From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4AC65B9C.4010303@domain.hid> Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:59:24 +0200 From: Gilles Chanteperdrix MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4AC2448B.1080500@domain.hid> <1254396765.2703.234.camel@domain.hid> <4AC62883.1080908@domain.hid> <1254505304.2703.347.camel@domain.hid> <4AC63CF0.7090001@domain.hid> <1254511088.2703.367.camel@domain.hid> In-Reply-To: <1254511088.2703.367.camel@domain.hid> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Xenomai-core] RFC: 2.5 todo list. List-Id: Xenomai life and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Philippe Gerum Cc: Patrice Kadionik , Xenomai core Philippe Gerum wrote: > On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 19:48 +0200, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: >> Philippe Gerum wrote: >>>> Ok. So, if we add the core skin fdtable, this leaves us with two items: >>>> - signals in primary domain >>>> - core skin fdtable >>>> >>> Ack. Add the following I-pipe stuff as well: >>> >>> - nios2 design upgrade. Those FPGA thingies require a bit of support to >>> be included into the soft-core in order to run a real-time system, like >>> a high precision timer and some stable monotonic clock source. Patrice >>> Kadionik (the guy who lives there: http://uuu.enseirb.fr/~kadionik/) >>> sent me an update for the FPGA design I used to do the initial port over >>> nios2. This is mostly a matter of a couple of hours to fix and validate >>> the I-pipe core accordingly, though. >> Maybe you could ask for a hardware implementation of mul64by64_high... > > It looks like custom instructions are restricted to input(32bit x 2) => > output(32bit). > > Patrice, do you confirm, or would it be possible to implement such > instruction, that would return the highest 32 bits from a 64 x 64 > multiply op? We need this to speed up some arithmetics, especially on a > 50Mhz CPU. We want the highest 64 bits. So, you need at least 4 registers. (4 inputs, 2 outputs, but we may assume that the 2 outputs override 2 inputs register). > > If we can't, well, I will likely have to subject myself to write a small > assembly block doing just this, because gcc's output is likely not going > to look like the way Gilles wants. Well, maybe there is a way to modify the plain C version to generate better code by reducing the number of variables. But that is uncertain business. Anyway, I do not want anything, if you are happy with the plain C version, then by all means, keep it. You can measure the time that the whole thing takes using the unit test. > >>> - powerpc32 updates for 2.6.30. Mainly to merge the once experimental >>> bits that prevent most alignment faults from triggering a secondary mode >>> switch. Andreas told me this works like a charm on 83xx, and I did not >>> see any issue on 52xx, 85xx or 86xx either. >>> >>> - probably blackfin updates. I need to have a closer look, but I'm >>> afraid I will have to resync with mainline before 2.5.0 is out. Blackfin >>> folks never sleep it seems. >>> >>> - x86* updates to issue patches for the 2.6.30-stable and 2.6.31-stable >>> series. >>> >>> You may have a few ARM patches brewing as well? >> Actually yes. The "pic mute" feature was disabled on AT91 because it was >> causing latency peaks, but I plan to enable it ultimately. I think the >> latency peaks were due to the fact that I was testing a 2.4 with the bug >> which we fixed in 2.4.9.1, I just need to check that. And if pic mute >> works on AT91, then I would implement it for other SOCs. And an upgrade >> to 2.6.31 would be fine too. >> > > Ok. How many interrupt controllers would be impacted by the PIC mute > feature? Most of the ARM PICs (with their cascaded GPIOs). I have to admit that I do not keep track of how many arm processors we actually support, but there's a handful. Or maybe two. -- Gilles.