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From: Antony Pavlov <antonynpavlov@gmail.com>
To: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org, Rouven Czerwinski <rcz@pengutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 02/11] RISC-V: make RISCV_SBI and RISCV_M_MODE explicitly mutually exclusive
Date: Fri, 7 May 2021 21:36:19 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210507213619.09d0fba5db15fe8b5cc86dd4@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0a6bd853-6f84-b699-a1d1-1b1a18ad50cb@pengutronix.de>

On Fri, 7 May 2021 20:08:48 +0200
Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de> wrote:

Hi Ahmad!

> On 07.05.21 19:52, Antony Pavlov wrote:
> > On Fri, 7 May 2021 16:44:24 +0200
> > Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Ahmad !
> > 
> >> Hello Antony,
> >>
> >> On 07.05.21 16:25, Antony Pavlov wrote:
> >>>> I would really like to have a riscv{32,64}_defconfig that can just build all boards
> >>>> at once. Do you know if this could be dynamically determined?
> >>>
> >>> At the moment I have not answer.
> >>> I'll try to investigate dynamic mode determination, it's very attractive idea.
> >>>
> >>> On the other hand compile time mode selection is not the show stopper for
> >>> "one defconfig to build them all": we have to make STACK_SIZE and MALLOC_SIZE
> >>> per-board parameters not per-defconfig parameters like now.
> >>>
> >>> If we could make STACK_SIZE and MALLOC_SIZE per-board compile-time parameters then
> >>> we can make RISC-V mode per-board compile-time parameter too. Is this solution
> >>> acceptable?
> >>
> >> MALLOC_SIZE can be set as 0 and barebox will determine it based on
> >> membase + memsize that are set by PBL.
> >>
> >> STACK_SIZE must be set per Kconfig, but I think even a generous default stack
> >> size should accommodate all targets.
> >>
> >> If we do the same for RISC-V mode that would probably mean having
> >> two functions barebox_riscv_machine_entry() and barebox_riscv_supervisor_entry()
> >> in PBL that take care to pass the correct info to barebox proper.
> >>
> >> Apparently, you can determine mode if you catch exceptions:
> >> https://forums.sifive.com/t/how-to-determine-the-current-execution-privilege-mode/2823
> > 
> > Hmm, answer is mostly negative:
> > 
> > <<
> >   RISC-V deliberately doesn’t make it easy for code to discover
> >   what mode it is running it because this is a virtualisation hole.
> >   As a general principle, code should be designed for and implicitly
> >   know what mode it will run in. 
> >>>
> > 
> >> We don't yet install exception handlers in barebox, but I am fine with using
> >> different PBL common code entry functions.
> >>
> >> What do you think?
> > 
> > I think that adding exception handling to barebox would be very handy.
> > At the moment barebox sometimes hangs during my experiments without any error message.
> > Even with a simple exception handler that just prints out epc, status and cause registers
> > I have much more information on hang reason.
> 
> Exception handling would be useful, no doubt. Rouven is looking
> into adding that.
> 
> I was asking about what you think about adding barebox_riscv_machine_entry()
> and barebox_riscv_supervisor_entry(), so PBL entry points can decide for
> themselves what mode the rest of barebox should get when riscv_mode() is
> called. I'll CC you on the series.

Can we just add one more 'int mode' argument to barebox_riscv_entry()?

-- 
Best regards,
  Antony Pavlov

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-07 18:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-06 22:08 [PATCH v2 00/11] RISC-V: add LiteX SoC support; resurrect nmon Antony Pavlov
2021-05-06 22:08 ` [PATCH v2 01/11] clocksource: timer-riscv: select CSR from device tree Antony Pavlov
2021-05-07 11:34   ` Ahmad Fatoum
2021-05-07 17:41     ` Antony Pavlov
2021-05-07 18:05       ` Ahmad Fatoum
2021-05-06 22:08 ` [PATCH v2 02/11] RISC-V: make RISCV_SBI and RISCV_M_MODE explicitly mutually exclusive Antony Pavlov
2021-05-07 11:42   ` Ahmad Fatoum
2021-05-07 14:25     ` Antony Pavlov
2021-05-07 14:44       ` Ahmad Fatoum
2021-05-07 17:52         ` Antony Pavlov
2021-05-07 18:08           ` Ahmad Fatoum
2021-05-07 18:36             ` Antony Pavlov [this message]
2021-05-06 22:08 ` [PATCH v2 03/11] RISC-V: make it possible to run nmon from PBL C code Antony Pavlov
2021-05-06 22:08 ` [PATCH v2 04/11] RISC-V: boards: erizo: make it possible to use nmon Antony Pavlov
2021-05-06 22:08 ` [PATCH v2 05/11] serial: add litex UART driver Antony Pavlov
2021-05-07 11:45   ` Ahmad Fatoum
2021-05-07 12:02     ` Antony Pavlov
2021-05-06 22:08 ` [PATCH v2 06/11] gpio: add driver for 74xx-ICs with MMIO access Antony Pavlov
2021-05-06 22:08 ` [PATCH v2 07/11] spi: add litex spiflash driver Antony Pavlov
2021-05-06 22:08 ` [PATCH v2 08/11] net: add LiteEth driver Antony Pavlov
2021-05-06 22:08 ` [PATCH v2 09/11] RISC-V: add LiteX SoC and linux-on-litex-vexriscv support Antony Pavlov
2021-05-06 22:08 ` [PATCH v2 10/11] RISC-V: add litex_linux_defconfig Antony Pavlov
2021-05-06 22:08 ` [PATCH v2 11/11] RISC-V: make it possible to build RV32I multi-image with DEBUG_LL=n Antony Pavlov
2021-05-07 10:27   ` Ahmad Fatoum
2021-05-07 10:23 ` [PATCH v2 00/11] RISC-V: add LiteX SoC support; resurrect nmon Ahmad Fatoum
2021-05-07 11:12   ` Antony Pavlov

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