Here's a patch to get rid of the `#define RTEMS__mcpu32p__ 1' when
gen68360.cfg is being used as a companion for gen68360_040.cfg. The
old version worked because of the order of the conditional tests in
m68k.h (the check for __mc68040__ is before the test for
RTEMS__mcpu32p__) , but I think it might have been a little confusing
to others just getting started.
Finally I am through: I have found the last bugs that made RTEMS-
4.0-beta3 start on my ppc403 board from ROM. So now the '403
support is up to date again.
Roughly I have added the following features:
- support for the on-chip interrupt controller (in a separate module)
- interrupt support for the console device
- termios support for the console device
==============================================
Since the BSP behaivour changed in some details (console no
longer is polling, other memory layout etc) I have created a new
BSP "helas403" rather than changing the "papyrus" BSP. The old
"polled" console driver still sticks around in "console.c.polled"
To get the BSP up and running, I had to create the new BSP files
(derived from papyrus). Besides that, the following source areas
have been changed:
- c/src/lib/libcpu/powerpc/ppc403: changes to console driver, small
changes to clock driver, new "ictrl" interrupt controller driver
- c/src/exec/score/cpu/powerpc/ppc.h: some small changes
(added ppc403 characteristics like a exception vector prefix
register, some special register definitions). I am quite sure, they
are compatible with the existing sources, although I did not check
- c/src/exec/score/cpu/powerpc/cpu.c: There is one severe
limitation in the exception entries: Due to the current code
arrangement, the "branch absolute" to the ISR handler may only
jump to the first 128MByte or the last 128MByte of the 4GByte
address range. When the ppc403 is running out of ROM, the ROM
functions are located in the last 128MByte (0xFFF00000 and up).
These addresses were not handled correctly (sign reduced) in
"install_raw_handler". The change I added should work on existing
ppc BSPs aswell...
- c/src/lib/libc/termios.c: During my tests, I added one change you
sent me, so this patch will already be incorporated in the current
source tree.
There are some smaller changes, see the attached diff file.
=========================================
Concerning the GNU toolchain:
I tried several tool chains. Finally I almost succeeded with
egcs-1.0.3a with patch egcs-1.0.3-rtems-diff-19980527
I had to add the following lines to the egcs files. Without them
configure complaint that the cross compiler could not generate
executable output.
- additional lines needed in egcs distribution in file
gcc/config/rs6000/rtems.h:
+++ lines start
#undef STARTFILE_DEFAULT_SPEC
#define STARTFILE_DEFAULT_SPEC "ecrti.o%s"
#undef ENDFILE_DEFAULT_SPEC
#define ENDFILE_DEFAULT_SPEC "ecrtn.o%s"
++++ lines end
As far as I have seen in the Changelog of egcs, you have recently
sent two patches affecting the powerpc support, but they were
added in the wrong order.... :-(
egcs-19980628 with patch egcs-19980628-rtems-diff-19980707 does
not work!
I used binutils 2.9.1 with patch binutils-2.9.1-rtems-diff-19980515
(binutils 2.8.1 does not work, internal error in gas)
and newlib-1.8.0 with patch newlib-1.8.0-rtems-diff-19980707
Finally I had to poke a line in the "bit" script, since, on my LINUX
machine, the GNU make is only available as "make", not as
"gmake"...
For all the tools and newlib I selected configuration "powerpc-
rtems".
--------------------------------------------
IMD Ingenieurbuero fuer Microcomputertechnik
Thomas Doerfler Herbststrasse 8
D-82178 Puchheim Germany
email: td@imd.m.isar.de
Finally I am through: I have found the last bugs that made RTEMS-
4.0-beta3 start on my ppc403 board from ROM. So now the '403
support is up to date again.
Roughly I have added the following features:
- support for the on-chip interrupt controller (in a separate module)
- interrupt support for the console device
- termios support for the console device
==============================================
Since the BSP behaivour changed in some details (console no
longer is polling, other memory layout etc) I have created a new
BSP "helas403" rather than changing the "papyrus" BSP. The old
"polled" console driver still sticks around in "console.c.polled"
To get the BSP up and running, I had to create the new BSP files
(derived from papyrus). Besides that, the following source areas
have been changed:
- c/src/lib/libcpu/powerpc/ppc403: changes to console driver, small
changes to clock driver, new "ictrl" interrupt controller driver
- c/src/exec/score/cpu/powerpc/ppc.h: some small changes
(added ppc403 characteristics like a exception vector prefix
register, some special register definitions). I am quite sure, they
are compatible with the existing sources, although I did not check
- c/src/exec/score/cpu/powerpc/cpu.c: There is one severe
limitation in the exception entries: Due to the current code
arrangement, the "branch absolute" to the ISR handler may only
jump to the first 128MByte or the last 128MByte of the 4GByte
address range. When the ppc403 is running out of ROM, the ROM
functions are located in the last 128MByte (0xFFF00000 and up).
These addresses were not handled correctly (sign reduced) in
"install_raw_handler". The change I added should work on existing
ppc BSPs aswell...
