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Add new ARMops. Add macros which map the ARMv7/v8 cache/TLB maintenance mnemonics (as featured in recent ARM ARMs) to MCR ops.

Detail:
  - Docs/HAL/ARMop_API - Document the new ARMops. These ops are intended to help with future work (DMA without OS_Memory 0 "make temp uncacheable", and minimising cache maintenance when unmapping pages) and aren't in use just yet.
  - hdr/Copro15ops - Add new macros for ARMv7+ which map the mnemonics seen in recent ARM ARMs to the corresponding MCR ops. This should make things easier when cross-referencing docs and reduce the risk of typos.
  - hdr/KernelWS - Shuffle kernel workspace a bit to make room for the new ARMops
  - hdr/OSMisc - Expose new ARMops via OS_MMUControl 2
  - s/ARMops - Implement the new ARMops. Change the ARMv7+ ARMops to use the new mnemonic macros. Also get rid of myDSB / myISB usage from ARMv7+ code paths; use DSB/ISB/etc. directly to ensure correct behaviour
  - s/HAL - Mnemonic + ISB/DSB updates. Change software RAM clear to do 16 bytes at a time for kernel workspace instead of 32 to allow the kernel workspace tweaks to work.
Admin:
  Binary diff shows that mnemonics map to the original MCR ops correctly
  Note: Raspberry Pi builds will now emit lots of warnings due to increased DSB/ISB instruction use. However it should be safe to ignore these as they should only be present in v7+ code paths.
  Note: New ARMops haven't been tested yet, will be disabled (or at least hidden from user code) in a future checkin


Version 5.68. Tagged as 'Kernel-5_68'

Detail:
  hdr/Copro15ops:
    - Fixed incorrect encodings of ISH/ISHST variants of DMB/DSB instructions
  s/ARMops, s/HAL, hdr/KernelWS:
    - Replace the ARMv7 cache maintenance code with the example code from the ARMv7 ARM. This allows it to deal with caches with non power-of-two set/way counts, and caches with only one way.
    - Fixed Analyse_WB_CR7_Lx to use the cache level ID register to work out how many caches to query instead of just looking for a 0 result from CSSIDR.
    - Also only look for 7 cache levels, since level 8 doesn't exist according to the ARMv7 ARM.
  s/NewReset:
    - Removed some incorrect/misleading debug output
Admin:
  Tested on rev A2 BB-xM


Version 5.35, 4.79.2.98.2.51. Tagged as 'Kernel-5_35-4_79_2_98_2_51'

Detail:
  A whole mass of changes to add high processor vectors + zero page relocation support to the Cortex branch of the kernel
  At the moment the code can only cope with two ZeroPage locations, &0 and &FFFF0000. But with a bit more tweaking those restrictions can probably be lifted, allowing ZeroPage to be hidden at almost any address (assuming it's fixed at compile time). If I've done my job right, these restrictions should all be enforced by asserts.
  There's a new option, HiProcVecs, in hdr/Options to control whether high processor vectors are used. When enabling it and building a ROM, remember:
  * FPEmulator needs to be built with the FPEAnchor=High option specified in the components file (not FPEAnchorType=High as my FPEmulator commit comments suggested)
  * ShareFS needs unplugging/removing since it can't cope with it yet
  * Iyonix users will need to use the latest ROOL boot sequence, to ensure the softloaded modules are compatible (OMAP, etc. don't really softload much so they're OK with older sequences)
  * However VProtect also needs patching to fix a nasty bug there - http://www.riscosopen.org/tracker/tickets/294
  The only other notable thing I can think of is that the ProcessTransfer code in s/ARM600 & s/VMSAv6 is disabled if high processor vectors are in use (it's fairly safe to say that code is obsolete in HAL builds anyway?)
  Fun challenge for my successor: Try setting ZeroPage to &FFFF00FF (or similar) so its value can be loaded with MVN instead of LDR. Then use positive/negative address offsets to access the contents.
  File changes:
  - hdr/ARMops - Modified ARMop macro to take the ZeroPage pointer as a parameter instead of 'zero'
  - hdr/Copro15ops - Corrected $quick handling in myISB macro
  - hdr/Options - Added ideal setting for us to use for HiProcVecs
  - s/AMBControl/allocate, s/AMBControl/growp, s/AMBControl/mapslot, s/AMBControl/memmap, s/AMBControl/service, s/AMBControl/shrinkp, s/Arthur2, s/Arthur3, s/ArthurSWIs, s/ChangeDyn, s/ExtraSWIs, s/HAL, s/HeapMan, s/Kernel, s/MemInfo, s/Middle, s/ModHand, s/MoreSWIs, s/MsgCode, s/NewIRQs, s/NewReset, s/Oscli, s/PMF/buffer, s/PMF/IIC, s/PMF/i2cutils, s/PMF/key, s/PMF/mouse, s/PMF/osbyte, s/PMF/oseven, s/PMF/osinit, s/PMF/osword, s/PMF/oswrch, s/SWINaming, s/Super1, s/SysComms, s/TickEvents, s/Utility, s/vdu/vdu23, s/vdu/vdudriver, s/vdu/vdugrafl, s/vdu/vdugrafv, s/vdu/vdupalxx, s/vdu/vdupointer, s/vdu/vduswis, s/vdu/vduwrch - Lots of updates to deal with zero page relocation
  - s/ARM600 - UseProcessTransfer option. Zero page relocation support. Deleted pre-HAL ClearPhysRAM code to tidy the file up a bit.
  - s/ARMops - Zero page relocation support. Set CPUFlag_HiProcVecs when high vectors are in use.
  - s/KbdResPC - Disable compilation of dead code
  - s/VMSAv6 - UseProcessTransfer option. Zero page relocation support.
Admin:
  Tested with OMAP & Iyonix ROM softloads, both with high & low zero page.
  High zero page hasn't had extensive testing, but boot sequence + ROM apps seem to work.


