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The nds32 architecture, also known as AndeStar V3, is a custom 32-bit
RISC target designed by Andes Technologies. Support was added to the
kernel in 2016 as the replacement RISC-V based V5 processors were
already announced, and maintained by (current or former) Andes
employees.
As explained by Alan Kao, new customers are now all using RISC-V,
and all known nds32 users are already on longterm stable kernels
provided by Andes, with no development work going into mainline
support any more.
While the port is still in a reasonably good shape, it only gets
worse over time without active maintainers, so it seems best
to remove it before it becomes unusable. As always, if it turns
out that there are mainline users after all, and they volunteer
to maintain the port in the future, the removal can be reverted.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/YhdWNLUhk+x9RAzU@yamatobi.andestech.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220302065213.82702-1-alankao@andestech.com/
Link: https://www.andestech.com/en/products-solutions/andestar-architecture/
Signed-off-by: Alan Kao <alankao@andestech.com>
[arnd: rewrite changelog to provide more background]
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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In order for kernel to capture each denormalized output, the UDF
trapping enable bit is always raised in $fpcsr. Because underflow case will
issue not an underflow exception but also an inexact exception, it causes
that the IEX, IEX cumulative exception, flag in $fpcsr to be raised in each
denormalized output handling. To make the emulation transparent to the
user, the emulator needs to clear the IEX flag in $fpcsr if the result is a
denormalized number. However, if the IEX flag has been raised before this
floating point emulation, this cleanup may be incorrect. To avoid the IEX
flags in $fpcsr be raised in each denormalized output handling, the IEX
trap shall be always enabled.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Chen <vincentc@andestech.com>
Acked-by: Greentime Hu <greentime@andestech.com>
Signed-off-by: Greentime Hu <greentime@andestech.com>
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This patch corrects the SPDX License Identifier style
in the nds32 Hardware Architecture related files.
Suggested-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Nishad Kamdar <nishadkamdar@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Greentime Hu <greentime@andestech.com>
Signed-off-by: Greentime Hu <greentime@andestech.com>
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We add a config for user to enable or disable this feature.
It can be used to control the hardware prefetch function.
Signed-off-by: Nylon Chen <nylon7@andestech.com>
Acked-by: Greentime Hu <greentime@andestech.com>
Signed-off-by: Greentime Hu <greentime@andestech.com>
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This patch set contains basic components for supporting the nds32 FPU,
such as exception handlers and context switch for FPU registers. By
default, the lazy FPU scheme is supported and the user can configure it via
CONFIG_LZAY_FPU.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Chen <vincentc@andestech.com>
Acked-by: Greentime Hu <greentime@andestech.com>
Signed-off-by: Greentime Hu <greentime@andestech.com>
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There two bitfield bug for perfomance counter
in bitfield.h:
PFM_CTL_offSEL1 21 --> 16
PFM_CTL_offSEL2 27 --> 22
This commit fix it.
Signed-off-by: Nickhu <nickhu@andestech.com>
Acked-by: Greentime Hu <greentime@andestech.com>
Signed-off-by: Greentime Hu <greentime@andestech.com>
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The nds32 architecture will use physical memory when interrupt or
exception comes and it will use the setting of NTC0-4. The original
implementation didn't consider the DRAM start address may start from 1GB,
2GB or 3GB to cause this issue. It will write the data to DRAM if it is
running in physical address however kernel will read the data with
virtaul address through data cache. In this case, the data of DRAM is
latest.
This fix will set the correct cacheability to let kernel write/read the
latest data in cache instead of DRAM.
Signed-off-by: Greentime Hu <greentime@andestech.com>
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Refine readability of INT_MASK_INITAIAL_VAL with meaningful macro instead
of magic number.
Signed-off-by: Greentime Hu <greentime@andestech.com>
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This patch includes assembly macros, bit field definitions used in .S
files across arch/nds32/.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Chen <vincentc@andestech.com>
Signed-off-by: Greentime Hu <greentime@andestech.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Alan Kao
Vincent Chen
Nishad Kamdar
Nylon Chen
Nickhu
Greentime Hu