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Microwatt may have firmware that places data in r3, which was used to detect microwatt vs powernv. This breaks the existing probing of the UART type in this powerpc port. Instead build only the appropriate UART into the firmware, selected by passing the option UART=potato or UART=lpc_serial to the Makefile. A future enhancement would be to parse the device tree and configure MicroPython based on the settings. |
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| frozentest.mpy | ||
| frozentest.py | ||
| head.S | ||
| main.c | ||
| Makefile | ||
| mpconfigport.h | ||
| mphalport.h | ||
| powerpc.lds | ||
| qstrdefsport.h | ||
| README.md | ||
| uart_lpc_serial.c | ||
| uart_lpc_serial.h | ||
| uart_potato.c | ||
| uart_potato.h | ||
| unistd.h | ||
The PowerPC port that runs on microwatt and qemu
This port is intended to be a minimal MicroPython port that runs in QEMU, microwatt simulator with ghdl or microwatt on Xilinx FPGA with potato UART.
Building
By default the port will be built with the potato uart for microwatt:
$ make
To instead build for a machine with LPC serial, such as QEMU powernv:
$ make UART=lpc_serial
Cross compilation for POWERPC
If you need to cross compilers you'll want to grab a powerpc64le compiler (not powerpc or powerpc64).
On Ubuntu (18.04) you'll want:
$ apt install gcc-powerpc64le-linux-gnu
(Use CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc64le-linux-gnu-)
If your distro doesn't have cross compilers, you can get cross compilers here:
- https://toolchains.bootlin.com/ (use CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc64le-buildroot-linux-gnu-)
(Avoid musl libc as it defines __assert_fail() differently to glibc which breaks the micropython powerpc code)
Then do:
$ make CROSS_COMPILE=<compiler prefix>
Building will produce the build/firmware.bin file which can be used QEMU or microwatt.
To run in QEMU use:
$ ./qemu-system-ppc64 -M powernv -cpu POWER9 -nographic -bios build/firmware.bin