Hello Bob, On Wed, Mar 08, 2023 at 06:03:29PM +0000, Robert Stewart wrote: > I'm about to start to bring up a base-hw implementation on an Arm Cortex A-7 > quad core Allwinner H3 board. Has this already been done by anyone? > > The A7 is "similar" to the A9 with the addition of LPAE. As opposed to the > A9, it has GIC v2 and an SCU with an L2 Cache tightly coupled to it, mean > that you can turn on or off the cache and that's all the control you have. > > It looks like the Cortex A15 implementation already in base-hw would be a > good model to follow to get the A7 running.
I think you're right the A9 is much more similar to the A15 than to A8 or A9. I vaguely remember that someone in the past used the A15 base-hw implementation without modifications to drive a Cortex A7 CPU, but I cannot exactly remember the context anymore. Regards Stefan > > Bob Stewart > > Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg> > _______________________________________________ > Genode users mailing list > users@lists.genode.org > https://lists.genode.org/listinfo/users -- Stefan Kalkowski Genode labs https://github.com/skalk | https://genode.org _______________________________________________ Genode users mailing list users@lists.genode.org https://lists.genode.org/listinfo/users