Version 5.35, 4.79.2.98.2.48. Tagged as 'Kernel-5_35-4_79_2_98_2_48'

Detail:
  Makefile - Added hdr.Variables to the C header export list
  hdr/ARMops, s/ARMops - Added ARM1176JZF-S to the list of known CPUs
  s/ARMops - Fix unaligned memory access in ARM_PrintProcessorType
  hdr/Copro15ops, s/ARMops, s/HAL, s/VMSAv6, s/AMBControl/memmap - Fixed all myDSB/myISB/etc. macro instances to specify a temp register, so that they work properly when building an ARMv6 version of the kernel
Admin:
  Fixes build errors with the latest Draw module.
  Should also allow the kernel to work properly with the new S3C6410 port.
  ARMv6 version builds OK, but no other builds or runtime tests have been made.


Version 5.35, 4.79.2.98.2.38. Tagged as 'Kernel-5_35-4_79_2_98_2_38'

Version 5.35, 4.79.2.98.2.29. Tagged as 'Kernel-5_35-4_79_2_98_2_29'

Update Cortex kernel to use correct instruction/memory barriers and to perform branch target predictor maintenance. Plus tweak default CMOS settings.

Detail:
  hdr/Copro15ops - Added myISB, myDSB, myDMB macros to provide barrier functionality on ARMv6+
  s/ARMops, s/HAL, s/VMSAv6, s/AMBControl/memmap - Correct barrier operations are now performed on ARMv6+ following CP15 writes. Branch predictors are now also maintained properly.
  s/NewReset - Change default CMOS settings so number of CDFS drives is 0 in Cortex builds. Fixes rogue CDFS icon on iconbar.
Admin:
  Tested on rev C2 beagleboard


Version 5.35, 4.79.2.98.2.27. Tagged as 'Kernel-5_35-4_79_2_98_2_27'

Add support for Cortex cache type. Extend ARM_Analyse to, where appropriate, use CPU feature registers to identify CPU capabilities.

Detail:
  s/ARMops - Support for Cortex multi-level cache (CT_ctype_WB_CR7_Lx). New ARM_Analyse_Fancy to identify CPU capabilities using feature registers.
  s/HAL - Modify pre-ARMop cache code to handle Cortex-syle caches.
  s/MemInfo - Replace ARM_flush_TLB macro call with appropriate ARMop to provide Cortex compatability
  hdr/ARMops - Update list of ARM architectures
  hdr/CoPro15ops - Deprecate ARM_flush_* macros for HAL kernels, as they are no longer capable of flushing all cache types. ARMops should be used instead.
  hdr/KernelWS - Add storage space for multi-level cache properties required for new cache cleaning code.
Admin:
  Tested under qemu-omap3. Still unable to verify on real hardware due to lack of appropriate MMU code. However new OMAP3 HAL code that uses similar cache management functions appears to work fine on real hardware.


