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That is the first and only thing it cares about when you give it voltage. It does not care what is there, it simply starts executing raw code.

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So when you apply voltage to the CPU then it automatically just starts executing whatever machine code is at address 0x0. When the CPU is first powered on then has built-in logic to map 0圆00000 to 0x0. That will be something like address 0圆000000 or something like that if you look at the documentation for that SoC/Processor. One of the things that is hardwired into the ARM chip is the lines on the board leading to your Flash drive that is usually soldered directly to the board. Like the registers you need to configure the pins on the bottom of the chip. Different parts of the SoC device are hard-wired to appear at different parts of the memory map. How it works is that the processor on the SoC has a memory address range. U-Boot/Redboot act like sort of like the BIOS on the ARM system. There jobs on a ARM system are much more complicated then something like Grub2 does. All that stuff is completely uninitialized and non-configured.

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There is nothing to detect or configure your RAM, or configure your serial ports, or ethernet ports, or compact flash controller, or harddrive controller or anything like that. So with no BIOS there is nothing to configure any of that. Everything is multipurpose since the SoC is designed to be used in the widest number of devices and configurations possible. They can usually multiplex as GPIO pins (so you can program them to send voltage signals to control devices or send signals to robot controllers or whatever) and also be maybe one of the pins for the memory controllers or for the ethernet controller or something like that. This SoC has pins on the back that are very multifunction. Memory controllers, drive controlers, graphics controllers, often you have extra things like DSP processors or bluetooth support or whatever else is usually needed for your cell phone or other embedded-style ARM device. Instead what happens is that you have a 'System On a Chip'.Ī SoC is a like a processor in x86, except instead of just having the processor it has all the basic things built-in you need for a computer. There is no 'Power On Self Test', no 'BIOS' or anything like that usually. (Linux does not need a BIOS, but it makes it much more complicated to setup if you don't) (in the future PCs will use EFI instead of a BIOS, but the basic concept is similar)įor a ARM-based embedded systems there is nothing like this. Without this you would not even be able to run some operating systems like Windows XP. All this hardware configuration and setup must be done before the system begins to execute your OS'es bootloader. The BIOS will initialize your motherboard, initialize your harddrive controller, detect the harddrive and the harddrive geometry, etc etc.

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The BIOS on the PC is responsible for getting your hardware initially detected and powering up everything so that your bootloader like Grub, Lilo, NTLDR, DOS stuff, or Syslinux can work.įor example you store the bootloader on the 'Master Boot Record' of your harddrive.

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Note: I copied the discussion to 'Software' but don't know how to remove this post, apologies.For ARM systems there are usually no 'BIOS' like there is for the PC.

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Any help would be greatly appreciated!įor reference, I am running WSL with Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS on a Windows 10 desktop. I have tried looking for the source of the error within the code so that I may change it, but I can't seem to find it, and the solutions I have found (namely this solution from Nils Roos) have not worked for me. UPD include/generated/timestamp_autogenerated.hĬc1: error: bad value (‘armv5’) for ‘-march=’ switchĬc1: note: valid arguments to ‘-march=’ switch are: nocona core2 nehalem corei7 westmere sandybridge corei7-avx ivybridge core-avx-i haswell core-avx2 broadwell skylake skylake-avx512 cannonlake icelake-client rocketlake icelake-server cascadelake tigerlake cooperlake sapphirerapids alderlake bonnell atom silvermont slm goldmont goldmont-plus tremont knl knm x86-64 x86-64-v2 x86-64-v3 x86-64-v4 eden-x2 nano nano-1000 nano-2000 nano-3000 nano-x2 eden-x4 nano-x4 k8 k8-sse3 opteron opteron-sse3 athlon64 athlon64-sse3 athlon-fx amdfam10 barcelona bdver1 bdver2 bdver3 bdver4 znver1 znver2 znver3 btver1 btver2 native Scripts/kconfig/conf -silentoldconfig KconfigĬHK include/generated/version_autogenerated.hĬHK include/generated/timestamp_autogenerated.h Make: Entering directory '/home/sslerose/RedPitaya/tmp/u-boot-xlnx-redpitaya-v2016.4.1' Make -C tmp/u-boot-xlnx-redpitaya-v2016.4.1 arch=ARM CFLAGS='-O2 -mtune=cortex-a9 -mfpu=neon -mfloat-abi=hard' Make: Leaving directory '/home/sslerose/RedPitaya/tmp/u-boot-xlnx-redpitaya-v2016.4.1' Code: Select all make: Entering directory '/home/sslerose/RedPitaya/tmp/u-boot-xlnx-redpitaya-v2016.4.1'

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