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authorJoel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@OARcorp.com>2001-11-27 12:15:06 +0000
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2001-11-27 Joel Sherrill <joel@OARcorp.com>,
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-#
-# $Id$
-#
-
-There are various issues regarding this port:
-
-
-
-1) Legal
-
-This port is written by Andrew Bray <andy@i-cubed.co.uk>, and
-is copyright 1995 i-cubed ltd.
-
-This port was later updated by Joel Sherrill <joel@OARcorp.com>
-to test the support for the PPC603, PPC603e, and MPC604. This
-was tested on the PowerPC simulator PSIM and a VMEbus single board
-computer.
-
-2) CPU support.
-
-This release fully supports the PPC403GA, PPC403GB, PPC603, PPC603e,
-MPC604, MPC750, and numerous MPC8xx processors. A good faith attempt
-has been made to include support other models based upon available
-documentation including the MPC5xx. There are two interrupt structures
-supported by the PowerPC port. The newer structure is supported by
-all the MPC750 and MPC604 BSPs. This structure is required to use
-the RDBG remote debugging support.
-
-This port was originally written and tested on the PPC403GA (using
-software floating point). Current ports are tested primarily on
-60x CPUs using the PowerPC simulator PSIM.
-
-Andrew Bray received assistance during the initial porting effort
-from IBM and Blue Micro and we would like to gratefully acknowledge
-that help.
-
-The support for the PPC602 processor is incomplete as only sketchy
-data is currently available. Perhaps this model has been dropped.
-
-3) Application Binary Interface
-
-In the context of RTEMS, the ABI is of interest for the following
-aspects:
-
-a) Register usage. Which registers are used to provide static variable
- linkage, stack pointer etc.
-
-b) Function calling convention. How parameters are passed, how function
- variables should be invoked, how values are returned, etc.
-
-c) Stack frame layout.
-
-I am aware of a number of ABIs for the PowerPC:
-
-a) The PowerOpen ABI. This is the original Power ABI used on the RS/6000.
- This is the only ABI supported by versions of GCC before 2.7.0.
-
-b) The SVR4 ABI. This is the ABI defined by SunSoft for the Solaris port
- to the PowerPC.
-
-c) The Embedded ABI. This is an embedded ABI for PowerPC use, which has no
- operating system interface defined. It is promoted by SunSoft, Motorola,
- and Cygnus Support. Cygnus are porting the GNU toolchain to this ABI.
-
-d) GCC 2.7.0. This compiler is partway along the road to supporting the EABI,
- but is currently halfway in between.
-
-This port was built and tested using the PowerOpen ABI, with the following
-caveat: we used an ELF assembler and linker. So some attention may be
-required on the assembler files to get them through a traditional (XCOFF)
-PowerOpen assembler.
-
-This port contains support for the other ABIs, but this may prove to be
-incomplete as it is untested.
-
-The RTEMS PowerPC port supports EABI as the primary ABI. The powerpc-rtems
-GNU toolset configuration is EABI.
-
-Andrew Bray, 4 December 1995
-Joel Sherrill, 16 July 1997