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+.. comment SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0
+
+.. COMMENT: Copyright (c) 2014 embedded brains GmbH. All rights reserved.
+
+Lattice Mico32 Specific Information
+###################################
+
+This chaper discusses the Lattice Mico32 architecture dependencies in this port
+of RTEMS. The Lattice Mico32 is a 32-bit Harvard, RISC architecture "soft"
+microprocessor, available for free with an open IP core licensing
+agreement. Although mainly targeted for Lattice FPGA devices the microprocessor
+can be implemented on other vendors' FPGAs, too.
+
+**Architecture Documents**
+
+For information on the Lattice Mico32 architecture, refer to the following
+documents available from Lattice Semiconductor http://www.latticesemi.com/.
+
+- *"LatticeMico32 Processor Reference Manual"*
+ http://www.latticesemi.com/dynamic/view_document.cfm?document_id=20890
+
+CPU Model Dependent Features
+============================
+
+The Lattice Mico32 architecture allows for different configurations of the
+processor. This port is based on the assumption that the following options are
+implemented:
+
+- hardware multiplier
+
+- hardware divider
+
+- hardware barrel shifter
+
+- sign extension instructions
+
+- instruction cache
+
+- data cache
+
+- debug
+
+Register Architecture
+=====================
+
+This section gives a brief introduction to the register architecture of the
+Lattice Mico32 processor.
+
+The Lattice Mico32 is a RISC archictecture processor with a 32-register file of
+32-bit registers.
+
+Register Name
+
+Function
+
+r0
+
+holds value zero
+
+r1-r25
+
+general purpose
+
+r26/gp
+
+general pupose / global pointer
+
+r27/fp
+
+general pupose / frame pointer
+
+r28/sp
+
+stack pointer
+
+r29/ra
+
+return address
+
+r30/ea
+
+exception address
+
+r31/ba
+
+breakpoint address
+
+Note that on processor startup all register values are undefined including r0,
+thus r0 has to be initialized to zero.
+
+Calling Conventions
+===================
+
+Calling Mechanism
+-----------------
+
+A call instruction places the return address to register r29 and a return from
+subroutine (ret) is actually a branch to r29/ra.
+
+Register Usage
+--------------
+
+A subroutine may freely use registers r1 to r10 which are *not* preserved
+across subroutine invocations.
+
+Parameter Passing
+-----------------
+
+When calling a C function the first eight arguments are stored in registers r1
+to r8. Registers r1 and r2 hold the return value.
+
+Memory Model
+============
+
+The Lattice Mico32 processor supports a flat memory model with a 4 Gbyte
+address space with 32-bit addresses.
+
+The following data types are supported:
+
+================== ==== ======================
+Type Bits C Compiler Type
+================== ==== ======================
+unsigned byte 8 unsigned char
+signed byte 8 char
+unsigned half-word 16 unsigned short
+signed half-word 16 short
+unsigned word 32 unsigned int / unsigned long
+signed word 32 int / long
+================== ==== ======================
+
+Data accesses need to be aligned, with unaligned accesses result are undefined.
+
+Interrupt Processing
+====================
+
+The Lattice Mico32 has 32 interrupt lines which are however served by only one
+exception vector. When an interrupt occurs following happens:
+
+- address of next instruction placed in r30/ea
+
+- IE field of IE CSR saved to EIE field and IE field cleared preventing further
+ exceptions from occuring.
+
+- branch to interrupt exception address EBA CSR + 0xC0
+
+The interrupt exception handler determines from the state of the interrupt
+pending registers (IP CSR) and interrupt enable register (IE CSR) which
+interrupt to serve and jumps to the interrupt routine pointed to by the
+corresponding interrupt vector.
+
+For now there is no dedicated interrupt stack so every task in the system MUST
+have enough stack space to accommodate the worst case stack usage of that
+particular task and the interrupt service routines COMBINED.
+
+Nested interrupts are not supported.
+
+Default Fatal Error Processing
+==============================
+
+Upon detection of a fatal error by either the application or RTEMS during
+initialization the ``rtems_fatal_error_occurred`` directive supplied by the
+Fatal Error Manager is invoked. The Fatal Error Manager will invoke the
+user-supplied fatal error handlers. If no user-supplied handlers are
+configured or all of them return without taking action to shutdown the
+processor or reset, a default fatal error handler is invoked.
+
+Most of the action performed as part of processing the fatal error are
+described in detail in the Fatal Error Manager chapter in the User's Guide.
+However, the if no user provided extension or BSP specific fatal error handler
+takes action, the final default action is to invoke a CPU architecture specific
+function. Typically this function disables interrupts and halts the processor.
+
+In each of the architecture specific chapters, this describes the precise
+operations of the default CPU specific fatal error handler.
+
+Symmetric Multiprocessing
+=========================
+
+SMP is not supported.
+
+Thread-Local Storage
+====================
+
+Thread-local storage is not implemented.
+
+Board Support Packages
+======================
+
+An RTEMS Board Support Package (BSP) must be designed to support a particular
+processor model and target board combination.
+
+In each of the architecture specific chapters, this section will present a
+discussion of architecture specific BSP issues. For more information on
+developing a BSP, refer to BSP and Device Driver Development Guide and the
+chapter titled Board Support Packages in the RTEMS Applications User's Guide.
+
+System Reset
+------------
+
+An RTEMS based application is initiated or re-initiated when the processor is
+reset.