Weekly meets and targets

This blog will be updates Bi-weekly.

WEEK 1 and 2

MOM - 27th May, 2023

• Discussed the scope and implementation of the project

• Set targets for Week 1
  1. Go through the PRU Assembly, compile some examples using pru-gcc
  2. Refer the Cpu0 backend, going through the codebase and implementation
  3. Read the PRU section of the reference manual, and understand more about it

• Suggestion given : Look for a way to take care of the special functions in the language, like gpio pins configuration, debugging functionality and so on

• Final goal : Upstreaming the backend

• References shared: https://mythopoeic.org/BBB-PRU/am335xPruReferenceGuide.pdf https://www.ti.com/lit/ug/spruh73q/spruh73q.pdf

WEEK 3 and 4

MOM - 10th June, 2023

• Discussed some PRU instructions and registers

• Set target for Week 2
  1. Modify the existing implementation of PRU Backend to support the latest LLVM version 16
  2. Write the registerinfo.td for PRU
  3. Write the instrinfo.td for PRU
• References shared: https://llvm.org/docs/TableGen/ProgRef.html https://www.ti.com/lit/SPRUIJ2 https://mythopoeic.org/BBB-PRU/am335xPruReferenceGuide.pdf https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc-patches/2018-06/msg00775.html https://github.com/bryant/llvm-pru