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13 years agoCan I upload Nios2 SMP system?
Hi, guys & Altera corp. I'm now making a Nios2 SMP system for my research purpose. It's still a little bit buggy and slow, but I succeeded to boot Linux kernel and execute bash.
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13 years agoIf you can do the locked read-write avalon bus cycle you should be able to generate one from a custom instruction - except it would have to use a separate avalon master and so bypass the data cache.
Actually you'll have no cache coherencey either - very grim! You'd have to use an external data cache. I've thought that the nios cpu isn't much more than a great heap of mux. My guess is that RA and RB are always read, pipeline stalls (re-execute) if a write to RA is pending, and for RB if the low two instruction bits differ (NFI why the instructions aren't organised so this is a single bit!). This gives the instrcution three 32bit words to play with, write-back to RB or RC is dependant on the decoded instruction. That makes me think that the readra/readrb bits of the custom instruction are ignored - but I've not done any experiments.