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    From: "Brian Adams" <brian.adams@a...>
    Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 07:40:15 -0400
    Subject: RE: [openrisc] Success!
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    All,
    
      We were getting the same thing when we tried uCLinux out here.
    (running CPU and SRAM at 30Mhz)  It did turn out to be the timer.  In
    the default include/ams-or32/system.h SYS_TICK_PER is set to 0x10000.
    If I understand it correctly, this is programmed into the tick timer to
    generate an interrupt every time it counts from SYS_TICK_PER to 0.  Each
    interrupt constitutes 1 CPU 'tick'. (don't really know what to call it)
    Anyway, there are 100 'ticks' per second. (because HZ is defined to be
    100 in include/asm-or32/param.h(?))  So you have to calculate
    SYS_TICK_PER so the timing works out correctly.  Basically I guess it
    is...
    
       SYS_TICK_PER=<CPU Frequency>/HZ
    
      Setting it correctly for my frequency 30Mhz, (without cache) made the
    MIPS go from 0.81 (which is the minimum allowed by the algorithm, I
    think) to 2.4ish.  When I enable to cache it jumps to 14.89. (But then
    promptly hangs, bummer.  I'll be looking at that today.)
    
      You probably all knew this already, but I have been working on
    figuring this very thing out over the past couple days, so I thought I
    would share for the uCLinux impaired like myself.
    
    Brian 
    
    -----Original Message-----
    From: owner-openrisc@o... [mailto:owner-openrisc@o...]
    On Behalf Of Damjan Lampret
    Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 6:00 AM
    To: openrisc@o...
    Subject: Re: [openrisc] Success!
    
    So far nobody seriously looked at the bogomips, I think it gets
    calculated
    incorrectly (at 25MHz with caches enabled it says something like 2
    bogomips
    which is kind of stupid ...). Probably somebody would have to check the
    timer...
    
    regards,
    Damjan
    
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: "Damon Brantley" <brantley@m...>
    To: <openrisc@o...>
    Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 7:16 AM
    Subject: [openrisc] Success!
    
    
    > Just thought I would let everyone know that I have finally gotten
    uClinux
    > to run on my Digilent board with a 300K Spartan. I did have to build
    an 8M
    > DRAM board since the Digilent board does not have any memory.
    > Basically I have synthesized the openrisc cpu with no cache, no
    > multiplier, the uart 16550, a trimmed down traffic cop and an sdram
    > controller that I wrote. Gate utilization is currently at 95%
    according to
    > xst, but I think there are a few unused bits and pieces I can remove
    to
    get
    > the utilization below 90%.
    > The cpu is clocking at 25Mhz and the dram at 50Mhz. The BogoMips are
    at
    > .81 which is pretty abysmal, but the slowness is due to the  dram
    > controller. I wrote it for simplicity rather than efficiency.
    > If there is interest I can organize and post my work into cvs.
    > This configuration will not operate standalone, but if someone wanted
    a
    > low budget way to experiment with uclinux on openrisc, it is possible.
    >
    > 
    
    
    
    
    
    

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    Re: [openrisc] Success!Damjan Lampret

     
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