Changeset 84176f3 in mainline for tools/autotool.py

Timestamp:

2019-04-10T15:04:17Z (6 years ago)

Author:

Jakub Jermář <jakub@…>

Branches:

lfn, master, serial, ticket/834-toolchain-update, topic/msim-upgrade, topic/simplify-dev-export

Children:

8df0306

Parents:

b58728f

git-author:

Petr Pavlu <setup@…> (2019-03-31 14:09:57)

git-committer:

Jakub Jermář <jakub@…> (2019-04-10 15:04:17)

Message:

arm64: Add support for the architecture

This changeset adds basic support to run HelenOS on AArch64, targeting
the QEMU virt platform.

Boot:

• Boot relies on the EDK II firmware, GRUB2 for EFI and the HelenOS bootloader (UEFI application). EDK II loads GRUB2 from a CD, GRUB2 loads the HelenOS bootloader (via UEFI) which loads OS components.
• UEFI applications use the PE/COFF format and must be relocatable. The first problem is solved by manually having the PE/COFF headers and tables written in assembler. The relocatable requirement is addressed by compiling the code with -fpic and having the bootloader relocate itself at its startup.

Kernel:

• Kernel code for AArch64 consists mostly of stubbing out various architecture-specific hooks: virtual memory management, interrupt and exception handling, context switching (including FPU lazy switching), support for virtual timer, atomic sequences and barriers, cache and TLB maintenance, thread and process initialization.
• The patch adds a kernel driver for GICv2 (interrupt controller).
• The PL011 kernel driver is extended to allow userspace to take ownership of the console.
• The current code is not able to dynamically obtain information about available devices on the underlying machine. The port instead implements a machine-func interface similar to the one implemented by arm32. It defines a machine for the QEMU AArch64 virt platform. The configuration (device addresses and IRQ numbers) is then baked into the machine definition.

User space:

• Uspace code for AArch64 similarly mostly implements architecture-specific hooks: context saving/restoring, syscall support, TLS support.

The patchset allows to boot the system but user interaction with the OS
is not yet possible.

File:

• tools/autotool.py (modified) (2 diffs)

tools/autotool.py

@@ -201 +201 @@
                 target = "arm-helenos"
 
+        if (config['PLATFORM'] == "arm64"):
+                platform = config['PLATFORM']
+                target = "aarch64-helenos"
+
         if (config['PLATFORM'] == "ia32"):
                 platform = config['PLATFORM']
@@ -633 +637 @@
 
                 # Platform-specific utilities
-                if ((config['BARCH'] == "amd64") or (config['BARCH'] == "ia32") or (config['BARCH'] == "ppc32") or (config['BARCH'] == "sparc64")):
+                if (config['BARCH'] in ('amd64', 'arm64', 'ia32', 'ppc32', 'sparc64')):
                         common['GENISOIMAGE'] = check_app_alternatives(["genisoimage", "mkisofs", "xorriso"], ["--version"], "ISO 9660 creation utility", "usually part of genisoimage")
                         if common['GENISOIMAGE'] == 'xorriso':