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Steven Miao b76f98236a blackfin: vmlinux.lds.S: reserve 32 bytes space at the end of data section for XIP kernel
to collect some undefined section to the end of the data section and avoid section overlap

Signed-off-by: Steven Miao <realmz6@gmail.com>
2014-07-26 08:32:50 +08:00
Steven Miao 353470cc50 Blackfin: make sure percpu section is aligned in XIP builds
The alignment is normally handled by PERCPU(), but we need to do it
ourselves in the XIP build due to the custom layout.

Signed-off-by: Steven Miao <realmz6@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2011-07-23 01:18:22 -04:00
Mike Frysinger d6cb2e3a8d Blackfin: use new common PERCPU_INPUT define
The Blackfin percpu input sections are outdated, so rather than update
them, drop them completely and use the new common define.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2011-05-25 08:24:15 -04:00
Tejun Heo 0415b00d17 percpu: Always align percpu output section to PAGE_SIZE
Percpu allocator honors alignment request upto PAGE_SIZE and both the
percpu addresses in the percpu address space and the translated kernel
addresses should be aligned accordingly.  The calculation of the
former depends on the alignment of percpu output section in the kernel
image.

The linker script macros PERCPU_VADDR() and PERCPU() are used to
define this output section and the latter takes @align parameter.
Several architectures are using @align smaller than PAGE_SIZE breaking
percpu memory alignment.

This patch removes @align parameter from PERCPU(), renames it to
PERCPU_SECTION() and makes it always align to PAGE_SIZE.  While at it,
add PCPU_SETUP_BUG_ON() checks such that alignment problems are
reliably detected and remove percpu alignment comment recently added
in workqueue.c as the condition would trigger BUG way before reaching
there.

For um, this patch raises the alignment of percpu area.  As the area
is in .init, there shouldn't be any noticeable difference.

This problem was discovered by David Howells while debugging boot
failure on mn10300.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
2011-03-24 18:50:09 +01:00
Sonic Zhang c6345ab1a3 Blackfin: SMP: work around anomaly 05000491
In order to safely work around anomaly 05000491, we have to execute IFLUSH
from L1 instruction sram.  The trouble with multi-core systems is that all
L1 sram is visible only to the active core.  So we can't just place the
functions into L1 and call it directly.  We need to setup a jump table and
place the entry point in external memory.  This will call the right func
based on the active core.

In the process, convert from the manual relocation of a small bit of code
into Core B's L1 to the more general framework we already have in place
for loading arbitrary pieces of code into L1.

Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2011-03-18 04:01:04 -04:00
steven miao ef9d8c251a Blackfin: SMP: PERCPU section should be PAGE aligned
Common code checks the alignment of some of the variables and calls BUG()
if they aren't page aligned.

Signed-off-by: steven miao <realmz6@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2011-03-18 04:01:01 -04:00
Tejun Heo 19df0c2fef percpu: align percpu readmostly subsection to cacheline
Currently percpu readmostly subsection may share cachelines with other
percpu subsections which may result in unnecessary cacheline bounce
and performance degradation.

This patch adds @cacheline parameter to PERCPU() and PERCPU_VADDR()
linker macros, makes each arch linker scripts specify its cacheline
size and use it to align percpu subsections.

This is based on Shaohua's x86 only patch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
2011-01-25 14:26:50 +01:00
Mike Frysinger d49e8e7e5a Blackfin: use common EXCEPTION_TABLE() in vmlinux.lds
Rather than do our own thing, use what common code provides.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2010-08-06 12:55:45 -04:00
Barry Song d86bfb1600 Blackfin: initial XIP support
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <barry.song@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2010-03-09 00:30:48 -05:00
Jie Zhang 0afc272cc6 Blackfin: fix relocation errors with large initramfs images
Since we are now discarding .exit.text at runtime instead of link time, we
need to place all .text sections ahead of the .data sections.  Otherwise,
a really large attached initramfs may cause link errors as it pushes the
PC relative relocations behind the limits of the Blackfin ISA (~16meg).
The instructions in the .exit.text are unable to call back into the .text
sections leading to a link failure.