Version 5.35, 4.79.2.98.2.2. Tagged as 'Kernel-5_35-4_79_2_98_2_2'

In the No26bitCode case (ie when abort handlers are entered in ABT32 mode), if lazy task swapping was enabled and a data abort occurred that was not a page translation fault, then the code in AMB_LazyFixUp to map in the whole application slot was being circumvented, leading to problems for abort handlers in application space because r14_abt was corrupted by any abort due to accessing the abort handler itself. The test of the FSR (to compensate for the FAR being unusable for external aborts) which prompted the circumvention has therefore been moved inside AMB_LazyFixup.

Also now preserves the FSR and FAR across AMB_LazyFixUp, so they are now
visible from application abort handlers if desired.

Version 5.35, 4.79.2.50. Tagged as 'Kernel-5_35-4_79_2_50'

Ursula. Quite a hairy code merge really, so let's hope it is
worth it to someone. What you get (back after 2 or 3 years):
- much more efficient for largish numbers of DAs (relevance
  to current build = approx 0)
- fancy reason codes to support fast update of
  Switcher bar display (relevance = 0)
- support for clamped maximum area sizes, to avoid address
  space exhaustion with big memory (relevance = 0)
- better implementation of shrinkable DAs, performance
  wise (if lots of DAs, relevance = approx 0)
- support for 'Sparse' DAs. Holey dynamic areas, Batman!
  (relevance, go on someone use the darned things)
Moderately development tested on HAL/32bit ARM9 desktop.
Note the Switcher should be compiled to use the new
reason codes 6&7, for fabled desktop builds.

Also, during this work, so I could see the wood for the
trees, redid some source code clean up, removing pre-Medusa
stuff (like I did about 3 years ago on Ursula, sigh). That's
why loads of source files have changed. The new DA stuff
is confined pretty much to hdr.KernelWS and s.ChangeDyn.

Ta.

Version 5.35, 4.79.2.38. Tagged as 'Kernel-5_35-4_79_2_38'

More stuff. Up to the desktop now; cache on, working keyboard. Some source restructuring to start to make splitting it up into several object files more feasible.

* Added ARM_IMB and ARM_IMBRange SWIs as recommended by ARMv5.
* Some early prototype HAL bits popped in - a lot of source restructuring still
  to come.
* New debug target creates an AIF image with debug information, and translates
  this into an ASCII object file for the 16702B logic analyser.

Version 5.35, 4.79.2.1. Tagged as 'Kernel-5_35-4_79_2_1'

  RPCEm update.
* Register allocation in default ErrorV handler fixed - problems occured when
  callbacks were triggered on way out.
* OS_Byte 19 didn't manipulate interrupt disable flag correctly in 26-bit
  builds.
* Stray bit of debugging left in sprite code many years ago removed.

Version 5.23. Not tagged

Details:
  The Kernel will now compile to produce a pure 32-bit system if No26bitCode is
  set to TRUE.
  If No26bitCode is FALSE, then the Kernel will be a standard 26-bit Kernel,
  although some internal changes have taken place to minimise compile
  switches between the two cases. See Docs.32bit for more technical info.

  The hardest part was the flood-fill...

Other changes:
  Pointer shape changes now take place on the next VSync, rather than actually
  WAITING for the VSync. Turning the Hourglass on shouldn't slow your machine
  down by 5% now :)

  Lots of really crusty pre-IOMD code removed.

Admin:
  Tested in 32 and 26-bit forms in a limited desktop build. Basically, this
  will need to see a lot of use to iron out difficulties. I'd like anyone who
  has a non-frozen project to at least attempt using this Kernel.

Version 5.23. Tagged as 'Kernel-5_23'

  Ensured that M_Phoebe builds set UtilityModule version to 4.00
Detail:
  The softload utility relies on the existence of the extra reason codes
    to OS_ReadSysInfo introduced in Ursula.  The main kernel now supports
    these too (they are simply interfaces to read kernel capabilities and
    configuration - eg. addresses and sizes of UND and SVC mode stacks)
  Avoid OS_ReadSysInfo 9 - ROL have used it for reading the ROM personality
    information (and it's not in our kernel)
  Added some of the new macros into Copro15ops required by the ABT dump
    area code (returned by OS_ReadSysInfo 7) and added the code into ARM600
    to store abort information there.
Admin:
  Required by softload utility for Ursula builds.
  Tested on Risc PC.

Version 5.15. Tagged as 'Kernel-5_15'