Getting undefined exception on enabling Neon and VFP

harshitsingh — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 05:38:58 GMT

Hi,

I am trying to enable a neon and vfp for iMX6 quad Sabre lite board.

Initially when I was setting the target cpu as ‘Cortex-A9.no_neon.no_vfp’, then the code was working fine.

But not when I use the target cpu as ‘Cortex-A9’ only and enabling the VFP and neon using the code mentioned below:

“MRC p15,0,r0,c1,c0,2 ; Read CPACR into r0

ORR r0,r0,#(3<<20) ; OR in User and Privileged access for CP10

ORR r0,r0,#(3<<22) ; OR in User and Privileged access for CP11

BIC r0, r0, #(3<<30) ; Clear ASEDIS/D32DIS if set

MCR p15,0,r0,c1,c0,2 ; Store new access permissions into CPACR

ISB ; Ensure side-effect of CPACR is visible

MOV r0,#(1<<30) ; Create value with FPEXC (bit 30) set in r0

VMSR FPEXC,r0 ; Enable VFP and SIMD extensions”

I get an undefined exception when I do a single stepping for the last instruction ‘VMSR FPEXC, r0’;

So could you please let me know what else need to be taken care of to get rid of this exception with Neon and VFP enabled.

Kindly let me know your feedback regarding this.

Thanks,

Harshit

Re: Getting undefined exception on enabling Neon and VFP

Yuri — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 08:48:24 GMT

Please use

mcr p10,#0x7,r0,c8,c0,#0 /* msr FPEXC,r0 in ARM assembly */

instead of

VMSR FPEXC,r0