Add documentation for the mps3-an536 board type. Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> --- docs/system/arm/mps2.rst | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/system/arm/mps2.rst b/docs/system/arm/mps2.rst index 8a75beb3a08..a305935cc49 100644 --- a/docs/system/arm/mps2.rst +++ b/docs/system/arm/mps2.rst @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ -Arm MPS2 and MPS3 boards (``mps2-an385``, ``mps2-an386``, ``mps2-an500``, ``mps2-an505``, ``mps2-an511``, ``mps2-an521``, ``mps3-an524``, ``mps3-an547``) -========================================================================================================================================================= +Arm MPS2 and MPS3 boards (``mps2-an385``, ``mps2-an386``, ``mps2-an500``, ``mps2-an505``, ``mps2-an511``, ``mps2-an521``, ``mps3-an524``, ``mps3-an536``, ``mps3-an547``) +========================================================================================================================================================================= -These board models all use Arm M-profile CPUs. +These board models use Arm M-profile or R-profile CPUs. The Arm MPS2, MPS2+ and MPS3 dev boards are FPGA based (the 2+ has a bigger FPGA but is otherwise the same as the 2; the 3 has a bigger @@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ FPGA image. QEMU models the following FPGA images: +FPGA images using M-profile CPUs: + ``mps2-an385`` Cortex-M3 as documented in Arm Application Note AN385 ``mps2-an386`` @@ -30,6 +32,11 @@ QEMU models the following FPGA images: ``mps3-an547`` Cortex-M55 on an MPS3, as documented in Arm Application Note AN547 +FPGA images using R-profile CPUs: + +``mps3-an536`` + Dual Cortex-R52 on an MPS3, as documented in Arm Application Note AN536 + Differences between QEMU and real hardware: - AN385/AN386 remapping of low 16K of memory to either ZBT SSRAM1 or to @@ -45,6 +52,30 @@ Differences between QEMU and real hardware: flash, but only as simple ROM, so attempting to rewrite the flash from the guest will fail - QEMU does not model the USB controller in MPS3 boards +- AN536 does not support runtime control of CPU reset and halt via + the SCC CFG_REG0 register. +- AN536 does not support enabling or disabling the flash and ATCM + interfaces via the SCC CFG_REG1 register. +- AN536 does not support setting of the initial vector table + base address via the SCC CFG_REG6 and CFG_REG7 register config, + and does not provide a mechanism for specifying these values at + startup, so all guest images must be built to start from TCM + (i.e. to expect the interrupt vector base at 0 from reset). +- AN536 defaults to only creating a single CPU; this is the equivalent + of the way the real FPGA image usually runs with the second Cortex-R52 + held in halt via the initial SCC CFG_REG0 register setting. You can + create the second CPU with ``-smp 2``; both CPUs will then start + execution immediately on startup. + +Note that for the AN536 the first UART is accessible only by +CPU0, and the second UART is accessible only by CPU1. The +first UART accessible shared between both CPUs is the third +UART. Guest software might therefore be built to use either +the first UART or the third UART; if you don't see any output +from the UART you are looking at, try one of the others. +(Even if the AN536 machine is started with a single CPU and so +no "CPU1-only UART", the UART numbering remains the same, +with the third UART being the first of the shared ones.) Machine-specific options """""""""""""""""""""""" -- 2.34.1
