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Ackbar Ackbar
over 7 years ago
Note: This was originally posted on 9th July 2009 at http://forums.arm.com
Hello,
I'm currently trying to change the frequency of a PXA270 processor, the system I'm working on is a Linux OS, and I would like to write a code that allows an user to change the frequency, to do so I need to write in a register of coprocessor 14. According to ARM documentation i need to use MRC/MCR instructions, I tried but I got an error : "Illegal instruction".
So I think I need to switch to supervisor mode, it seems that I could do it using SWI but even after reading some documentation I don't know how I should implement this.
I'm not even sure that what I want to do is possible, but if it is, does someone have any idea of the code I should write to switch to supervisor mode and use MRC or MCR instruction?
Thanks,
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Martin Weidmann
over 7 years ago
Note: This was originally posted on 9th July 2009 at
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When in User mode the only way to switch to a different (priviledged) mode is by taking an exception. For example by excuting a SWI/SVC instruction to trigger a Supervisor call exception. On a bare metal system you would have to provide a vector table and exception handlers. The handlers could deal with the accesses to CP14. But...
As you are running under an OS, the OS will handle the exceptions. I suspect you will have to write a Linux kernel driver to control the frequency changing. Then your application uses the driver as an interface. Not a Linux developer, so can't say how you'd do this.
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Note: This was originally posted on 9th July 2009 at
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When in User mode the only way to switch to a different (priviledged) mode is by taking an exception. For example by excuting a SWI/SVC instruction to trigger a Supervisor call exception. On a bare metal system you would have to provide a vector table and exception handlers. The handlers could deal with the accesses to CP14. But...
As you are running under an OS, the OS will handle the exceptions. I suspect you will have to write a Linux kernel driver to control the frequency changing. Then your application uses the driver as an interface. Not a Linux developer, so can't say how you'd do this.
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