On Mon, 2022-01-31 at 04:19 +0000, lkcl wrote:

quoted

How do you even read the SYSCON parameter for frequency?

SYSCON is just a term for a memory-mapped wishbone ROM which contains
a crude easily-decoded binary form of devicetree.

Talking of which, if we're going to make use if it (we should), we
probably need to ensure it's also ported to microwatt on LiteX. Though
LiteX has another issue in that it puts MMIO elsewhere iirc.

That or we rely 100% on LiteX having a good DT (and thus use a
different platform for it).

when you read 0xc0001000 (say) its contents tell you the clock speed.



at 0xc0001008 is the number of UARTs.

0xc0001010 contains the UART0 speed or well you can see the real
contents syscon.vhdl



it is _real_ basic but contains everything that

a cold-start BIOS needs to know, such as "do i even have DRAM, do i
have an SPI Flash i can read a second

stage bootloader from" etc etc



https://github.com/antonblanchard/microwatt/blob/master/syscon.vhdl



Paul said it was always planned to do reading of these params, the
entries in devicetree are a temporary hack.



l.

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