2024q1 Homework5 (assessment)

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閱讀〈因為自動飲料機而延畢的那一年〉的啟發

在閱讀完因為自動飲料機而延畢的那一年，我深受啟發。對於文章作者勇於嘗試、不願放棄的精神感到敬佩，從一開始的滿腔熱血，過程中的不斷自我懷疑之後做出延畢的決定，最後做出成果。若是換成一般人，可能會迫於現實的壓力而放棄。

人們往往會被迫妥協，我也深受其害。回想起大學求學階段時，一開始非常鄙視只會看考古題而不認真上課、不願啃原文書的人，認為學習沒有捷徑可言，直到過了幾次考試，學習心態發生改變，我花了大量時間在啃原文書，然而考試成績與那些考前一天只瘋狂刷考古題的人卻相差不大，感受到心態上的不平衡，漸漸地我也同流合污，依賴考古題，只注重考試會考的來應付考試，享受低成本高報酬的快感而沾沾自喜，隨著大學將近四年這樣的學習心態也讓我與他人的差距越來越大。

一開始非常猶豫要不要修 Linux 核心實作這門課，因為這堂課是出了名的硬，要花費大量的心力及時間。在聽了老師第一堂課程介紹後，首先就是要誠實面對自己，想到過去大學的自己不求甚解，學的不夠扎實，那就趁這個機會，把基礎打好，改變自己的學習態度，就頭鐵決定修下去。

修了這堂課的這幾週，深刻的體會到為大學的不努力而買帳，不論是在理解教材或是寫作業上都非常吃力，指定進度嚴重落後，與大部分學員的進度也落差很大，常常看不懂教材，想了半天也想不出個所以然，隨著每次的卡關，常常有退選的念頭出現，看了這系列的文章及同儕的鼓勵，有了動力。

研讀第 1 到第 6 週「課程教材」和 CS:APP 3/e

簡述想投入的專案

前陣子在翻閱 The Linux Programming Interface 這本書的時候，對第七章 Memory Alloctian 的主題感到興趣，花了一些時間把第七章閱讀完，因此想做跟 Memory 相關的專案

〈每位程式開發者都該有的記憶體知識〉翻譯和校訂
實作高效記憶體配置器

Running linux on stm32f429 discovery

Prerequisites

OpenOCD

    git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/openocd/code openocd
    cd openocd
    ./bootstrap
    ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-stlink
    echo -e "all:\ninstall:" > doc/Makefile
    make
    sudo make install

~~Set ARM/uClinux Toolchain:~~
- Download arm-2010q1-189-arm-uclinuxeabi-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.bz2 from Mentor Graphics

    tar jxvf arm-2010q1-189-arm-uclinuxeabi-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.bz2
    export PATH=`pwd`/arm-2010q1/bin:$PATH

ARM Cross Compile Toolchain:

    sudo apt-get install arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc
    which arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc
    export PATH=/usr/bin:$PATH
    source ~/.bashrc

Verify it by checking the installed version :

$ arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc --version
arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc (Ubuntu 11.4.0-1ubuntu1~22.04) 11.4.0
Copyright (C) 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

genromfs

    sudo apt-get install genromfs

STLINK Tools: stlinkis an open source toolset to program and debug STM32 devices and boards manufactured by STMicroelectronics.

    cd ~
    git clone https://github.com/texane/stlink.git
    cd ./stlink
    sudo apt-get install libusb-1.0-0-dev
    sudo apt-get -y install cmake
    sudo apt-get install libstlink1
    make
    cd build/Release
    sudo make install

To verify the successful installation

st-flash

Build

~~simple bootloader~~

git clone git@github.com:mcoquelin-stm32/afboot-stm32.git

U-boot

git clone git://git.denx.de/u-boot.git
cd u-boot
make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-eabi- stm32f429-discovery_defconfig
make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-eabi- -j4

kernel

git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/atorgue/stm32.git // 版本太舊


git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git

minimal Linux config

make ARCH=arm O=/build/stm32f429 tinyconfig

make[1]: Entering directory '/home/cychen/stm32/stm32/build/stm32f429'
  HOSTCC  scripts/basic/fixdep
  GEN     ./Makefile
  GEN     ./Makefile
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/conf.o
  SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c
  SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.lex.c
  SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.hash.c
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o
  HOSTLD  scripts/kconfig/conf
scripts/kconfig/conf  --allnoconfig Kconfig
#
# configuration written to .config
#
  GEN     ./Makefile
Using .config as base
Merging /home/cychen/stm32/stm32/kernel/configs/tiny.config
Value of CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE is redefined by fragment /home/cychen/stm32/stm32/kernel/configs/tiny.config:
Previous value: # CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE is not set
New value: CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y

Value of CONFIG_KERNEL_XZ is redefined by fragment /home/cychen/stm32/stm32/kernel/configs/tiny.config:
Previous value: # CONFIG_KERNEL_XZ is not set
New value: CONFIG_KERNEL_XZ=y

Value of CONFIG_SLOB is redefined by fragment /home/cychen/stm32/stm32/kernel/configs/tiny.config:
Previous value: # CONFIG_SLOB is not set
New value: CONFIG_SLOB=y

#
# merged configuration written to .config (needs make)
#
  GEN     ./Makefile
scripts/kconfig/conf  --oldconfig Kconfig
.config:867:warning: override: CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE changes choice state
.config:868:warning: override: KERNEL_XZ changes choice state
.config:870:warning: override: SLOB changes choice state
#
# configuration written to .config
#
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/cychen/stm32/stm32/build/stm32f429'

