Sable CPU Module Specification
Sable CPU Module Specification
Sable CPU Module Specification
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Copyright © 1993 Digital Equipment Corporation.<br />
Note that PALcode at PAL entry points of higher priority than DTBMISS must unlock<br />
possible MMCSR IPR and VA IPR locks.<br />
Table 90: PAL Entry Points<br />
Entry Name Time Offset(Hex) Cause<br />
RESET anytime 0000<br />
MCHK pipe_stage[7] 0020 Uncorrected hardware error.<br />
ARITH anytime 0060 Arithmetic exception.<br />
INTERRUPT anytime 00E0 Includes corrected hardware error.<br />
D-stream errors pipe_stage[6] 01E0, 08E0, 09E0,<br />
11E0<br />
See Table 91.<br />
ITB_MISS pipe_stage[5] 03E0 ITB miss.<br />
ITB_ACV pipe_stage[5] 07E0 I-stream access violation.<br />
CALLPAL pipe_stage[5] 2000,40,80 thru 3FC0 128 locations based on instruction[7,5:0].<br />
If bit[7] equals zero and CM does not equal<br />
kernel mode then an OPDEC exception<br />
occurs.<br />
OPCDEC pipe_stage[5] 13E0 Reserved or privileged opcode.<br />
FEN pipe_stage[5] 17E0 FP op attempted with :<br />
FP instructions disabled via ICCSR FPE<br />
bit<br />
FP IEEE round to +/- infinity<br />
FP IEEE with datatype field other than<br />
S,T,QW<br />
PALcode functions are implemented via the CALL_PAL instruction. CALL_PAL instructions<br />
cause exceptions in the hardware. As with all exceptions, the EXC_ADDR<br />
register is loaded by hardware with a possible return address. CALL_PAL exceptions<br />
do not load the EXC_ADDR register with the address of the CALL_PAL instruction.<br />
Rather, they load the EXC_ADDR register with the address of the instruction following<br />
the CALL_PAL. For this reason, the 21064 PALcode supporting the desired<br />
PAL mode functions need not increment the EXC_ADDR register before executing a<br />
HW_REI instruction to return to native mode. This feature requires special handling<br />
in the arithmetic trap and machine check PALcode flows for the 21064.<br />
To improve the speed of execution, a limited number of CALL_PAL instructions are<br />
directly supported in hardware with dispatches to specific address offsets. The 21064<br />
provides the first 64 priviledged and 64 unpriviledged CALL_PAL instructions with<br />
larger code regions of 64 bytes. This produces hardware PAL entry points as described<br />
below.<br />
Priviledged CALL_PAL Instructions [00000000:0000003F]<br />
Offset(HEX) = 2000 + ([5:0] shift left 6)<br />
Unpriviledged CALL_PAL Instructions [00000080:000000BF]<br />
Offset(HEX) = 3000 + ([5:0] shift left 6)<br />
Cobra Specific ( Privileged Architecture Library Code ) PALcode 229