- c/src/lib/libc/termios.c: During my tests, I added one change you
sent me, so this patch will already be incorporated in the current
source tree.
There are some smaller changes, see the attached diff file.
=========================================
Concerning the GNU toolchain:
I tried several tool chains. Finally I almost succeeded with
egcs-1.0.3a with patch egcs-1.0.3-rtems-diff-19980527
I had to add the following lines to the egcs files. Without them
configure complaint that the cross compiler could not generate
executable output.
- additional lines needed in egcs distribution in file
gcc/config/rs6000/rtems.h:
+++ lines start
#undef STARTFILE_DEFAULT_SPEC
#define STARTFILE_DEFAULT_SPEC "ecrti.o%s"
#undef ENDFILE_DEFAULT_SPEC
#define ENDFILE_DEFAULT_SPEC "ecrtn.o%s"
++++ lines end
As far as I have seen in the Changelog of egcs, you have recently
sent two patches affecting the powerpc support, but they were
added in the wrong order.... :-(
egcs-19980628 with patch egcs-19980628-rtems-diff-19980707 does
not work!
I used binutils 2.9.1 with patch binutils-2.9.1-rtems-diff-19980515
(binutils 2.8.1 does not work, internal error in gas)
and newlib-1.8.0 with patch newlib-1.8.0-rtems-diff-19980707
Finally I had to poke a line in the "bit" script, since, on my LINUX
machine, the GNU make is only available as "make", not as
"gmake"...
For all the tools and newlib I selected configuration "powerpc-
rtems".
--------------------------------------------
IMD Ingenieurbuero fuer Microcomputertechnik
Thomas Doerfler Herbststrasse 8
D-82178 Puchheim Germany
email: td@imd.m.isar.de
test were suggested by Ian Taylor <ian@airs.com> and Joel did the
hard part of putting it in aclocal and editting all the offending
Makefiles and source code which could use this feature.
<ian@airs.com>:
The pc386 linker scripts omits .gnu.linkonce.r* sections. It's not a
big deal, but they should be treated like .rodata sections. ELF
versions of g++ generate them for static constants defined in template
classes, such as string::npos.
The pc386 linker scripts omits .gnu.linkonce.r* sections. It's not a
big deal, but they should be treated like .rodata sections. ELF
versions of g++ generate them for static constants defined in template
classes, such as string::npos.
I found that my 68040/68360 test programs would not run even after
I fixed the `wrong BSP' problem.
It seems that there's a bug in the interrupt handling code for
processors with hardware interrupt stacks (e.g. 68040). The wrong
status register was getting pushed on the stack for the `return
from exception' to call _ISR__Dispatch. This ended up making
the context switch code run on the interrupt stack, so interrupt-driven
context switches would always fail.
I guess that no one has tried running any of the RTEMS-4.0 snapshots
on a 68040 machine!
Anyhow, here are the patches for
1) gen68360.cfg --- to fix the `wrong-BSP' problem.
2) m68k/cpu_asm.s --- to fix the hardware interrupt stack problem.
With these patches in place, the network demo programs run on my
68040/68360 system. The paranoia program runs with no failures,
defects nor flaws.
Please find enclosed a patch which enables me to build the bare-bsp for
sh-rtems.
Changes:
1. Add preinstall to libbsp/bare/include/Makefile.in
2. Removed FORCEIT, add preinstall to
libbsp/sh/gensh1/include/Makefile.in
3. Disabled support of set_vector from sh code (shared/setvec.c is still
present but isn't used anymore), set_vector replaced with standard rtems
functions.
Problems still present:
1. Support of spin-delays in bare bsp
2. Proper support of cpu frequency
To configure I used:
<srcdir>/configure \
--target=sh-rtems \
--prefix=<instdir>/sh-bare \
--enable-bare-cpu-model=sh7032 \
--enable-bare-cpu-cflags='-Wall -m1 -DMHZ=20
-DCPU_CONSOLE_DEVNAME="\"/dev/null\""'
--enable-rtemsbsp=bare \
--disable-networking \
--disable-cxx \
--disable-posix \
--disable-tests
IMO, if there are no objections to this patch, a similar approach should
be applied to all CPUs/BSPs (esp. hppa1.1, mips64orion, ppc403, because
they apply set_vector inside of libcpu).
Remember the test to see if a socket could be read and written at
the same time by two different tasks? I discovered that if both
tasks attempt to close the socket a panic can occur from inside the
BSD code.
Closing the same socket twice from two different threads is
certainly an error, but a panic is not the greatest error reporting
method :-)
The following small change to the socket close routine should reduce
the chances of the panic.
Please find attached a start.s that includes a cli prior to the hlt
instruction. This ensures that external interrupts cannot restart
the system after returning to the startup code. ( According to the hlt
docs, they will! )
Also find a new timer.c. ( I forgot to update the countdowm value
in the timer when I changed the PSCLK frequency in start.s) . This
improves timer accuracy.
The raw_idt_notify messages are no longer infinite, I tested sp11 and
sp05, both which were bad, and I have seen the message print once in
one test. I think it's ok if it prints out once. In fact, I don't
think you can effectively stop it!
