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authorJustin Hibbits <jhibbits@FreeBSD.org>2016-10-22 01:57:15 +0000
committerJustin Hibbits <jhibbits@FreeBSD.org>2016-10-22 01:57:15 +0000
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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
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Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=307761
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@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ CELL
POWERPC
POWERPC64
+POWERPCSPE
FPU_EMU