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authorJoel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@OARcorp.com>1998-10-19 19:24:46 +0000
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-@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.
-