Paul Mackerras
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This adds the necessary machinery to the MMU for it to do radix page table walks. The core elements are a shifter that can shift the address right by between 0 and 47 bits, a mask generator that can generate a mask of between 5 and 16 bits, a final mask generator, and new states in the state machine. (The final mask generator is used for transferring bits of the original address into the resulting TLB entry when the leaf PTE corresponds to a page size larger than 4kB.) The hardware does not implement a partition table or a process table. Software is expected to load the appropriate process table entry into a new SPR called PGTBL0, SPR 720. The contents should be formatted as described in Book III section 5.7.6.2 of the Power ISA v3.0B. PGTBL0 is set to 0 on hard reset. At present, the top two bits of the address (the quadrant) are ignored. There is currently no caching of any step in the translation process or of the final result, other than the entry created in the dTLB. That entry is a 4k page entry even if the leaf PTE found in the walk corresponds to a larger page size. This implementation can handle almost any page table layout and any page size. The RTS field (in PGTBL0) can have any value between 0 and 31, corresponding to a total address space size between 2^31 and 2^62 bytes. The RPDS field of PGTBL0 can be any value between 5 and 16, except that a value of 0 is taken to disable radix page table walking (for use when one is using software loading of TLB entries). The NLS field of the page directory entries can have any value between 5 and 16. The minimum page size is 4kB, meaning that the sum of RPDS and the NLS values of the PDEs found on the path to a leaf PTE must be less than or equal to RTS + 31 - 12. The PGTBL0 SPR is in the mmu module; thus this adds a path for loadstore1 to read and write SPRs in mmu. This adds code in dcache to service doubleword read requests from the MMU, as well as requests to write dTLB entries. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org> |
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README.md
Microwatt
A tiny Open POWER ISA softcore written in VHDL 2008. It aims to be simple and easy to understand.
Simulation using ghdl
You can try out Microwatt/Micropython without hardware by using the ghdl simulator. If you want to build directly for a hardware target board, see below.
- Build micropython. If you aren't building on a ppc64le box you will need a cross compiler. If it isn't available on your distro grab the powerpc64le-power8 toolchain from https://toolchains.bootlin.com. You may need to set the CROSS_COMPILE environment variable to the prefix used for your cross compilers. The default is powerpc64le-linux-gnu-.
git clone https://github.com/micropython/micropython.git
cd micropython
cd ports/powerpc
make -j$(nproc)
cd ../../../
A prebuilt micropython image is also available in the micropython/ directory.
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Microwatt uses ghdl for simulation. Either install this from your distro or build it. Microwatt requires ghdl to be built with the LLVM or gcc backend, which not all distros do (Fedora does, Debian/Ubuntu appears not to). ghdl with the LLVM backend is likely easier to build.
If building ghdl from scratch is too much for you, the microwatt Makefile supports using Docker or podman images. Read through the Makefile for details.
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Next build microwatt:
git clone https://github.com/antonblanchard/microwatt
cd microwatt
make
- Link in the micropython image:
ln -s ../micropython/ports/powerpc/build/firmware.bin main_ram.bin
Or if you were using the pre-built image:
ln -s micropython/firmware.bin main_ram.bin
- Now run microwatt, sending debug output to /dev/null:
./core_tb > /dev/null
Synthesis on Xilinx FPGAs using Vivado
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Install Vivado (I'm using the free 2019.1 webpack edition).
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Setup Vivado paths:
source /opt/Xilinx/Vivado/2019.1/settings64.sh
- Install FuseSoC:
pip3 install --user -U fusesoc
Fedora users can get FuseSoC package via
sudo dnf copr enable sharkcz/danny
sudo dnf install fusesoc
- Create a working directory and point FuseSoC at microwatt:
mkdir microwatt-fusesoc
cd microwatt-fusesoc
fusesoc library add microwatt /path/to/microwatt/
- Build using FuseSoC. For hello world (Replace nexys_video with your FPGA board such as --target=arty_a7-100):
fusesoc run --target=nexys_video microwatt --memory_size=16384 --ram_init_file=/path/to/microwatt/fpga/hello_world.hex
You should then be able to see output via the serial port of the board (/dev/ttyUSB1, 115200 for example assuming standard clock speeds). There is a know bug where initial output may not be sent - try the reset (not programming button) on your board if you don't see anything.
- To build micropython (currently requires 1MB of BRAM eg an Artix-7 A200):
fusesoc run --target=nexys_video microwatt
Testing
- A simple test suite containing random execution test cases and a couple of micropython test cases can be run with:
make -j$(nproc) check
Issues
This is functional, but very simple. We still have quite a lot to do:
- There are a few instructions still to be implemented
- Need to add caches and bypassing (in progress)
- Need to add supervisor state (in progress)