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Re: Current kernel with http://gnats.netbsd.org/39965 and pmap patches



Nice work! I have confirmed that this fixes the ATARITT kernel boot issue on the TT030.

I could install up until the bootloader halting issue described yesterday. Tomorrow I will file a PR on the bootloader issue, I just want to zero my drive first to confirm that doesn't help.

David Ross
dross%pobox.com@localhost

----- Original Message ----- From: "T. Makinen" <tjamaloo%gmail.com@localhost>
To: "Izumi Tsutsui" <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>
Cc: <dross%pobox.com@localhost>; <port-atari%netbsd.org@localhost>
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 11:48 AM
Subject: Re: Current kernel with http://gnats.netbsd.org/39965 and pmap patches


On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost> wrote:
Okay, with a quick glance, reloc operation for options RELOC_KERNEL
is done after all necessary bootstrap STEs and PTEs are initialized,
so we have to carefully use the following three types of addresses
in the start_c() function:

(1) physicall address before relocation
 This should be used to fetch global variables in start_c()
 before relocation (including page table addresses initialized
 during bootstrap).

(2) physicall address after relocation
 This should be used for physical address pointers
 which will be used after MMU is enabled.
 (including PA values stored into STEs and PTEs)

(3) kernel virtual address
 This should be used for virtual address pointers
 which will be used after MMU is enabled, and
 for virtual address to calculate STE/PTE indexes during bootstrap.

On the other hand, (1) and (3) have the same values
(at least in kernel text/data/bss) and some variables
used in start_c() have both meanings.
It actually confuses readers...

I've cleaned up various variables in atari_init.c (attached)
(BTW that means it's no longer sync'ed with amiga ;-p).

That's good :) Amiga uses also independent variables for vstart and pstart;
I think that atari_init.c is now clearer.

Summary of changes are:

- use independent variables for (1) and (3) (pstart and vstart etc.)
 even if they have the same values (since they have different meanings)

- only global Sysseg_pa and Sysptmap_pa belong (2),
 so initialize them as (1) first and
 use explicit address reloc conversion for PTE and STE values,
 then update these global variables as (2)
 after all bootstrap initialization is complete

- make mmu0[34]0_setup() (and cpu_init_kcorehdr()) take
 Sysseg_pa (before relocation) as an arg, to avoid reference of
 global Sysseg_pa (it could be changed at some point as noted above)

- use properly variable types (st_entry_t, pt_entry_t etc) for readability
 (XXX: we should also use paddr_t/vaddr_t/psize_t/vsize_t properly)

- don't map Sysptmap and kernel page tables with PG_CI
 but only do so for Sysseg on 040/060
 (amiga pmap seems to have the same bug, though
  those KVA ranges seem used only for debug printfs)

- misc style nits

...I'm afraid I'd put various botches, though.
(it's really hard to implement without real hardware ;-)

I've also put new kernels with this change:
http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/~tsutsui/netbsd/netbsd-ATARITT-HEAD-20081230.gz
http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/~tsutsui/netbsd/netbsd-BOOT-HEAD-20081230.gz
http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/~tsutsui/netbsd/netbsd-FALCON-HEAD-20081230.gz

Great work! I tested FALCON kernel and I can now boot with RELOC_KERNEL (and
with 68060 :). However I can't test RELOC_KERNEL with 68030 because 68060
accelerator has TT-RAM.

Thanks!

-Tuomo




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