update to ri5cy core interrupt system and toolchain

[lightning_fingers]

Hello!

I am investigating using the ri5cy core for a commercial application.
Quite some time ago I looked into the ri5cy core via the Embecosm githubu fork:
https://github.com/embecosm/ri5cy

This seems to (now) be a quite old version of the core (32 interrupt inputs, much different csr implementation).

So, I've updated my core payload with the latest ri5cy rtl build.

I now have problems with my prototype interrupt code.
In C I have:


in "main()" {
    set_csr (0x300, 0x00000009);            //enable interrupts?
    write_csr(0x305, my_isr);               // isr address?
   
    // big long delay
    for (int i=0;i<10000;i++) asm("NOP");

}

void __attribute__ ((interrupt())) my_isr (){
    *simresult = (unsigned short int) 0xF111;    // flag result
}

which gives me:
00000300 <my_isr>:
 300: ff010113           addi sp,sp,-16
 304: 00f12423           sw a5,8(sp)
 308: 00e12623           sw a4,12(sp)
 30c: 40002703           lw a4,1024(zero) # 400 <simresult>
 310: 0000f7b7           lui a5,0xf
 314: 11178793           addi a5,a5,273 # f111 <_end+0xece5>
 318: 00f72023           sw a5,0(a4)
 31c: 00c12703           lw a4,12(sp)
 320: 00812783           lw a5,8(sp)
 324: 01010113           addi sp,sp,16
 328: 10000073           eret

The compiler is inserting the correct isr handling code......
But when simulated with the latest ri5cy core I get:
#  - DGB - write 0 into CTRL
#        2465870000 ps: Illegal instruction (core 0) at PC 0x00000328:
#        2469762000 ps: Illegal instruction (core 0) at PC 0x00000328:

I read in the riscv documentation that eret should now probably be an mret.
(At present I am using the embecosm modified toolchain (gcc).)

where can I download the "official" build gcc build tools for the latest ri5cy core (including all of the ri5cy additions like the hardware loop functionality)?

Many thanks in advance

[lightning_fingers]

in "main()" {
    set_csr (0x300, 0x00000009);            //enable interrupts?
    write_csr(0x305, my_isr);               // isr address?
   
    // big long delay
    for (int i=0;i<10000;i++) asm("NOP");

}

void __attribute__ ((interrupt())) my_isr (){
    *simresult = (unsigned short int) 0xF111;    // flag result
}

which gives me:
00000300 <my_isr>:
 300: ff010113           addi sp,sp,-16
 304: 00f12423           sw a5,8(sp)
 308: 00e12623           sw a4,12(sp)
 30c: 40002703           lw a4,1024(zero) # 400 <simresult>
 310: 0000f7b7           lui a5,0xf
 314: 11178793           addi a5,a5,273 # f111 <_end+0xece5>
 318: 00f72023           sw a5,0(a4)
 31c: 00c12703           lw a4,12(sp)
 320: 00812783           lw a5,8(sp)
 324: 01010113           addi sp,sp,16
 328: 10000073           eret

The compiler is inserting the correct isr handling code......
But when simulated with the latest ri5cy core I get:
#  - DGB - write 0 into CTRL
#        2465870000 ps: Illegal instruction (core 0) at PC 0x00000328:
#        2469762000 ps: Illegal instruction (core 0) at PC 0x00000328:

I've managed work around this version of the tool chain I am using by hacking the memory image that I read into my memory models in my RTL stimulus env.

i.e. replace any opcodes eret (32'h10000073) with mret (32'h30200073)

this is obviously a very short term fix, but does at least allow me to continue this particular RTL simulation.
With this hack, the simulation executes as expected.

[lightning_fingers]

anyone?

where can I download/build the latest software tools for the latest RI5CY core?

thanks

[lightning_fingers]

anyone?

where can I download/build the latest software tools for the latest RI5CY core?

thanks

I've been in contact via twitter, and got a reply, suggesting:
https://github.com/pulp-platform/pulp-ri...-toolchain

yet when I build this toolchain, I cant use the -march=IMXpulpv2 switch when trying to compile some c code, like:
riscv32-unknown-elf-gcc -nostdlib -nostartfiles -Tlink.ld -O3 -march=IMXpulpv2 -o hello.o hello.c

I get:
Fatal error: -march=IMXpulpv2: ISA string must begin with rv32 or rv64

I built the tool chain with:
./configure  --with-arch=rv32imc --with-cmodel=medlow --enable-multilib

anyone have any ideas how I can build the latest ri5cy toolchain then compile some c code which will use the latest ri5cy hardware additions/extensions?

note: the pulp-platform tools emit perfectly fine riscv 32 bit code, I need to know how to generate ri5cy code.

many thanks

[lightning_fingers]

anyone?

where can I download/build the latest software tools for the latest RI5CY core?

thanks

I've been in contact via twitter, and got a reply, suggesting:
https://github.com/pulp-platform/pulp-ri...-toolchain

yet when I build this toolchain, I cant use the -march=IMXpulpv2 switch when trying to compile some c code, like:
riscv32-unknown-elf-gcc -nostdlib -nostartfiles -Tlink.ld -O3 -march=IMXpulpv2 -o hello.o hello.c

I get:
Fatal error: -march=IMXpulpv2: ISA string must begin with rv32 or rv64

I built the tool chain with:
./configure  --with-arch=rv32imc --with-cmodel=medlow --enable-multilib

anyone have any ideas how I can build the latest ri5cy toolchain then compile some c code which will use the latest ri5cy hardware additions/extensions?

note: the pulp-platform tools emit perfectly fine riscv 32 bit code, I need to know how to generate ri5cy code.

many thanks

through trial and error I found the arch string required is march=rv32imxpulpv3

this then generates code I can see uses the hardware loop extensions.