diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 300c9db..d73873e 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -18,8 +18,24 @@ In u-boot use the following to boot: => booti 0x84000000 - ${fdtcontroladdr} ``` -## Notes +## Use more than 1 CPU -- With only 1 CPU some thigs are soo slow to work. For example, the ttyS0 device - doesn't arrive on time and the login fails. Or the SSH daemon doesn't start - until the third try. With -smp 32 seems to work ok. +With only 1 CPU some thigs are soo slow to work. For example, the ttyS0 device +doesn't arrive on time and the login fails. Or the SSH daemon doesn't start +until the third try. With -smp 32 seems to work ok. + +## Compressed instructions + +To see if a binary has compressed instructions or not, you can use objdump: + + hut% nix shell -vL nixpkgs#pkgsCross.riscv64.bintools + hut% objdump -M no-aliases -D result/u-boot | grep 'c\.' | head -5 + 80200000: 822a c.mv tp,a0 + 80200002: 84ae c.mv s1,a1 + 80200018: 52c1 c.li t0,-16 + 8020001e: 0356 c.slli t1,0x15 + 80200024: 850a c.mv a0,sp + +To dump a ROM without the ELF header: + + hut% objdump -b binary -m riscv:rv64 -M no-aliases -D result/u-boot.bin