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  • ARMv7-A: What is "Fault not on a stage 2 translation for a stage 1 translation table walk"?

    Hi all,

    I'm trying to boot Linux on my hypervisor like environment.

    In booting process, unexpected hyper trap was occurred and became hyp mode.

    In hyp mode, the Hyp Syndrome Register (HSR) value is 0x93830006.

    According to the manual, this meant "Fault…

  • system requirements

    what are the minimum hardware requirements to setup wifi on arm-7 processors.

  • MRS/MSR (Banked register)

    What can be accessed by MRS/MSR in user mode?

    In ARMv7-A/R ARM there is an encoding for ARMv7VE (A1):

    B9.3.10      MSR (Banked register)
    cond  0 0 0 1 0 R 0 0        M1      …

  • Still more stupid questions on Cortex-A7 instruction set

    I've beem constructing a list of Cortex-A7 ARM-instructions, and there are some questions I haven't found

    an answer to in ARMv7-A/R ARM Issue C.

    How is this special?

    LDRD<c>_<Rt>,_<Rt2>,_<label>_LDRD<c>_<Rt>,_<Rt2>,_[PC,_#-0]_Special_case…

  • Questions about Generic Timer in ARMv8

    When two clusters(Big/Little) exist in SoC, the timer can be used to support Synchronization between two clusters.

    But How to understand "Synchronization", anybody can tell me some typical application context? I am really confused......

    And, if…

  • Funny asymmetry with banked register names

    Is there a reason why banked registers SP and LR can't be accessed as r13_<mode> or r14_<mode>, but

    one has to use SP_<mode> or LR_<mode> instead? It makes macros and inline assembly difficult.

    In document (ARMv7-A/R ARM Issue…

  • Cortex-A7 instruction lists

    Just in case someone needs them, I made ARM and Thumb mode lists of Cortex-A7 instructions (because I didn't find them in the net).

    They are generated from ARMv7-A/R ARM with a simple AWK-script and then edited, so they may contain errors.

    The lists…

  • ARM instruction set pseudo instructions

    Does anyone know if there is a list of ARM instruction set pseudo instructions?

    Or better yet, an instruction list like PPC's, where there is a list of 'true instructions' with mnemonics and

    another list of "simplified mnemonics" (=pseudo instructions…

  • How to access the memory mapped debug registers?

    Now that the funny PABT-behaviour is found to be (probably) caused ny debug state, I'd like to exit debug state before return from PABT exception. The ARM v7-A/R ARM says that I should write RRQ to DBGDRCR, but it seems that in Cortex-A7 it's not accessible…

  • Different performance in HYP and SVC mode ARMv7A?

    I'm doing some testing on Exynos5422 SoC which implements big.LITTLE architecture (A7 + A15), I'm running bare metal application which starts in HYP mode. I haven't returned from HYP mode by accident and then software delay which I implemented by simple…

  • Non-Cacheable memory and DMA on armv7a

    Hi !

    Consider a micro-kernel (not Linux) where device drivers are userland applications (PL0).

    We would like to use DMA based device, like an Ethernet controller for example. To this mean, the micro kernel allocate some memory to the user application…

  • Trustzone FIQ latency measurement When security extension is enabled

    Hello Guys,

    Please refer below attached image. as shown in this image i want to measure the different latencies in my Trustzone based application.

    Here is the list of measurements which i want to perform.   

    1) FIQ latency when RTOS runs and FIQ occurs …

  • I cannot write the sp register in the monitor mode

    I use a Cortex-A7 board and write start up code.

    I try to use Security Extension.

    I use `smc` instruction and make cpu mode monitor mode.

    In the monitor handler, I tried to changed stack pointer value for calling other functions.

    But after execute `ldr sp…

  • A Walk Through the Cortex-A Mobile Roadmap

    Chinese Version中文版

    Introduction

    The ARM Cortex-A mobile application processor product line spans several generations and three main product tiers. Developers and SoC designers experienced with one or more of the newer ARM ARM Processors benefit from an…

  • High efficiency, midrange or high performance Cortex-A - What is the difference?

    A question that I am asked many times is – what is the fundamental difference between the high efficiency, mid range and the high performance application processors in the ARM Cortex family?

    The simple answer to this is – the power budget…

  • The Top 5 Things to Know about Cortex-A7

    The ARM Cortex-A7 MPCore processor is the most energy efficient application processor that ARM has ever developed and has dramatically extended ARM’s low-power leadership in entry level smart phones, tablets and other high end mobile devices.  Here…

  • ARMv7-A - Power to the People

    Recently, I wrote an article called “Navigating the Cortex Maze” (Navigating the Cortex Maze) That was intended as an easy way-in to the ARM processor range, covering Cortex-A (architecture ARMv7-A), Cortex-R (ARMv7-R) and Cortex-M (ARMv7…