Menu Config

make ARCH=arm O=build/stm32f429 menuconfig

When I try to menu config, but got some error message

make[1]: Entering directory '/home/cychen/stm32/stm32/build/stm32f429'
  GEN     ./Makefile
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/mconf.o
<command-line>: fatal error: curses.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.host:108: scripts/kconfig/mconf.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [/home/cychen/stm32/stm32/Makefile:544: menuconfig] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/cychen/stm32/stm32/build/stm32f429'
make: *** [Makefile:150: sub-make] Error 2

libncurses5-dev need to be installed before compiling the kernel

sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev

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make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi- -C build/stm32f429 -j 4

Error Message:

make: Entering directory '/home/cychen/stm32/stm32/build/stm32f429'
  CHK     include/config/kernel.release
  GEN     ./Makefile
  CHK     include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h
  CC      scripts/mod/empty.o
  CC      scripts/mod/devicetable-offsets.s
  HOSTLD  scripts/dtc/dtc
/usr/bin/ld: scripts/dtc/dtc-parser.tab.o:(.bss+0x10): multiple definition of `yylloc'; scripts/dtc/dtc-lexer.lex.o:(.bss+0x0): first defined here
  Using /home/cychen/stm32/stm32 as source for kernel
  MKELF   scripts/mod/elfconfig.h
  HOSTCC  scripts/mod/modpost.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/mod/sumversion.o
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[4]: *** [scripts/Makefile.host:100: scripts/dtc/dtc] Error 1
make[3]: *** [/home/cychen/stm32/stm32/scripts/Makefile.build:440: scripts/dtc] Error 2
make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
  GEN     scripts/mod/devicetable-offsets.h
  CHK     include/generated/utsrelease.h
  HOSTCC  scripts/mod/file2alias.o
  CC      kernel/bounds.s
In file included from /home/cychen/stm32/stm32/include/linux/kernel.h:11,
                 from /home/cychen/stm32/stm32/include/asm-generic/bug.h:13,
                 from /home/cychen/stm32/stm32/arch/arm/include/asm/bug.h:59,
                 from /home/cychen/stm32/stm32/include/linux/bug.h:4,
                 from /home/cychen/stm32/stm32/include/linux/page-flags.h:9,
                 from /home/cychen/stm32/stm32/kernel/bounds.c:9:
/home/cychen/stm32/stm32/include/linux/log2.h:22:1: warning: ignoring attribute ‘noreturn’ because it conflicts with attribute ‘const’ [-Wattributes]
   22 | int ____ilog2_NaN(void);
      | ^~~
  CHK     include/generated/timeconst.h
  CHK     include/generated/bounds.h
  UPD     include/generated/bounds.h
  CC      arch/arm/kernel/asm-offsets.s
In file included from /home/cychen/stm32/stm32/include/linux/kernel.h:11,
                 from /home/cychen/stm32/stm32/include/linux/sched.h:17,
                 from /home/cychen/stm32/stm32/arch/arm/kernel/asm-offsets.c:14:
/home/cychen/stm32/stm32/include/linux/log2.h:22:1: warning: ignoring attribute ‘noreturn’ because it conflicts with attribute ‘const’ [-Wattributes]
   22 | int ____ilog2_NaN(void);
      | ^~~
  CHK     include/generated/asm-offsets.h
  UPD     include/generated/asm-offsets.h
  CALL    /home/cychen/stm32/stm32/scripts/checksyscalls.sh
  HOSTLD  scripts/mod/modpost
make[2]: *** [/home/cychen/stm32/stm32/Makefile:558: scripts] Error 2
make[1]: *** [Makefile:150: sub-make] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:24: __sub-make] Error 2
make: Leaving directory '/home/cychen/stm32/stm32/build/stm32f429'

參考，似乎是 GCC 版本太新所造成的問題
解決方法:

 cd scripts/dtc/
 
 sudo vim dtc-lexer.lex.c_shipped
 --------------------------------------------------
 635 #line 37 "dtc-lexer.l"
 636 #include "dtc.h"
 637 #include "srcpos.h"
 638 #include "dtc-parser.tab.h"
 639 
 640 YYLTYPE yylloc; //檔案640行，前面加上 extern
 --------------------------------------------------

https://hackmd.io/@cychen/linux-final

Boot loader 存在必要？
XIP image => 1.8MB
boot loader 責任是初始化 memory controller, flash controller, 和相關周邊，之後再載入 Linux 核心
TODO: 確保 u-boot 正確編譯、用 st-link 燒錄成功，且在 STM32F429-Discovery 執行 u-boot (可見命令提示)
TODO: 確認 u-boot 支援的 Linux image 格式 (Image, uImage, zImage)，偏好用 XIP
TODO: 在 u-boot 載入 Linux image (from flash)，輸入正確的 boot cmd (boot args)

non-XIP: load everything from Flash to RAM and then execute programs on RAM (佔用較多的記憶體)
XIP : load data from Flash to RAM and then execute program on Flash + RAM (data section)

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt

uClibc : libc used for mmu and no-mmu

2024q1 Homework5 (assessment)

閱讀〈因為自動飲料機而延畢的那一年〉的啟發

研讀 第 1 到第 6 週「課程教材」和 CS:APP 3/e

簡述想投入的專案

Running linux on stm32f429 discovery

Prerequisites

Build

Reference

Read more

Running Linux 6.10 on stm32f429

2024q1 Homework4 (quiz3+4)

2024q1 Homework1 (lab0)

2024q1 Homework2 (quiz1+2)

研讀第 1 到第 6 週「課程教材」和 CS:APP 3/e