[PATCH 00/10] Raspberry Pi 2 (BCM2836) SMP support

[Pavel Pisa]

Hello Chris and others,

On Sunday 11 of September 2016 08:53:09 Chris Johns wrote:
> On 09/09/2016 17:47, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> > On 09/09/16 09:43, Pavel Pisa wrote:
> >> Hello Chris and others,
> >>
> >> On Friday 09 of September 2016 02:06:19 Chris Johns wrote:
> >>> >On 09/09/2016 07:46, Pavel Pisa wrote:
> >>>> > >I have provided simple bsp_reset() for Raspberry Pi and pushed it
> >>>>
> >>>> into
> >>>>
> >>>> > >master.
> >>> >
> >>> >Thank you. Is the reset on exit on by default? I rebuilt without a BSP
> >>> >opt and the Rpi2 did not reset. I see a reference to
> >>> >BSP_RESET_BOARD_AT_EXIT but I do not know what the default is.
> >>> >
> >>> >I think*all*  RTEMS BSPs should reset on exit and shut-down by
> >>> > default. It is the normal production setting for most systems.
> >>
> >> Mainly for others, the BSP default cleanup operations
> >> selection mechanism is defined in
> >>
> >>    rtems/c/src/aclocal/bsp-bspcleanup-options.m4
> >>
> >> RTEMS_BSP_CLEANUP_OPTIONS
> >> dnl USAGE:
> >> dnl    RTEMS_BSP_CLEANUP_OPTIONS([0|1], [0|1], [0|1])
> >> dnl WHERE:
> >> dnl    argument 1 indicates the default value for
> >> BSP_PRESS_KEY_FOR_RESET dnl    argument 2 indicates the default value
> >> for BSP_RESET_BOARD_AT_EXIT dnl    argument 3 indicates the default
> >> value for
> >> BSP_PRINT_EXCEPTION_CONTEXT
> >
> > Maybe it makes sense to remove the ability to change the default, so
> > what all BSPs have the same defaults. You can change the behaviour via
> > the configure command line if needed.
>
> Yes I think this is the way we should head. Any BSP which does not reset
> and start again by default needs to be changed making the default state
> for a BSP production ready. This statement covers this configure option
> plus it covers things like pressing a key which the PC BSP has on by
> default and should be defaulted to off.

May it be that RTEMS_BSP_CLEANUP_OPTIONS should not define
default but provide information which options are supported
for given BSP.

Best wishes,

              Pavel