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This supports all the load/store instructions, including FPA & VFP/NEON.
Most instructions are handled directly via the base version of the
AbortTrap API that was first implemented in RISC OS Select. However, to
properly cope with LDREX/STREX, and future support for prefetch aborts,
the API has been extended to allow the kernel to request that a block of
memory is mapped in with certain permissions. For LDREX/STREX the kernel
will then rewind the PC so that the instruction can be retried directly.

Test code in Dev/AbortTrap exists in order to allow checking of all
major functionality, along with code for building the code in a
softloadable module for easier/quicker testing.

* Instruct the linker to place any RW/ZI data sections in the last ~16MB
of the memory map, starting from &ff000000 (with the current toolchain,
giving it a fixed base address is much easier than giving it a variable
base address)
* The RW/ZI section is mapped as completely inaccessible to user mode
* The initial content of the RW section is copied over shortly after MMU
startup (in Continue_after_HALInit)
* Since link's -bin option produces a file containing a copy of the
(zero-initialised) ZI section, the kernel binary is now produced from a
"binary with AIF header" AIF with the help of the new 'kstrip' tool.
kstrip extracts just the RO and RW sections, ensuring the ROM doesn't
contain a redundant block of zeros for the ZI section.

This should make it easier to use C code & arbitrary libraries within
the kernel, providing they're compiled with suitable settings (e.g.
non-module, no FP, no stack checking, like HALs typically use)

Move .gitignore file to root and populate with all temporary paths.
This fixes .gitignore files being deleted during a ROM build.


Version 6.42. Not tagged