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Author SHA1 Message Date
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
Stefan Kalkowski
a40932a324 hw: refactor irq controllers
* name irq controller memory mapped I/O regions consistently
  in board descriptions
* move irq controller and timer memory mapped I/O region descriptions
  from cpu class to board class
* eliminate artificial distinction between flavors of ARM's GIC
* factor cpu local initialization out of ARM's GIC interface description,
  which is needed if the GIC is initialized differently e.g. for TrustZone

Ref #1405
2015-02-27 11:43:56 +01:00
Martin Stein
a5cf09fa6e hw: re-organize file structure
fix #1197
2014-08-15 10:19:48 +02:00