documentation:
- Remove "mainbus" altogether.
- The new root is "plb" - the Processor Local Bus.
- Attached to this is the "opb" - the On-chip Peripheral Bus, to which
all the on-chip devices are attached (except the cpu and pci host
bridge).
- Port-specific code can pass an array of 'struct plb_dev' to
config_rootfound() to attach extra devices to the plb. The walnut
port attaches a "pbus" (Peripheral Bus) in here for the RTC and
pc keyboard controller to attach to.
There is still much 405GP specific code; the next round of changes will
generalise this to enable easier support for other 4xx CPUs.
counters. These counters do not exist on all CPUs, but where they
do exist, can be used for counting events such as dcache misses that
would otherwise be difficult or impossible to instrument by code
inspection or hardware simulation.
pmc(9) is meant to be a general interface. Initially, the Intel XScale
counters are the only ones supported.
Move the trap/vector initialization for MPC6xx ports to mpc6xx_machdep.c
Also move softnet, install_extintr, mapiodev, kvtop. Add common BAT
initialization code.
Add user Altivec support.
Fix calls to OF_call_method in macppc/macppc/machdep.c.
Use ci_fpuproc in cpu_info instead of separate fpuproc.
Add separate syscall.c and defined __HAVE_SYSCALL_INTERN.
the irq to hardware interrupt mask map instead of using two different
interrelated arrays and a bit mask that I've got wrong more than once
when updating by hand (including when I recently added the keyboard/mouse
interrupt mappings). Now only the galaxy_intr_map[] array needs to
be updated when adding extra interrupts.
Enforce -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes for all ppc ports.
Split out macppc cpu support and make common to mpc6xx ports. Make
other mpc6xx ports use it. Add evcnts for mpc6xx traps.
by Eduardo Horvath and Simon Burge of Wasabi Systems.
IBM 4xx series CPU features:
- New pmap and revised trap handler.
- Support on-chip timers, PCI controller, UARTs
- Framework for on-chip ethernet and watchdog timer.
General PowerPC features:
- Add in-kernel PPC floating point emulation
- New in{,4}_cksum that is between 1.5 and 5 times faster than the
old version depending on CPU type.
General changes:
- Kernel support for generic dbsym-style symbols.
simonb