doc/README: documents and readme for NDS32 arch

Documents and READMEs for NDS32 architecture.
It patch also provides usage of SoC AG101 and board ADP-AG101.

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/mips32 Files specific to MIPS32 CPUs
/xburst Files specific to Ingenic XBurst CPUs
/lib Architecture specific library files
/nds32 Files generic to NDS32 architecture
/cpu CPU specific files
/n1213 Files specific to Andes Technology N1213 CPUs
/lib Architecture specific library files
/nios2 Files generic to Altera NIOS2 architecture
/cpu CPU specific files
/lib Architecture specific library files
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globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEM).
- CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT
[ARM, MIPS only] If this variable is defined, then certain
[ARM, NDS32, MIPS only] If this variable is defined, then certain
low level initializations (like setting up the memory
controller) are omitted and/or U-Boot does not
relocate itself into RAM.
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Currently supported: Linux, NetBSD, VxWorks, QNX, RTEMS, LynxOS,
INTEGRITY).
* Target CPU Architecture (Provisions for Alpha, ARM, AVR32, Intel x86,
IA64, MIPS, Nios II, PowerPC, IBM S390, SuperH, Sparc, Sparc 64 Bit;
Currently supported: ARM, AVR32, Intel x86, MIPS, Nios II, PowerPC).
IA64, MIPS, NDS32, Nios II, PowerPC, IBM S390, SuperH, Sparc, Sparc 64 Bit;
Currently supported: ARM, AVR32, Intel x86, MIPS, NDS32, Nios II, PowerPC).
* Compression Type (uncompressed, gzip, bzip2)
* Load Address
* Entry Point
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Note: on Nios II, we give "-G0" option to gcc and don't use gp
to access small data sections, so gp is free.
On NDS32, the following registers are used:
R0-R1: argument/return
R2-R5: argument
R15: temporary register for assembler
R16: trampoline register
R28: frame pointer (FP)
R29: global pointer (GP)
R30: link register (LP)
R31: stack pointer (SP)
PC: program counter (PC)
==> U-Boot will use R10 to hold a pointer to the global data
NOTE: DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR must be used with file-global scope,
or current versions of GCC may "optimize" the code too much.

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N1213 is a configurable hard/soft core of NDS32's N12 CPU family.
Features
========
CPU Core
- 16-/32-bit mixable instruction format.
- 32 general-purpose 32-bit registers.
- 8-stage pipeline.
- Dynamic branch prediction.
- 32/64/128/256 BTB.
- Return address stack (RAS).
- Vector interrupts for internal/external.
interrupt controller with 6 hardware interrupt signals.
- 3 HW-level nested interruptions.
- User and super-user mode support.
- Memory-mapped I/O.
- Address space up to 4GB.
Memory Management Unit
- TLB
- 4/8-entry fully associative iTLB/dTLB.
- 32/64/128-entry 4-way set-associati.ve main TLB.
- TLB locking support
- Optional hardware page table walker.
- Two groups of page size support.
- 4KB & 1MB.
- 8KB & 1MB.
Memory Subsystem
- I & D cache.
- Virtually indexed and physically tagged.
- Cache size: 8KB/16KB/32KB/64KB.
- Cache line size: 16B/32B.
- Set associativity: 2-way, 4-way or direct-mapped.
- Cache locking support.
- I & D local memory (LM).
- Size: 4KB to 1MB.
- Bank numbers: 1 or 2.
- Optional 1D/2D DMA engine.
- Internal or external to CPU core.
Bus Interface
- Synchronous/Asynchronous AHB bus: 0, 1 or 2 ports.
- Synchronous High speed memory port.
(HSMP): 0, 1 or 2 ports.
Debug
- JTAG debug interface.
- Embedded debug module (EDM).
- Optional embedded program tracer interface.
Miscellaneous
- Programmable data endian control.
- Performance monitoring mechanism.