Signed-off-by: Jie Zhang <jie.zhang@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2010-03-09 00:30:48 -05:00
Linus Torvalds 525995d77c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vapier/blackfin
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vapier/blackfin: (88 commits)
  Blackfin: Convert BUG() to use unreachable()
  Blackfin: define __NR_recvmmsg
  Blackfin: drop duplicate sched_clock
  Blackfin: NOMPU: skip DMA ICPLB hole when it is redundant
  Blackfin: MPU: add missing __init markings
  Blackfin: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME
  Blackfin: kgdb_test: clean up code a bit
  Blackfin: convert kgdbtest to proc_fops
  Blackfin: convert cyc2ns() to clocksource_cyc2ns()
  Blackfin: ip0x: pull in asm/portmux.h for P_xxx defines
  Blackfin: drop unused ax88180 resources
  Blackfin: bf537-stamp: add ADF702x network driver resources
  Blackfin: bf537-stamp: add CAN resources
  Blackfin: bf537-stamp: add AD5258 i2c address
  Blackfin: bf537-stamp: add adau1761 i2c address
  Blackfin: bf537-stamp: add adau1371 i2c address
  Blackfin: bf537-stamp: add ADP8870 resources
  Blackfin: bf537-stamp: kill AD714x board-specific Kconfigs
  Blackfin: bf537-stamp: update ADP5520 resources
  Blackfin: bf537-stamp: add ADXL346 orientation sensing support
  ...
2009-12-16 10:52:35 -08:00
Alan Jenkins 9e1b9b8072 module: make MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX into a CONFIG option
The next commit will require the use of MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX in
.tmp_exports-asm.S.  Currently it is mixed in with C structure
definitions in "asm/module.h".  Move the definition of this arch option
into Kconfig, so it can be easily accessed by any code.

This also lets modpost.c use the same definition.  Previously modpost
relied on a hardcoded list of architectures in mk_elfconfig.c.

A build test for blackfin, one of the two MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX archs,
showed the generated code was unchanged.  vmlinux was identical save
for build ids, and an apparently randomized suffix on a single "__key"
symbol in the kallsyms data).

Signed-off-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> (blackfin)
CC: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-12-15 16:28:26 +10:30
Mike Frysinger 5cd82a6d58 Blackfin: calculate on-chip lengths at link time rather than run time
Since the link sizes never change at runtime, push the calculation out to
the linker script to save some useless calculation costs.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2009-12-15 00:13:55 -05:00
Robin Getz 96f1050d3d Blackfin: mass clean up of copyright/licensing info
Bill Gatliff & David Brownell pointed out we were missing some
copyrights, and licensing terms in some of the files in
./arch/blackfin, so this fixes things, and cleans them up.

It also removes:
 - verbose GPL text(refer to the top level ./COPYING file)
 - file names (you are looking at the file)
 - bug url (it's in the ./MAINTAINERS file)
 - "or later" on GPL-2, when we did not have that right

It also allows some Blackfin-specific assembly files to be under a BSD
like license (for people to use them outside of Linux).

Signed-off-by: Robin Getz <robin.getz@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2009-10-07 04:36:26 -04:00
Tim Abbott 4a5e35135d blackfin: Cleanup linker script using new linker script macros.
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Cc: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
Cc: uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24 17:16:22 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 8d7ac69ffa Blackfin: Fix link errors with binutils 2.19 and GCC 4.3
Not sure whether this has been reported/fixed before.

Today I built a Blackfin tool-chain from scratch for -tip testing,
and it triggers:

 arch/blackfin/kernel/vmlinux.lds:1238: undefined section `.data_a_l1' referenced in expression

and:

 arch/blackfin/kernel/vmlinux.lds:1238: undefined section `.text_data_l1'
referenced in expression

Now i dont have any way to test this linker script, but it now at
least builds fine after fixing what appears to be typos in those
assert statements.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2009-09-16 22:10:30 -04:00
Tejun Heo 023bf6f1b8 linker script: unify usage of discard definition
Discarded sections in different archs share some commonality but have
considerable differences.  This led to linker script for each arch
implementing its own /DISCARD/ definition, which makes maintaining
tedious and adding new entries error-prone.

This patch makes all linker scripts to move discard definitions to the
end of the linker script and use the common DISCARDS macro.  As ld
uses the first matching section definition, archs can include default
discarded sections by including them earlier in the linker script.

ia64 is notable because it first throws away some ia64 specific
subsections and then include the rest of the sections into the final
image, so those sections must be discarded before the inclusion.

defconfig compile tested for x86, x86-64, powerpc, powerpc64, ia64,
alpha, sparc, sparc64 and s390.  Michal Simek tested microblaze.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Tested-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2009-07-09 11:27:40 +09:00
Tejun Heo 405d967dc7 linker script: throw away .discard section
x86 throws away .discard section but no other archs do.  Also,
.discard is not thrown away while linking modules.  Make every arch
and module linking throw it away.  This will be used to define dummy
variables for percpu declarations and definitions.

This patch is based on Ivan Kokshaysky's alpha percpu patch.

