[PATCH ARM]: Architectural Extensions (Matthew Gretton-Dann or Richard Earnshaw)

[David Fernandez]

Hi there

In the meantime, I've found out that the latest binutils already
includes these patches, BUT, there are several things that don't seem
to work yet. I'll appreciate some information about how soon (roughly)
are fixes expected, or if it is expected to stay like that for long.

Anyway, I've built binutils-2.23.1 in the following machine:
Linux xxx 2.6.18-274.el5 #1 SMP Fri Jul 8 17:36:59 EDT 2011 x86_64
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

with the following configuration (let me know if you want the config.log):
$ configure --target=arm-eabi
--prefix=/home/arm2gcc/cortex-r4_gcc_472_001-binutils
...
$ make -w all install

(all built well)

If I change the .arch directive from armv7-r to armv7-a, and add
.arch_extension virt, and in thumb mode, it seems to eat well the
banked registers, but complains about instructions like:

DDI04060c.b, B9.3.15, SRS (thumb) Encodings T1 & T2: ARMv6T2, ARMv7
srsfd   sp!, #M_USR

DDI04060c.b, A8.8.247, UDF Encoding T1: ARMv4T, ARMv5T*, ARMv6, ARMv7
Encoding T2: ARMv6T2, ARMv7
udf #imm8

Amazingly, it does not complain about rfefd sp!, which is the
counterpart of srsfd.

All this is quite rare, as cortex-r4, which, AFAIK has architecture
armv7-r, should support all these instruction regardless of any
extension.

So, Is anybody working already, or close to work on this?

Am I wrong about something here?

Regards
David Fernandez.

On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 4:33 PM, David Fernandez
<david.fernandez.work@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi there Matthew Gretton-Dann, or Richard Earnshaw, or anybody that
> knows about this...
>
> I moved from cortex-m3 to cortex-r4, just to discover that the
> assembler seems to know nothing about banked registers, SRS/RTE
> instructions and the like, which is worrying, as these AFAIK are basic
> features for armv7-r/a architectures without any security or
> virtualization extensions.
>
> Then I came around these posts that seem to imply that all this stuff
> is suported as pasrt of the "virt" extension for the armv7-a
> architecture. Am I right so far?
>
> So, if that is the case, Do you have apropriate patches like these in
> some ftp for latest binutils 2.23.1?
>
> Otherwise, how can I make the binutils to recognize this stuff?
>
> I'll appreciate a quick answer, although I understand that, so close
> to holidays might make people to not read this list at all... :)
>
> Regards.
> David Fernandez