RISC-V interrupts

Denis Obrezkov denisobrezkov at gmail.com
Thu Jun 8 22:38:31 UTC 2017


2017-06-08 17:49 GMT+03:00 Denis Obrezkov <denisobrezkov at gmail.com>:

> 2017-06-08 12:24 GMT+03:00 Denis Obrezkov <denisobrezkov at gmail.com>:
>
>> 2017-06-07 22:41 GMT+03:00 Hesham Almatary <heshamelmatary at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 2:26 AM, Denis Obrezkov <denisobrezkov at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > 2017-06-07 14:44 GMT+03:00 Sebastian Huber
>>> > <sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de>:
>>> >>
>>> >> On 06/06/17 18:58, Hesham Almatary wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>> Originally RTEMS had a one big linkcmd for each platform, which
>>> >>> defines linker symbols (used in C code) and required sections. This
>>> >>> has been improved with current BSPs (like ARM-based ones), by
>>> >>> splitting up shared linkcmd parts (linkcmd base) and BSP specific
>>> ones
>>> >>> that include the shared one. riscv_generic, given that it's old,
>>> >>> follows the old way of having a single big linkcmd. You can change
>>> >>> this for your new BSP.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> New ports/BSPs should definitely use a shared linkcmds.base (see
>>> ARM). Use
>>> >> "riscv-rtems4.12-ld --verbose" to get the default linker script.
>>> >
>>> > Ok.
>>> >
>>> > Now I have a problem:
>>> > https://github.com/embeddedden/rtems-riscv/blob/hifive1/c/sr
>>> c/lib/libbsp/riscv32/hifive1/start/start.S#L117
>>> > When I step to that line, gdb hangs with a message:
>>> > (gdb) step
>>> > Note: automatically using hardware breakpoints for read-only addresses.
>>> >
>>> How do you run/attach simulator (and which one do you use)? Do GDB and
>>> the simulator support 0x20400000 > addresses (where your text section
>>> is loaded to)? AFAIK, that's not the case. Spike's default machine
>>> only works with addresses >= 0x80000000. You've to look up if Spike,
>>> Qemu [1] or GDB target sim model your board.
>>
>> I use openOCD from FreeStudio kit:
> https://github.com/sifive/freedom-e-sdk/blob/master/
> FreedomStudio/HiFive1/hello/openocd.cfg
>
> I was able to run code in ROM region, after I made this:
>
> MEMORY
> {
>     ROM      : ORIGIN = 0x20400000, LENGTH = 128M
>     RAM      : ORIGIN = 0x80000000, LENGTH = 64K
> }
>
> REGION_ALIAS ("REGION_VECTOR", RAM);
> REGION_ALIAS ("REGION_START", ROM);
> REGION_ALIAS ("REGION_TEXT", ROM);
> REGION_ALIAS ("REGION_TEXT_LOAD", ROM);
> REGION_ALIAS ("REGION_RODATA", ROM);
> REGION_ALIAS ("REGION_RODATA_LOAD", ROM);
> REGION_ALIAS ("REGION_DATA", RAM);
> REGION_ALIAS ("REGION_DATA_LOAD", ROM);
> REGION_ALIAS ("REGION_FAST_DATA", RAM);
> REGION_ALIAS ("REGION_FAST_DATA_LOAD", ROM);
> REGION_ALIAS ("REGION_BSS", RAM);
> REGION_ALIAS ("REGION_WORK", RAM);
> REGION_ALIAS ("REGION_STACK", RAM);
>
> And gdb can step till the "call boot_card" instruction,
> but I can't proceed any further due to the error:
> gdb hands after stepping into "call boot_card"
> At the same time openocd shows:
>
> halted at 0x20400202 due to step
> halted at 0x20400262 due to hardware trigger
> halted at 0x204010c2 due to step
>
> The last line appears after attempt to make the step.
> Links to my linkcmd and start.S files:
> https://github.com/embeddedden/rtems-riscv/blob/hifive1/c/src/lib/libbsp/
> riscv32/hifive1/startup/linkcmds
> https://github.com/embeddedden/rtems-riscv/blob/hifive1/c/src/lib/libbsp/
> riscv32/hifive1/start/start.S
>
>
> Regards, Denis Obrezkov
>

I also found out that when I use stepi on "call boot_card" I got a warning
from openocd:
Core got an exception (0xffffffff) while reading from 0x8000effc

-- 
Regards, Denis Obrezkov
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