This is an unavoidably invasive commit, because it affects the unit tests
(which formerly exited using stop()), the test harness Verilog generator
(since it is no longer necessary), and the DRAM model (since it is no
longer connected). However, this should substantially reduce the effort
of building test harnesses in the future, since manual or semi-automatic
Verilog writing should no longer be necessary. Furthermore, there is now
very little duplication of effort between the Verilator and VCS test
harnesses.
This commit removes support for DRAMsim, which is a bit of an unfortunate
consequence. The main blocker is the lack of Verilog parameterization for
BlackBox. It would be straightforward to revive DRAMsim once support for
that feature is added to Chisel and FIRRTL. But that might not even be
necessary, as we move towards synthesizable DRAM models and FAME-1
transformations.
Until now, the number of L1 client channels was set statically in the
configuration. This static configuration also assumed the same number of
cached and uncached channels per tile. As we plan to move towards
heterogenous multicore systems, this restriction should be removed.
This commit changes the generator so that number of channels per tile
can be independently set (using cde.Parameters.alterPartial).
The OuterMemorySystem will dynamically compute the number of cached and
uncached channels by summing the number of each kind of channel per core.
Until recently, we were assuming that the data channel in AXI was always
right-justified. However, for narrow writes, the data must actually be
aligned within the byte lanes. This commit changes some of the
converters in order to fix this issue.
There was a bug in the L2 cache in which a merged get request was
causing the tracker to read the old data from the data array,
overwriting the updated data acquired from outer memory. Changed it so
that pending_reads is no longer set if the data in the buffer is already
valid.
There was a bug in the PortedTileLinkCrossbar. The new GrantFromSrc and
FinishToDst types used client_id for routing to managers. This caused
bits to get cut off, which meant the Finish messages could not be routed
correctly. Changed to use manager_id instead.
Chisel 3 can't build the C++ emulator, so we currently can't have direct
support for testing RocketChip. We can at least test to see if the
Verilog builds when run through Chisel 3, which this patch does.
