Devices (BF533-EZKit, BF533-STAMP, BF537-STAMP,
BF561-EZKIT), and Bluetechnix!  Tinyboards.

The Blackfin architecture was jointly developed by Intel and Analog Devices
Inc.  (ADI) as the Micro Signal Architecture (MSA) core and introduced it in
December of 2000.  Since then ADI has put this core into its Blackfin
processor family of devices.  The Blackfin core has the advantages of a clean,
orthogonal,RISC-like microprocessor instruction set.  It combines a dual-MAC
(Multiply/Accumulate), state-of-the-art signal processing engine and
single-instruction, multiple-data (SIMD) multimedia capabilities into a single
instruction-set architecture.

The Blackfin architecture, including the instruction set, is described by the
ADSP-BF53x/BF56x Blackfin Processor Programming Reference
http://blackfin.uclinux.org/gf/download/frsrelease/29/2549/Blackfin_PRM.pdf

The Blackfin processor is already supported by major releases of gcc, and
there are binary and source rpms/tarballs for many architectures at:
http://blackfin.uclinux.org/gf/project/toolchain/frs There is complete
documentation, including "getting started" guides available at:
http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/ which provides links to the sources and
patches you will need in order to set up a cross-compiling environment for
bfin-linux-uclibc

This patch, as well as the other patches (toolchain, distribution,
uClibc) are actively supported by Analog Devices Inc, at:
http://blackfin.uclinux.org/

We have tested this on LTP, and our test plan (including pass/fails) can
be found at:
http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=testing_the_linux_kernel

[m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl: balance parenthesis in blackfin header files]
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Jie Zhang <jie.zhang@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:12:58 -07:00