603e Clock Issue -- Decrementer Problem

[Thomas Doerfler]

Jennifer, Joel,

> 
> My Output looks like the following:
> 
> bsp_start (Top): Decrementer at 0xFFD4DAA1
> bsp_start: Zero out lots of memory
> Cpu: 0x7 Revision: 4609
> Cpu MPC603ev
> <snip>
> MSR: 0x2030
> clockOn: Decrementer at 0xFFE5C5B7
> clockOn: Setting decrementer to 0xA1220
> clockOn: Decrementer at 0xFFFEF1AA
> 
> <<=== JOEL HERE: notice that the value read indicates that the set never
>    occurred.  We have both looked at the assembly and don't see how this
>    could happen.  There is a mtdec between the two prints. 

No, I think you are wrong. The second value is HIGHER than the first, so
either the DEC has spun a whole 32 bit range (which might make sense
only when aour console runs at 30 Bits/sec) or it has been reloaded.

Please observe that the printk between the two Decrementer operations
will take a LONG time (in measures of the DEC tick rate) so it might be
better to store the DEC values in variables and output them later.

There had been many changes around the decrementer recently. Jennifer,
can you check the actual opcodes generated to access the DEC? I had a
strange problem a short time ago where the MPC8xx Timebase could not be
read, I never came to the bottom of that problem...

At least the shared code (libbsp/powerpc/shared/clock/*) now tests for
various flavours of the CPU, it also checks whether we have a "e300"
(formerly named 603LE) which has a decrementer reload feature. Maybe
this is what you see here? On these cores, this feature can be enabled
in one of the HID register: HID0, bit 25 is the DECAREN bit. if it is
set, the decrementer automatically reloads after it has reached zero (it
took 15 years until this feature was built in...)

Maybe Sebastian can help on next week.

wkr,
Thomas.


> 
> Below is the compilation options on  the file:
> 
>  
> 
> powerpc-rtems4.9-gcc --pipe -B../../../../.././lib/ 
> -B../../../../.././score603e/lib/ -specs bsp_specs -qrtems 
> -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"rtems-c-src-lib-libcpu-powerpc\" 
> -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"rtems-c-src-lib-libcpu-powerpc\" 
> -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"4.8.99.0\" 
> -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"rtems-c-src-lib-libcpu-powerpc\ 4.8.99.0\" 
> -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"http://www.rtems.org/bugzilla\" -I. 
> -I../../../../../../../rtems-work/rtems/c/src/lib/libcpu/powerpc 
> -isystem ../../../../.././score603e/lib/include -Wall 
> -Wimplicit-function-declaration -Wstrict-prototypes -Wnested-externs 
> -mcpu=603e -Dppc603e -O2 -g -fno-keep-inline-functions -MT 
> mpc6xx/clock/mpc6xx_clock_rel-c_clock.o -MD -MP -MF 
> mpc6xx/clock/.deps/mpc6xx_clock_rel-c_clock.Tpo -c -o 
> mpc6xx/clock/mpc6xx_clock_rel-c_clock.o `test -f 
> 'mpc6xx/clock/c_clock.c' || echo 
> '../../../../../../../rtems-work/rtems/c/src/lib/libcpu/powerpc/'`mpc6xx/clock/c_clock.c
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks. (from joel and jennifer)
> 
> 


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