raspberry pi broadcom 2835 SoC (based on 2708) arm1176jzf-s (v6 arch) 700MHz cpu, apparently dual-issue, with vfp2 videocore 4 gpu l1 I & D VIPT caches 16K each: 4-way, 128 sets, 32-byte lines l1 D is write-through, l1 I is write-back unified l2 PIPT cache 128K: 4-way?, 1024? sets, 32-byte lines, mostly for gpu (by default CPU doesn't see it) we arrange that device register accesses are uncached and unbuffered (strongly ordered, in armv6/v7 terminology). 256MB or 512MB of dram at physical address 0, shared with gpu non-16550 uart for console uart serial voltages are TTL (3.3v, not rs232 which is nominally 12v); could use usb serial (ick). there's no real ethernet controller, so we have to use usb ether, and the usb controller is nastier than usual. There's a serial port (115200b/s) on P1 connector pins (GND,TXD,RXD) = (6,8,10). These are 3v TTL signals: use a level-shifter to convert to RS232, or a USB-to-TTL-serial adapter. Add the line "console=0 b115200" to the /cfg/pxe file on the server, or the parameter "console='0 b115200'" to cmdline.txt on the SD card. 9pi is a Plan 9 terminal, which can boot with local fossil root on the sd card (/dev/sdM0), or with root from a Plan 9 file server via tcp. 9picpu is a Plan 9 cpu server, which could be used in a headless configuration without screen, keyboard or mouse. 9pifat is a minimal configuration which boots a shell script boot.rc with root in /plan9 on the dos partition, maybe useful for embedded applications where a full Plan 9 system is not needed. Network booting with u-boot: start with a normal rpi u-boot sd (e.g. raspberry-pi-uboot-20120707). update the start.elf with a version from a newer rpi distro (see below). mk installall add new system to ndb see booting(8) Booting from sd card: - start with a normal rpi distro sd (e.g. 2012-08-16-wheezy-raspbian) [NB: versions of start.elf earlier than this may not be compatible] - copy 9pi to sd's root directory - add or change "kernel=" line in config.txt to "kernel=9pi" - plan9.ini is built from the "kernel arguments" in cmdline.txt - each var=value entry becomes one plan9.ini line, so entries with spaces will need single quotes. physical mem map hex addr size what ---- 0 256MB sdram, cached (newer models have 512MB) 00000000 64 exception vectors 00000100 7936 boot ATAGs (inc. cmdline.txt) 00002000 4K Mach 00003000 1K L2 page table for exception vectors 00003400 1K videocore mailbox buffer 00003800 2K FIQ stack 00004000 16K L1 page table for kernel 00008000 - default kernel load address 01000000 16K u-boot env 20000000 16M peripherals 20003000 system timer(s) 20007000 dma 2000B000 arm control: intr, timers 0 & 1, semas, doorbells, mboxes 20100000 power, reset, watchdog 20200000 gpio 20201000 uart0 20202000 mmc 20215040 uart1 (mini uart) 20300000 eMMC 20600000 smi 20980000 otg usb 40000000 l2 cache only 7e00b000 arm control 7e2000c0 jtag 7e201000? pl011 usrt 7e215000 aux: uart1, spi[12] 80000000 c0000000 bypass caches virtual mem map (from cpu address map & mmu mappings) hex addr size what ---- 0 512MB user process address space 7e000000 16M i/o registers 80000000 <=224M kzero, kernel ram (reserve some for GPU) ffff0000 4K exception vectors Linux params at *R2 (default 0x100) are a sequence of ATAGs struct atag { u32int size; /* size of ATAG in words, including header */ u32int tag; /* ATAG_CORE is first, ATAG_NONE is last */ u32int data[size-2]; }; 00000000 ATAG_NONE 54410001 ATAG_CORE 54410002 ATAG_MEM 54410009 ATAG_CMDLINE uart dmas 15, 14 intrs (96) irq1 0 timer0 1 timer1 2 timer2 3 timer3 8 isp 9 usb 16 dma0 17 dma1 ⋯ 28 dma12 29 aux: uart1 30 arm 31 vpu dma irq2 35 sdc 36 dsio 40 hdmi0 41 hdmi1 48 smi 56 sdio 57 uart1 aka "vc uart" irq0 64 timer 65 mbox 66 doorbell0 67 doorbell1 75 usb 77 dma2 78 dma3 82 sdio 83 uart0