SIM port for the OpenRISC architecture Authors: Stafford Horne Peter Gavin # Guide to Code # We have tried to comment on the functions in the simulator implementation as best as we can. Here we provide some general architecture comments for reference. Please let me know if there is a better place for these kind of docs. The or1k sim uses the CGEN system to generate most of the simulator code. There is some documentation for CGEN on sourceware.org here: https://sourceware.org/cgen/docs/cgen.html In the binutils-gdb project there are several files which get combined to make up the CGEN simulator. The process for how those are built can be seen in `or1k/Makefile.in`. But the main files are: MAIN sim/common/nrun.c - the main() calls sim_open(), sim_resume() and others sim/or1k/sim-if.c - implements sim_open() and others used by nrun when envoking sim in gdb, gdb uses sim_open() directly CGEN input and generated files cpu/or1k*.cpu - these define the hardware, model and semantics sim/or1k/arch.c - generated defines sim_machs array sim/or1k/cpu.c - *generated defines register setters and getters sim/or1k/decode.c - generated defines instruction decoder sim/or1k/model.c - generated defines instruction cycles sim/or1k/sem.c - *generated defines instruction operation semantics sim/or1k/sem-switch.c - *generated ditto but as a switch ENGINE runs decode execute loop sim/common/cgen-* - cgen implementation helpers sim/common/cgen-run.c - implements sim_resume() which runs the engine sim/common/genmloop.sh - helper script to generate mloop.c engine the decode, execute loop sim/or1k/mloop.in - openRISC implementation of mloop parts EXTRAS callbacks from sem* to c code sim/or1k/or1k.c - implements some instructions in c (not cgen schema) sim/or1k/traps.c - exception handler For each sim architecture we have choices for how the mloop is implemented. The OpenRISC engine uses scache pbb (pseudo-basic-block) instruction extraction with both fast (sem-switch.c based) and full (sem.c based) implementations. The fast and full modes are switch via the command line options to the `run` command, i.e. --trace-insn will run in full mode. # Building # Below are some details on how we build and test the openrisc sim. ## TOOLCHAIN ## This may not be needed as binutils contains most/all of the utilities required. But if needed, get this toolchain (this is the newlib binary, others also available) https://github.com/openrisc/or1k-gcc/releases/download/or1k-5.4.0-20170218/or1k-elf-5.4.0-20170218.tar.xz If you want to build that from scratch look to: https://github.com/openrisc/newlib/blob/scripts/build.sh ## GDB ## In a directory along side binutils-gdb source mkdir build-or1k-elf-gdb cd build-or1k-elf-gdb ../binutils-gdb/configure --target=or1k-elf \ --prefix=/opt/shorne/software/or1k \ --disable-itcl \ --disable-tk \ --disable-tcl \ --disable-winsup \ --disable-gdbtk \ --disable-libgui \ --disable-rda \ --disable-sid \ --with-sysroot \ --disable-newlib \ --disable-libgloss \ --disable-gas \ --disable-ld \ --disable-binutils \ --disable-gprof \ --with-system-zlib # make gdb, sim make # test sim cd sim make check The sim creates a binary simulator too, you can run binaries such as hello world with: or1k-elf-gcc hello.c ./or1k/run --trace-insn ./a.out