[ Impact: always throw away everything in .discard ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-24 15:13:38 +09:00
Mike Frysinger 1ee76d7e16 Blackfin: initial support for ftrace grapher
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2009-06-13 07:20:16 -04:00
Mike Frysinger 70f12567ac Blackfin: add support for GENERIC_BUG
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2009-06-13 07:20:07 -04:00
Robin Getz b8d0c778e6 Blackfin: allow scheduler functions to be placed into L1
Signed-off-by: Robin Getz <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2009-06-12 06:03:44 -04:00
Mike Frysinger 4636b3019a Blackfin arch: add link-time asserts to make sure on-chip regions dont overflow
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2009-03-29 00:47:31 +08:00
Bernd Schmidt 6f985294f7 Blackfin arch: fix bugs in linker script when using upstream binutils
Fix a few problems I discovered when building a kernel with upstream CVS
binutils.

We have to add the NOTES macro to our linker script, since a kernel
built with --build-id is otherwise unable to boot.  Last time NOTES was
added, it broke things, but the definition of the macro has changed not
to rely on parts of the linker script that aren't present on Blackfin.

I also noticed that _l2_lma_start does not point into the kernel image,
but rather somewhere in L1/L2 space, which seems unintended.  Also, when
the L2 section was added to the linker script, the part following it which
computes then length of the init section was not updated.

Signed-off-by: Bernd Schmidt <bernds_cb1@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2009-01-07 23:14:39 +08:00
Mike Frysinger b60705765a Blackfin arch: move out irq related functions
move irq related functions into asm/irq.h and out of the mondo asm/system.h

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-11-18 17:48:22 +08:00
Graf Yang 46fa5eecec Blackfin arch: SMP supporting patchset: some other misc code
Blackfin dual core BF561 processor can support SMP like features.
https://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=linux-kernel:smp-like

In this patch, we provide SMP extend to some other misc code

Singed-off-by: Graf Yang <graf.yang@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2009-01-07 23:14:39 +08:00
Mike Frysinger 07aa7be570 Blackfin arch: convert L2 defines to be the same as the L1 defines
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-08-13 16:16:11 +08:00
Mike Frysinger 1375204611 Blackfin arch: make sure the BSS and kernel load address are 4 byte aligned
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-08-06 17:10:57 +08:00
Sonic Zhang 262c3825a9 Blackfin arch: Extend sram malloc to handle L2 SRAM.
Extend system call to alloc L2 SRAM in application.
Automatically move following sections to L2 SRAM:
1. kernel built-in l2 attribute section
2. kernel module l2 attribute section
3. elf-fdpic application l2 attribute section

Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-07-19 15:42:41 +08:00
Mike Frysinger bc6e0fa159 [Blackfin] arch: use the same style for missing L1 sections
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-04-24 06:21:25 +08:00
Sonic Zhang b85b82d980 [Blackfin] arch: fix bug - Section data_l1_cacheline_aligned should be defined in link script of kernel
http://blackfin.uclinux.org/gf/project/uclinux-dist/tracker/?action=TrackerItemEdit&tracker_item_id=3978

Section data_l1_cacheline_aligned should be defined in
link script of kernel, when L1 data sram bank A is not available.

In bf536 with all data cache is enabled, there is no L1 data sram.
Current link script won't define section data_l1.cacheline_aligned in
this case. But, if user select put cacheline_aligned data into l1 sram
in kernel menuconfig, these data will be dropped and access to these
data will trigger data CPLB exception.

Do panic in l1 relocation code as well.

Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-04-24 06:13:37 +08:00
Bernd Schmidt 9df7a8f622 [Blackfin] arch: remove NOTES from linker script
Since
  r3658 | vapier | 2007-09-12 16:26:11 +0200 (Wed, 12 Sep 2007) | 1 line

  add more common defines for output sections

we've had a new line, NOTES, in our linker script, which causes upstream
binutils to complain about "missing phdr".  Currently the only other arch
that uses NOTES is i386, and the patch which added it also added
PHDRS {
	text PT_LOAD FLAGS(5);	/* R_E */
	data PT_LOAD FLAGS(7);	/* RWE */
	note PT_NOTE FLAGS(0);	/* ___ */
}
and a few other modifications to use ":text" and ":data" to the linker
script.

It seems that we don't need NOTES at all, so just remove it.

Signed-off-by: Bernd Schmidt <bernds_cb1@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-03-26 06:39:15 +08:00
Mike Frysinger 8b07a2a1e5 [Blackfin] arch: handle the most common L1 shrinkage case (L1 does not exist for a part) so that any parts labeled for L1 instead get placed into external memory sections
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-02-29 11:57:35 +08:00
Mike Frysinger b7627acc43 [Blackfin] arch: move the init sections to the end of memory
Move the init sections to the end of memory so that after they
are free, run time memory is all continugous - this should help decrease
memory fragementation.

