...instead of on the master side of the system bus.
People inheriting from HasTileMasterPort might need to add
`masterNode := tileBus.node` to their Tile child class.
- Put correctness responsibility on Frontend, not IBuf, for improved
separation of concerns. Frontend must detect case that the BTB
predicts a taken branch in the middle of an instruction.
- Pass BTB information down pipeline unconditionally, fixing case that
screws up the branch history when the BTB misses and the instruction
is misaligned.
- Remove jumpInFrontend option; it's now unconditional.
- Default to one-bit counters in the BHT. For tiny BHTs like these, it's
more resource efficient to have a larger index space than to have
hysteresis.
Fragmenter: add a third case for earlyAck (PutFulls only)
It seems quite common to have a device that is backed by ECC. When
performing a multibeat PutPartial, these devices can exhibit their
first error on the last beat (if it had an incomplete write mask
for that beat, which required read-write-modifying corrupted data).
Generally, these devices have ECC granularity <= the bus width. In
those cases, if you send a PutFull, the first beat carries the
error value for the whole burst. Consider:
If the PutFull was below the granularity, it was a single beat.
If the PutFull was multi-beat, it exceeds the granularity.
Therefore, an important variation on the earlyAck optimization is
the case where only PutFulls receive an earlyAck.
* CSR provides a decode port to check for an illegal instruction.
* This commit now allows for multiple instructions in decode to get this
illegal instruction information.
* This commit leverages the existing decodeWidth parameter. This will
potentially over-provision the number of decode ports needed for
RVC-enabled cores.
Closes#1068
We had planned for a while to add an 'Overwrite' message which obtains
permissions without requiring retrieval of data. This is useful whenever
a master knows it will completely replace the contents of a cache block.
Instead of calling it Overwrite, we decided to split the Acquire type.
If you AcquirePerm, you MUST Release and ProbeAck with Data.
