Changes in the driver and world system:
* Rewrite driver logic to include more advanced concepts. The notion of
binding a driver to a device is introduced to formalize wait(); power
management is now built-in instead of being handled by the drivers
(for instance DMA). The new driver model is described in great detail
in <gint/drivers.h>
* Formalized the concept of "world switch" where the hardware state is
saved and later restored. As a tool, the world switch turns out to be
very stable, and allows a lot of hardware manipulation that would be
edgy at best when running in the OS world.
* Added a GINT_DRV_SHARED flag for drivers to specify that their state
is shared between worlds and not saved/restored. This has a couple of
uses.
* Exposed a lot more of the internal driver/world system as their is no
particular downside to it. This includes stuff in <gint/drivers.h>
and the driver's state structures in <gint/drivers/states.h>. This is
useful for debugging and for cracked concepts, but there is no
API stability guarantee.
* Added a more flexible driver level system that allows any 2-digit
level to be used.
Feature changes:
* Added a CPU driver that provides the VBR change as its state save.
Because the whole context switch relied on interrupts being disabled
anyway, there is no longer an inversion of control when setting the
VBR; this is just part of the CPU driver's configuration. The CPU
driver may also support other features such as XYRAM block transfer
in the future.
* Moved gint_inthandler() to the INTC driver under the name
intc_handler(), pairing up again with intc_priority().
* Added a reentrant atomic lock based on the test-and-set primitive.
Interrupts are disabled with IMASK=15 for the duration of atomic
operations.
* Enabled the DMA driver on SH7305-based fx-9860G. The DMA provides
little benefit on this platform because the RAM is generally faster
and buffers are ultimately small. The DMA is still not available on
SH3-based fx-9860G models.
* Solved an extremely obnoxious bug in timer_spin_wait() where the
timer is not freed, causing the callback to be called when interrupts
are re-enabled. This increments a random value on the stack. As a
consequence of the change, removed the long delays in the USB driver
since they are not actually needed.
Minor changes:
* Deprecated some of the elements in <gint/hardware.h>. There really is
no good way to "enumerate" devices yet.
* Deprecated gint_switch() in favor of a new function
gint_world_switch() which uses the GINT_CALL abstraction.
* Made the fx-9860G VRAM 32-aligned so that it can be used for tests
with the DMA.
Some features of the driver and world systems have not been implemented
yet, but may be in the future:
* Some driver flags should be per-world in order to create multiple
gint worlds. This would be useful in Yatis' hypervisor.
* A GINT_DRV_LAZY flag would be useful for drivers that don't want to
be started up automatically during a world switch. This is relevant
for drivers that have a slow start/stop sequence. However, this is
tricky to do correctly as it requires dynamic start/stop and also
tracking which world the current hardware state belongs to.
This commit introduces a large architectural change. Unlike previous
models of the fx-9860G series, the G-III models have a new user RAM
address different from 8801c000. The purpose of this change is to
dynamically load GMAPPED functions to this address by querying the TLB,
and call them through a function pointer whose address is determined
when loading.
Because of the overhead of using a function pointer in both assembly and
C code, changes have been made to avoid GMAPPED functions altogether.
Current, only cpu_setVBR() and gint_inth_callback() are left, the second
being used specifically to enable TLB misses when needed.
* Add a .gint.mappedrel section for the function pointers holding
addresses to GMAPPED functions; add function pointers for
cpu_setVBR() and gint_inth_callback()
* Move rram to address 0 instead of the hardcoded 0x8801c000
* Load GMAPPED functions at their linked address + the physical address
user RAM is mapped, to and compute their function pointers
* Remove the GMAPPED macro since no user function needs it anymore
* Add section flags "ax" (code) or "aw" (data) to every custom .section
in assembler code, as they default to unpredictable values that can
cause the section to be marked NOLOAD by the linker
* Update the main kernel, TMU, ETMU and RTC interrupt handlers to use
the new indirect calling method
This is made possible by new MMU functions giving direct access to the
physical area behind any virtualized page.
* Add an mmu_translate() function to query the TLB
* Add an mmu_uram() function to access user RAM from P1
The exception catching mechanism has been modified to avoid the use of
GMAPPED functions altogether.
* Set SR.BL=0 and SR.IMASK=15 before calling exception catchers
* Move gint_exc_skip() to normal text ROM
* Also fix registers not being popped off the stack before a panic
The timer drivers have also been modified to avoid GMAPPED functions.
* Invoke timer_stop() through gint_inth_callback() and move it to ROM
* Move and expand the ETMU driver to span 3 blocks at 0xd00 (ETMU4)
* Remove the timer_clear() function by inlining it into the ETMU handler
(TCR is provided within the storage block of each timer)
* Also split src/timer/inth.s into src/timer/inth-{tmu,etmu}.s
Additionally, VBR addresses are now determined at runtime to further
reduce hardcoded memory layout addresses in the linker script.
* Determine fx-9860G VBR addresses dynamically from mmu_uram()
* Determine fx-CG 50 VBR addresses dynamically from mmu_uram()
* Remove linker symbols for VBR addresses
Comments and documentation have been updated throughout the code to
reflect the changes.
Since both platforms now have their VBR and gint-specific data loaded
along the add-in's data, the .gint.data section is entirely unused.
