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author | Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@OARcorp.com> | 1998-10-19 19:24:46 +0000 |
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committer | Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@OARcorp.com> | 1998-10-19 19:24:46 +0000 |
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diff --git a/doc/supplements/powerpc/memmodel.texi b/doc/supplements/powerpc/memmodel.texi deleted file mode 100644 index 2865c75e98..0000000000 --- a/doc/supplements/powerpc/memmodel.texi +++ /dev/null @@ -1,125 +0,0 @@ -@c -@c COPYRIGHT (c) 1988-1998. -@c On-Line Applications Research Corporation (OAR). -@c All rights reserved. -@c -@c $Id$ -@c - -@ifinfo -@node Memory Model, Memory Model Introduction, Calling Conventions User-Provided Routines, Top -@end ifinfo -@chapter Memory Model -@ifinfo -@menu -* Memory Model Introduction:: -* Memory Model Flat Memory Model:: -@end menu -@end ifinfo - -@ifinfo -@node Memory Model Introduction, Memory Model Flat Memory Model, Memory Model, Memory Model -@end ifinfo -@section Introduction - -A processor may support any combination of memory -models ranging from pure physical addressing to complex demand -paged virtual memory systems. RTEMS supports a flat memory -model which ranges contiguously over the processor's allowable -address space. RTEMS does not support segmentation or virtual -memory of any kind. The appropriate memory model for RTEMS -provided by the targeted processor and related characteristics -of that model are described in this chapter. - -@ifinfo -@node Memory Model Flat Memory Model, Interrupt Processing, Memory Model Introduction, Memory Model -@end ifinfo -@section Flat Memory Model - -The PowerPC architecture supports a variety of memory models. -RTEMS supports the PowerPC using a flat memory model with -paging disabled. In this mode, the PowerPC automatically -converts every address from a logical to a physical address -each time it is used. The PowerPC uses information provided -in the Block Address Translation (BAT) to convert these addresses. - -Implementations of the PowerPC architecture may be thirty-two or sixty-four bit. -The PowerPC architecture supports a flat thirty-two or sixty-four bit address -space with addresses ranging from 0x00000000 to 0xFFFFFFFF (4 -gigabytes) in thirty-two bit implementations or to 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF -in sixty-four bit implementations. Each address is represented -by either a thirty-two bit or sixty-four bit value and is byte addressable. -The address may be used to reference a single byte, half-word -(2-bytes), word (4 bytes), or in sixty-four bit implementations a -doubleword (8 bytes). Memory accesses within the address space are -performed in big or little endian fashion by the PowerPC based -upon the current setting of the Little-endian mode enable bit (LE) -in the Machine State Register (MSR). While the processor is in -big endian mode, memory accesses which are not properly aligned -generate an "alignment exception" (vector offset 0x00600). In -little endian mode, the PowerPC architecture does not require -the processor to generate alignment exceptions. - -The following table lists the alignment requirements for a variety -of data accesses: - -@ifset use-ascii -@example -@group - +--------------+-----------------------+ - | Data Type | Alignment Requirement | - +--------------+-----------------------+ - | byte | 1 | - | half-word | 2 | - | word | 4 | - | doubleword | 8 | - +--------------+-----------------------+ -@end group -@end example -@end ifset - -@ifset use-tex -@sp 1 -@tex -\centerline{\vbox{\offinterlineskip\halign{ -\vrule\strut#& -\hbox to 1.75in{\enskip\hfil#\hfil}& -\vrule#& -\hbox to 1.75in{\enskip\hfil#\hfil}& -\vrule#\cr -\noalign{\hrule} -&\bf Data Type &&\bf Alignment Requirement&\cr\noalign{\hrule} -&byte&&1&\cr\noalign{\hrule} -&half-word&&2&\cr\noalign{\hrule} -&word&&4&\cr\noalign{\hrule} -&doubleword&&8&\cr\noalign{\hrule} -}}\hfil} -@end tex -@end ifset - -@ifset use-html -@html -<CENTER> - <TABLE COLS=2 WIDTH="60%" BORDER=2> -<TR><TD ALIGN=center><STRONG>Data Type</STRONG></TD> - <TD ALIGN=center><STRONG>Alignment Requirement</STRONG></TD></TR> -<TR><TD ALIGN=center>byte</TD> - <TD ALIGN=center>1</TD></TR> -<TR><TD ALIGN=center>half-word</TD> - <TD ALIGN=center>2</TD></TR> -<TR><TD ALIGN=center>word</TD> - <TD ALIGN=center>4</TD></TR> -<TR><TD ALIGN=center>doubleword</TD> - <TD ALIGN=center>8</TD></TR> - </TABLE> -</CENTER> -@end html -@end ifset - -Doubleword load and store operations are only available in -PowerPC CPU models which are sixty-four bit implementations. - -RTEMS does not directly support any PowerPC Memory Management -Units, therefore, virtual memory or segmentation systems -involving the PowerPC are not supported. - |