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NDS32 is a new high-performance 32-bit RISC microprocessor core.
http://www.andestech.com/
AndeStar ISA
============
AndeStar is a patent-pending 16-bit/32-bit mixed-length instruction set to
achieve optimal system performance, code density, and power efficiency.
It contains the following features:
- Intermixable 32-bit and 16-bit instruction sets without the need for
mode switch.
- 16-bit instructions as a frequently used subset of 32-bit instructions.
- RISC-style register-based instruction set.
- 32 32-bit General Purpose Registers (GPR).
- Upto 1024 User Special Registers (USR) for existing and extension
instructions.
- Rich load/store instructions for...
- Single memory access with base address update.
- Multiple aligned and unaligned memory accesses for memory copy and stack
operations.
- Data prefetch to improve data cache performance.
- Non-bus locking synchronization instructions.
- PC relative jump and PC read instructions for efficient position independent
code.
- Multiply-add and multiple-sub with 64-bit accumulator.
- Instruction for efficient power management.
- Bi-endian support.
- Three instruction extension space for application acceleration:
- Performance extension.
- Andes future extensions (for floating-point, multimedia, etc.)
- Customer extensions.
AndesCore CPU
=============
Andes Technology has 4 families of CPU cores: N12, N10, N9, N8.
For details about N12 CPU family, please check doc/README.N1213.
The NDS32 ports of u-boot, the Linux kernel, the GNU toolchain and
other associated software are actively supported by Andes Technology Corporation.

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Andes Technology SoC AG101
==========================
AG101 is the first SoC produced by Andes Technology using N1213 CPU core.
AG101 has integrated both AHB and APB bus and many periphals for application
and product development.
ADP-AG101
=========
ADP-AG101 is the SoC with AG101 hardcore CPU.
Please check http://www.andestech.com/p2-4.htm for detail of this SoC.
Configurations
==============
CONFIG_MEM_REMAP:
Doing memory remap is essential for preparing some non-OS or RTOS
applications.
This is also a must on ADP-AG101 board.
(While other boards may not have this problem).
The reason is because the ROM/FLASH circuit on PCB board.
AG101-A0 board has 2 jumpers MA17 and SW5 to configure which
ROM/FLASH is used to boot.
When SW5 = "0101", MA17 = LO, the ROM is connected to BANK0,
and the FLASH is connected to BANK1.
When SW5 = "1010", MA17 = HI, the ROM is disabled (still at BANK0),
and the FLASH is connected to BANK0.
It will occur problem when doing flash probing if the flash is at
BANK0 (0x00000000) while memory remapping was skipped.
Other board like ADP-AG101P may not enable this since there is only
a FLASH connected to bank0.
CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT:
If you want to boot this system from FLASH and bypass e-bios (the
other boot loader on ROM). You should undefine CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT
in "include/configs/adp-ag101.h".
Build and boot steps
====================
build:
1. Prepare the toolchains and make sure the $PATH to toolchains is correct.
2. Use `make adp-ag101` in u-boot root to build the image.
burn u-boot to flash:
1. Make sure the MA17 (J16) is Lo.
2. Make sure the dip switch SW5 is set to "0101".
3. Power On. Press button "S1", then press button "SW1", then you will found the
debug LED show 67 means the system successfully booted into e-bios.
Now you can control the e-bios boot loader from your console.
4. Under "Command>>" prompt, enter "97" (CopyImageFromCard)
5. Under "Type Dir Name of [CF/SD] =>" promtp, enter "c".
6. Under "Enter Filename =>" prompt, enter the file name of u-boot image you
just build. It is usually "u-boot.bin".
7. Under "Enter Dest. Address =>" prompt, enter the memory address where you
want to put the binary from SD card to RAM.
Address "0x500000" is our suggestion.
8. Under "Command>>" prompt again, enter "55" (CLI) to use interactive command
environment.
9. Under "CLI>" prompt, enter "burn 0x500000 0x80400000 0x30000" to burn the
binary from RAM to FLASH.
10. Under "CLI>" prompt, enter "exit" to finish the burn process.
boot u-boot from flash:
1. Make sure the MA17 (J16) is Hi).
2. Make sure the dip switch SW5 is set to "1010".
3. Power On. Press button "S1", then you will see the debug LED count to 20.
4. Now you can use u-boot on ADP-AG101 board.

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ARM 0x0c100000 0x0c100000
MIPS 0x80200000 0x80200000
Blackfin 0x00001000 0x00001000
NDS32 0x00300000 0x00300000
Nios II 0x02000000 0x02000000
For example, the "hello world" application may be loaded and