@c @c COPYRIGHT (c) 1988-2002. @c On-Line Applications Research Corporation (OAR). @c All rights reserved. @c @c $Id$ @c @chapter Board Support Packages @section Introduction An RTEMS Board Support Package (BSP) must be designed to support a particular processor and target board combination. This chapter presents a discussion of SPARC specific BSP issues. For more information on developing a BSP, refer to the chapter titled Board Support Packages in the RTEMS Applications User's Guide. @section System Reset An RTEMS based application is initiated or re-initiated when the SPARC processor is reset. When the SPARC is reset, the processor performs the following actions: @itemize @bullet @item the enable trap (ET) of the psr is set to 0 to disable traps, @item the supervisor bit (S) of the psr is set to 1 to enter supervisor mode, and @item the PC is set 0 and the nPC is set to 4. @end itemize The processor then begins to execute the code at location 0. It is important to note that all fields in the psr are not explicitly set by the above steps and all other registers retain their value from the previous execution mode. This is true even of the Trap Base Register (TBR) whose contents reflect the last trap which occurred before the reset. @section Processor Initialization It is the responsibility of the application's initialization code to initialize the TBR and install trap handlers for at least the register window overflow and register window underflow conditions. Traps should be enabled before invoking any subroutines to allow for register window management. However, interrupts should be disabled by setting the Processor Interrupt Level (pil) field of the psr to 15. RTEMS installs it's own Trap Table as part of initialization which is initialized with the contents of the Trap Table in place when the @code{rtems_initialize_executive} directive was invoked. Upon completion of executive initialization, interrupts are enabled. If this SPARC implementation supports on-chip caching and this is to be utilized, then it should be enabled during the reset application initialization code. In addition to the requirements described in the Board Support Packages chapter of the @value{LANGUAGE} Applications User's Manual for the reset code which is executed before the call to @code{rtems_initialize_executive}, the SPARC version has the following specific requirements: @itemize @bullet @item Must leave the S bit of the status register set so that the SPARC remains in the supervisor state. @item Must set stack pointer (sp) such that a minimum stack size of MINIMUM_STACK_SIZE bytes is provided for the @code{rtems_initialize_executive} directive. @item Must disable all external interrupts (i.e. set the pil to 15). @item Must enable traps so window overflow and underflow conditions can be properly handled. @item Must initialize the SPARC's initial trap table with at least trap handlers for register window overflow and register window underflow. @end itemize