When doing this, we also pack some of the other sections a little closer
together, to make sure we don't waste memory. To make this happen,
we need to rename the .data.init_task section to .init_task.data, so
it doesn't get picked up by the linker script glob.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
2008-02-02 15:53:17 +08:00
Sam Ravnborg 01ba2bdc6b all archs: consolidate init and exit sections in vmlinux.lds.h
This patch consolidate all definitions of .init.text, .init.data
and .exit.text, .exit.data section definitions in
the generic vmlinux.lds.h.

This is a preparational patch - alone it does not buy
us much good.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-01-28 23:21:17 +01:00
Mike Frysinger 36208059c1 Blackfin arch: reclaim a few bytes from the end of our init section
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <michael.frysinger@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
2007-10-30 12:00:02 +08:00
Mike Frysinger c11b5776bf Blackfin arch: add more common defines for output sections
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <michael.frysinger@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
2007-10-11 00:12:41 +08:00
Mike Frysinger 27d875f2c1 Blackfin arch: vmlinux.lds.S, break up our .init into separate sections
Break up our .init into separate section like all other ports do and
so that we dont mix text and data (causes disassembly headaches as
pointed out by Robin)

Cc: Robin Getz <robin.getz@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <michael.frysinger@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
2007-08-27 16:08:53 +08:00
Mike Frysinger fbeb7370b6 Blackfin arch: parse input sections properly when using -ffunction-sections/-fdata-sections
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <michael.frysinger@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
2007-08-27 15:02:20 +08:00
Bernd Schmidt 0fa63ad7d1 Blackfin arch: fix bug which unaligns the init thread's stack and causes the current macro to fail.
switch to using proper defines this time (THREAD_SIZE and PAGE_SIZE)
instead of just PAGE_SIZE everywhere

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <michael.frysinger@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bernd Schmidt <bernd.schmidt@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
2007-07-25 10:19:59 +08:00
Mike Frysinger 520473b077 Blackfin arch: use PAGE_SIZE when doing aligns rather than hardcoded values
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <michael.frysinger@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
2007-07-12 12:20:20 +08:00
Mike Frysinger de6a9520d4 Blackfin arch: redo our linker script a bit
- we can start taking advantages of defines in asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
 - move our L1 relocated sections into init so it gets freed after relocation

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <michael.frysinger@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
2007-06-11 17:27:05 +08:00
Robin Getz 5716e514ed Blackfin arch: all symbols were offset by 4k, since we didn't have the __text label.
Bug tracker: http://blackfin.uclinux.org/gf/project/uclinux-dist/tracker/?action=TrackerItemEdit&tracker_item_id=3231

Singed-off-by: Robin Getz <robin.getz@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
2007-06-11 15:31:30 +08:00
Sam Ravnborg ca967258b6 all-archs: consolidate .data section definition in asm-generic
With this consolidation we can now modify the .data
section definition in one spot for all archs.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-05-19 09:11:57 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg 7664709b44 all-archs: consolidate .text section definition in asm-generic
Move definition of .text section to asm-generic.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-05-19 09:11:57 +02:00
Bryan Wu 1394f03221 blackfin architecture
This adds support for the Analog Devices Blackfin processor architecture, and
currently supports the BF533, BF532, BF531, BF537, BF536, BF534, and BF561
(Dual Core) devices, with a variety of development platforms including those
avaliable from Analog Devices (BF533-EZKit, BF533-STAMP, BF537-STAMP,
BF561-EZKIT), and Bluetechnix!  Tinyboards.

The Blackfin architecture was jointly developed by Intel and Analog Devices
Inc.  (ADI) as the Micro Signal Architecture (MSA) core and introduced it in
December of 2000.  Since then ADI has put this core into its Blackfin
processor family of devices.  The Blackfin core has the advantages of a clean,
orthogonal,RISC-like microprocessor instruction set.  It combines a dual-MAC
(Multiply/Accumulate), state-of-the-art signal processing engine and
single-instruction, multiple-data (SIMD) multimedia capabilities into a single
instruction-set architecture.

The Blackfin architecture, including the instruction set, is described by the
ADSP-BF53x/BF56x Blackfin Processor Programming Reference
http://blackfin.uclinux.org/gf/download/frsrelease/29/2549/Blackfin_PRM.pdf

The Blackfin processor is already supported by major releases of gcc, and
there are binary and source rpms/tarballs for many architectures at:
http://blackfin.uclinux.org/gf/project/toolchain/frs There is complete
documentation, including "getting started" guides available at:
http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/ which provides links to the sources and
patches you will need in order to set up a cross-compiling environment for
bfin-linux-uclibc

This patch, as well as the other patches (toolchain, distribution,
uClibc) are actively supported by Analog Devices Inc, at:
http://blackfin.uclinux.org/

We have tested this on LTP, and our test plan (including pass/fails) can
be found at:
http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=testing_the_linux_kernel

[m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl: balance parenthesis in blackfin header files]
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Jie Zhang <jie.zhang@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:12:58 -07:00