Changeset a4bd537 in mainline for .gitignore

Timestamp:

2019-04-06T13:39:58Z (6 years ago)

Author:

Petr Pavlu <setup@…>

Children:

f7842ef

Parents:

0d073b8

git-author:

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

git-committer:

Petr Pavlu <setup@…> (2019-04-06 13:39:58)

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:

• .gitignore (modified) (4 diffs)

.gitignore

@@ -14 +14 @@
 /Makefile.config
 /PKG
+/QEMU_EFI_ARM64.fd
 /common.h
 /config.h
@@ -24 +25 @@
 autotool/
 boot/arch/arm32/_link.ld
+boot/arch/arm64/_link.ld
 boot/arch/ia64/_link.ld
 boot/arch/mips32/_link.ld
@@ -49 +51 @@
 kernel/arch/amd64/_link.ld
 kernel/arch/arm32/_link.ld
+kernel/arch/arm64/_link.ld
 kernel/arch/ia32/_link.ld
 kernel/arch/ia64/_link.ld
@@ -361 +364 @@
 uspace/lib/c/arch/arm32/_link-shlib.ld
 uspace/lib/c/arch/arm32/_link.ld
+uspace/lib/c/arch/arm64/_link-dlexe.ld
+uspace/lib/c/arch/arm64/_link-loader.ld
+uspace/lib/c/arch/arm64/_link-shlib.ld
+uspace/lib/c/arch/arm64/_link.ld
 uspace/lib/c/arch/ia32/_link-dlexe.ld
 uspace/lib/c/arch/ia32/_link-loader.ld