The .gint.bss section is still used for uninitialized objects (it has
different semantics than .bss which is initially cleared) and the
.gint.data.sh3 and .gint.bss.sh3 sections that are dropped on the
SH4-only fx-CG 50 are also still used.
* Removed .pretext sections since the TLB is now entirely dynamic; left
only .text.entry for the start symbol.
* Reworked the main files of src/core to move the INTC to its own driver
and let the kernel handle only VBR space and CPU (now: VBR & CPUOPM).
* Moved src/core/gint.c to src/core/kernel.c and centralized all driver
loops that save or restore context for more robustness. This leaves
the callbacks of cpu_setVBR() (formerly gint_setvbr()) pretty short.
* Coalesced gint_switch_out() and gint_switch_in() into a single
function callback for cpu_setVBR().
* Added an abstraction of interrupt signals as an enumerated value so
that drivers no longer hardcode the IPR and IMR numbers and bits,
sometimes even with isSH3() due to differences in the SH7705.
* Changed the interrupt blocking method in cpu_setVBR() from SR.BL=1 to
SR.IMASK=15 so that TLB misses are still handled. This removes the
need for callback functions to be GMAPPED.
* Moved gint_osmenu() and its utilities to a new file src/core/osmenu.c.
This change removes the RRAM region which was inherited from the fx9860g
memory layout but no longer relevant on fxcg50. This removed one
occurrence of a hardcoded user stack address in the linker script, the
other being the VBR address. But since the VBR only contains
position-independent code that is manually "relocated" at startup, the
linker script needs not actually use its value, so this is not a true
dependency.
gint should now more or less be able to boot up on an fxcg20, except for
the hardcoded VRAM addresses which need to be moved to the fxcg20 system
stack.
This change ports the TLB management system to fx9860g through %003.
This raises the size limit for add-ins to about 500k.
Because SH3 fx9860g does not have ILRAM, the GMAPPED attribute has been
made to generate content to a .gint.mapped section which is sent to the
P1 RAM section historically dubbed "real ram" in which gint's data and
VBR are installed. (Now that I think about it, gint's data should try to
go to normal RAM instead to reduce pressure on this invasion.)
Return-to-menu was also fixed on both platforms by narrowing down the
need for code to remain mapped to the chance of running it with
interrupts disabled. The natural distribution of GMAPPED under this
criterion showed that _gint_setvbr had been left under TLB control;
moving it to the proper RAM area fixed gint switches.
Finally, an omission in the bound checks for mappable TEA addresses (TEA
>= 0x00300000) prevented the appearance of a non-interactible System
ERROR popup when some unmapped addresses are accessed.
This version still does not enable interrupts in timer callbacks,
exposing any application to a crash if a timer underflows while its
callback is not mapped. It is not suitable for any stable application!
This change adds a TLB miss handler that calls __TLB_LoadPTEH() and
removes the startu mapping of add-in pages in the explore() routine of
src/core/start.c.
Note that calling __TLB_LoadPTEH() manually might unexpectedly lead to a
TLB multihit problem as the requested page might be accidentally loaded
by a TLB miss in the code that loads it. A TLB multihit is a platform
reset, so this function should always be considered unsafe to call
(unless the calling code is in a combination of P1 space and ILRAM).
This change also moves a lot of functions out of the .pretext section,
notably topti, as this was designed to allow panic messages when the
add-in couldn't be mapped entirely. By contrast, a GMAPPED macro has
been defined to mark crucial kernel code and data that must remain
mapped at all times. This currently puts the data in ILRAM because
static RAM is not executable. An alternative will have to be found for
SH3-based fx9860g machines.
This version still does not allow TLB misses in timer callbacks and
breaks return-to-menu in a severe way! It is not suitable for any
stable application!
This change modifies the fx-CG 50 linker script to allow add-ins up to
2M and no longer complains about add-ins that don't fit in the TLB.
It also exposes the __TLB_LoadPTEH() syscall (%003 on fx9860g, %00c on
fxcg50) that answers TLB misses. This syscall can be called manually
from an add-in to load some pages and seems to work without problem.
However, this version does not provide any automatic TLB management,
some key areas of the kernel are still under TLB and some user code
(such as timer callbacks) is not! This version is suitable only for
add-ins smaller than 220k!
t6k11: use the gint array for variant detection
r61524: use true triple buffering by default
display: define DWIDTH and DHEIGHT
display: add C_RGB(r,g,b) (0 ≤ r,g,b ≤ 31) [fxcg50]
This change adds support for three sections .ilram, .xram and .yram,
along with three macros GILRAM, GXRAM and GYRAM, that can be used to
statically load data to on-chip memory.
This change introduces exception handlers that default to a fatal error
with an on-screen description of the exception and some debugging
information.
It also adds the dprint() function as a definitely-needed helper and
removes bootlog_unmapped() by using the exception handler for the fatal
error display. (Also printf() is now required in all gint add-ins; this
is sad, but space is not as much of a constraint as debugging.)
Finally, the exception handler is used to handle an interrupt which is
an exception in practice, the DMA address error. On fx-CG 50, additional
DMA-related information is displayed on the screen. This is left out on
fx-9860G as there is not enough space.
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