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5 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Stefan Kalkowski
0635d5fffb hw: turn Cpu_idle into a Thread
Fix #2539
2017-11-06 13:57:20 +01:00
Stefan Kalkowski
ca60e24ad9 hw: run core threads in privileged mode
* introduce new syscall (core-only) to create privileged threads
* take the privilege level of the thread into account
  when doing a context switch
* map kernel segment as accessable for privileged code only

Ref #2091
2017-10-19 13:31:17 +02:00
Stefan Kalkowski
b9549e58d0 hw: cleanup core code (Ref #2394) 2017-05-31 13:15:53 +02:00
Norman Feske
29b8d609c9 Adjust file headers to refer to the AGPLv3 2017-02-28 12:59:29 +01:00
Stefan Kalkowski
7aff1895bf hw: enable SMP for ARM Cortex A9
This commit enables multi-processing for all Cortex A9 SoCs we currently
support. Moreover, it thereby enables the L2 cache for i.MX6 that was not
enabled until now. However, the QEMU variants hw_pbxa9 and hw_zynq still
only use 1 core, because the busy cpu synchronization used when initializing
multiple Cortex A9 cores leads to horrible boot times on QEMU.

During this work the CPU initialization in general was reworked. From now
on lots of hardware specifics were put into the 'spec' specific files, some
generic hook functions and abstractions thereby were eliminated. This
results to more lean implementations for instance on non-SMP platforms,
or in the x86 case where cache maintainance is a non-issue.

Due to the fact that memory/cache coherency and SMP are closely coupled
on ARM Cortex A9 this commit combines so different aspects.

Fix #1312
Fix #1807
2016-01-26 16:20:18 +01:00