Changes between Version 3 and Version 4 of arch_info

Timestamp:

Jul 20, 2016, 1:40:02 PM (8 years ago)

Author:

alain

Comment:

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arch_info

@@ -30 +30 @@
 
 For ALMOS-MK, the target hardware architecture is described in the binary file '''arch_info.bin'''.
-This file is loaded from disk by the ALMOS-MK boot-loader. This architecture specific boot-loader  uses this information to build one '''boot_info_t''' structure in each cluster. This generic  '''boot_info_structure''' is the hardware abstraction used by the ALMOS kernel to build in each cluster its own representation of the hardware.
+This file is loaded from disk by the ALMOS-MK boot-loader. This boot-loader  uses the informations found in '''arch_info.bin''' to build one '''boot_info_t''' structure in each cluster. This generic  '''boot_info_t''' structure is the hardware abstraction used by the ALMOS kernel to build in each cluster its own representation of the hardware.
 
-=== 2.1) General hypothesis ===
+=== 2.1) General assumptions ===
 
  * Each cluster contains a variable number of cores, a variable number of peripherals, and a physical memory bank.
@@ -52 +52 @@
 An adressable device can be a physical memory bank, or a peripheral containing addressable registers.
 
-The BLOB is organised as the concatenation of a fixed size header and 4 variable size arrays of fixed size objects:
+The '''arch_info.bin''' BLOB is organised as the concatenation of a fixed size header, and 4 variable size arrays of fixed size objects:
  *  archinfo_cluster_t  cluster[]  
  *  archinfo_core_t     core[]  
@@ -58 +58 @@
  *  archinfo_irq_t      irq[]   
 
-All these structures are described in the file [source:almost_work/tools/arch_info/arch_info.h arch_info.h].
+These five C structures are described in the file [source:almost_work/tools/arch_info/arch_info.h arch_info.h].