[ECOS] Thumb support for arm9 variants?

["Lars Povlsen" <lpovlsen@vitesse.com>]

Hello All!

I have been tinkering with a couple of ARM9/ARM926 platforms for which I
have built an eCos HAL modeled after the ARM9 variants in
packages/hal/arm/arm9/*. Everything (mostly) is looking great, but
wanting to test the thumb-mode of my chips turned out to be less than
straight-forward...

I deduced that I was unable to just "enable" in configtool due to
missing "implements CYGINT_HAL_ARM_THUMB_ARCH". But with that added (and
the -mthumb compile options that goes along), it seems that not all code
in hal/arm/arm9 is "thumb"-compatible:

arm-elf-gcc -c
-I/proj/sw/usr/lpovlsen/ecos/build_luton28_ram/install/include
-I/users/lpovlsen/project/ecos/base/packages/hal/arm/arm9/var/current
-I/users/lpovlsen/project/ecos/base/packages/hal/arm/arm9/var/current/sr
c
-I/users/lpovlsen/project/ecos/base/packages/hal/arm/arm9/var/current/te
sts -I.
-I/users/lpovlsen/project/ecos/base/packages/hal/arm/arm9/var/current/sr
c/ -finline-limit=7000 -mthumb -mthumb-interwork -mcpu=arm9 -Wall
-Wpointer-arith -Wstrict-prototypes -Winline -Wundef  -g -O2
-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections  -fno-exceptions
-Wp,-MD,src/arm9_misc.tmp -o src/hal_arm_arm9_var_arm9_misc.o
/users/lpovlsen/project/ecos/base/packages/hal/arm/arm9/var/current/src/
arm9_misc.c
/tmp/ccmyIUwO.s: Assembler messages:
/tmp/ccmyIUwO.s:24: Error: bad instruction `mrc p15,0,r1,c1,c0,0'
/tmp/ccmyIUwO.s:24: Error: register expected, not '#0x000F' -- `orr
r1,r1,#0x000F'
/tmp/ccmyIUwO.s:24: Error: bad instruction `mcr p15,0,r1,c1,c0,0'
/tmp/ccmyIUwO.s:26: Error: bad instruction `mrc p15,0,r1,c1,c0,0'
/tmp/ccmyIUwO.s:26: Error: register expected, not '#0x1000' -- `orr
r1,r1,#0x1000'
/tmp/ccmyIUwO.s:26: Error: register expected, not '#0x0002' -- `orr
r1,r1,#0x0002'
/tmp/ccmyIUwO.s:26: Error: bad instruction `mcr p15,0,r1,c1,c0,0'
/tmp/ccmyIUwO.s:45: Error: bad instruction `mrs r1,cpsr'
/tmp/ccmyIUwO.s:45: Error: register expected, not '#0x1F' -- `bic
r1,r1,#0x1F'
/tmp/ccmyIUwO.s:45: Error: register expected, not '#0x13' -- `orr
r1,r1,#0x13'
/tmp/ccmyIUwO.s:45: Error: bad instruction `msr cpsr,r1'
/tmp/ccmyIUwO.s:45: Error: bad instruction `mcr p15,0,r1,c7,c7,0'
/tmp/ccmyIUwO.s:45: Error: bad instruction `mcr p15,0,r1,c7,c10,4'
/tmp/ccmyIUwO.s:45: Error: bad instruction `mcr p15,0,r1,c8,c7,0'
/tmp/ccmyIUwO.s:45: Error: bad instruction `mrc p15,0,r1,c1,c0,0'
/tmp/ccmyIUwO.s:45: Error: register expected, not '#0x1000' -- `bic
r1,r1,#0x1000'
/tmp/ccmyIUwO.s:45: Error: register expected, not '#0x0007' -- `bic
r1,r1,#0x0007'
/tmp/ccmyIUwO.s:45: Error: bad instruction `mcr p15,0,r1,c1,c0,0'
make[1]: *** [src/arm9_misc.o.d] Error 1 

It seems, however that the ARM PID has both ARM9 and thumb support - and
so does at91 etc. Where did I go wrong? Is thumb "out of fashion" - or
did I just set off from the wrong place? None of the hal/arm/arm9 HAL's
have thumb...?

Sincerely

Lars Povlsen
Senior member of technical staff
Vitesse Semiconductor Corp
Direct: +45 44855957

PS: While I have your attention - I would like to thank everyone here
supporting eCos for the immense patience shown in answering everything
from deep-tech to novice questions. Thanks - I am full of awe, sometimes
you really deserve a medal! 

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