Eric> NB : there is still a bug on PC386 serial line : exit does not
Eric> flush the remaining output queue. As this is not a bug in the
Eric> driver itself but somewhere in PC386 initialization/termios
Eric> relationship it will be part of another patch.
Eric> NB2 : As Emmanuel excerced the exception hanlder code, while
Eric> porting the SMC driver to the new BSD stack, we found a bug
Eric> in the exception handler : it shall not delete the current
Eric> thread in case we are running at interrupt level. This will
Eric> be part of another patch...
So here is the patch. This patch fixes the two problems mentionned above
+ it use vpath mechanism intead of copying the irq related files in
the right directory. This avoid to compile them each time and is
more homogenous with other Makefiles.
Here is a brief description of the attached patch :
1) There was a bug in the code for the COM2 serial line driver. Aleksey
gave me a fix that fixes the driver code itself. I would like to thank
him again publicly,
2) I introduced constants in the serial driver code because I had a hard
time reading the meanning of hexadecimal values in the NS data book :)
3)You can now mix printk and printf on serial line (tested on COM2).
There is a #ifdef PRINTK_ON_SERIAL in console.c that enables to have
printk on console while printf on serial line,
4) Removed call to displayCpuInfo because anyway if was at the wrong
place for serial line console (too early). It can anyway be called at
application level,
5) The original printk was unable to display negative integer values
and was also recursive. It now works corectly,
All the modifications have been tested here on the COM2 port from
a PC running RTEMS to a PC running linux,
NB : there is still a bug on PC386 serial line : exit does not flush the
remaining output queue. As this is not a bug in the driver itself but
somewhere in PC386 initialization/termios relationship it will be part
of another patch.
NB2 : As Emmanuel excerced the exception hanlder code, while porting the
SMC driver to the new BSD stack, we found a bug in the exception
handler : it shall not delete the current thread in case we are running
at interrupt level. This will be part of another patch...
I think I figured out why rtems_panic was locking up instead of
shutting down the executive and returning to the code that called
boot_card().
Later on there is code to print some messages on the standard error
stream, a recursive call back to rtems_verror (through rtems_error)
and finally a call to _exit().
I think that the _Thread_Disable_dispatch() is preventing the final
context switch back to the boot_card() code. Does this sound right
to you?
Celso Labinaz <labinaz@tin.it> pointed to me thatthe console on serial
line was not working. After spending quite a time to find the right
cable and software, I confirm this.
I'm going to debug this in the next days because I want to use the
serial line for debugging. In the meantime, in order to be sure that
this was a driver initialization/bug, I made printk work on the serial
line in order to be sure the receiver part and configuration was OK.
Here is the for printk on serial line. BTW, does anyone else use the
serial line facilities for PC? printf seems to output nothing (hello.exe
output everything that has a printk but application printf seems to be
broken).
The patch (rtems-rc-980821.diff) I had sent recently to fix the "make
install" problem in rtems-980821/make/ still contained a bug (Thanks to
Eric N. for reporting it).
The patch enclosed to this mail is a corrected version of this patch,
which finally should fix this problem.
Here is another patch to hopefully enhance rtems' configuration.
Motivation: Try to support other c-compilers besides gcc (I tried to
build rtems under Solaris using sun's WSPro c-compiler).
Here is a couple of small patches concerning the host compiler
configuration, which fix/work-around the worst problems when using sun's
WSPro c-compiler.
Changes:
* Replaced make/compilers/gcc.cfg with make/compilers/gcc.cfg.in, ie.
gcc.cfg is generated by configure now.
* Removed a line containing a hard-coded "gcc" from gcc.cfg (BUG-fix).
* Add -g to host compiler flags only if configure reported -g to work
* Add -Wall to host compiler flags only if configure reported that the
host compiler is gcc (WSPro's cc chokes on -Wall).
* Some modifications to make/Makefile.in
* Adapted make/custom/default.cfg to the new location of gcc.cfg
BTW, gcc.cfg/gcc.cfg.in seems to be full of unused code (DEBUG-VARIANTS
etc.) which deserves to be cleaned up, IMO.
IMO, a similar patch should be applied to gcc-target-default.cfg
