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Date:      Tue, 15 Oct 2019 14:55:08 +0200
From:      =?utf-8?Q?S=C3=B8ren_Schmidt?= <soren.schmidt@gmail.com>
To:        Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>
Cc:        freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Trouble starting AP cpu's on all winner R40/V40 chip, help needed?
Message-ID:  <07E4329F-3DFD-49FB-A3BC-A63790DCC798@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <C3E6AB41-30DA-4BB7-A6E8-533D536413E2@gmail.com>
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> On 15 Oct 2019, at 14.27, S=C3=B8ren Schmidt <soren.schmidt@gmail.com> =
wrote:
>=20
> Hi Manu
>=20
>>=20
>>> Hi all
>>>=20
>>> I found some time to wrestle the allwinner R40/v40 I?ve sitting =
around, but I?m bashing my head against getting the AP?s booted =
properly.
>>>=20
>>> I don?t seem to be able to get the CPU to run at all, or (more =
likely) I don?t have a way to get them startet at ?mpentry? to get them =
going correctly.
>>>=20
>>> I?m not sure I understand how those AP?s gets their starting =
address, the only reference to ?mpentry? is aw_mp.c:
>>>=20
>>>=20
>>> bus_space_write_4(fdtbus_bs_tag, cpucfg, CPUCFG_P_REG0,
>>>           pmap_kextract((vm_offset_t)mpentry));
>>>=20
>>> This is used on all all winner cpu?s (more or less) but according =
til the R40/v40 docs that register doesn?t exist which would explain the =
failure?
>=20
>>=20
>> R40 seems to use different registers for cpu bringup, so you will =
need
>> to define a new platform for it in aw_machdep.c and defines some new
>> function for ap bringup in aw_mp.c
>> The User Manual section 3.2 of the R40 have all the needed info.
>>=20
>=20
> Yeps, already did that, and I can reset the cores etc, that seems to =
work (register bits flips), but there are no mention of regs to put the =
starting address into.
>=20
> Chap 3.2 doesn=E2=80=99t mention anything in that regard (at least in =
the docs I=E2=80=99ve found online) its moved to chap 4.2 in the latest =
R40/V40/T3 docs I=E2=80=99ve found bu still no mention of starting =
address.
>=20
> I looks somewhat like the A20 ie it has control for 2 cpu=E2=80=99s =
the last two are missing from the register ref, which suggests to me =
that the docs might be inaccurate at best.
>=20
> I looked into =E2=80=9CTina-linux=E2=80=9D that they made for it, but =
I havn=E2=80=99t found out how they start it there either..
>=20
> I might also just have stared me blind at it :)

Found that the start adresse is somewhere else:

CPU software entry register offset 00bc in sysctl instead of cpuctl=E2=80=A6=


I=E2=80=99ll try that when I get home later today,,,

-S=C3=B8ren=



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