[Barrelfish-users] Does barrelfish on armv7 appcores ok?

[Simon Gerber]

Hi,

You are right that at the moment Barrelfish can't boot the app core(s)
on the Pandaboard (and probably other boards whose physical memory
starts at a location other than 0x0). This is due to various
assumptions in the ARMv7-specific code (which was developed on the
gem5 simulator) that physical memory starts at 0x0 (among others the
one you found in usr/monitor/arch/armv7/boot.c). Other places that
assume that the physical memory starts at 0x0 can be found in the cpu
driver and memory server (although we wrapped enough of these
locations in #ifdef pandaboard to allow us to boot the BSP core on the
pandaboard completely).

-- Simon G.

On 28 June 2013 05:47, Wang Nan <wangnan0 at huawei.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In usr/monitor/arch/armv7/boot.c, the code try to alloc 0~2GB physical memory for cpu driver on app-core. However, on some arm platform, DDR memory starts from 2GB (0x80000000).
>
> In guess_physical_addr_start ( usr/mem_serv/mem_serv.c ),  the code assumes pandaboard's physical memory starts from 0x80000000. Does it mean that currently barrelfish cannot bringup appcores on
> pandaboard and other arm board?
>
> Thank you!
>
>
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