sparc-erc32 testsuites failures

[Niteesh]

I know this, but the docs are not updated so should I send a pull request?


On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 12:06 PM Vaibhav Gupta <vaibhavgupta40 at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Mon, Nov 18, 2019, 11:12 AM Niteesh <gsnb.gn at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 3:17 AM Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:
>>
>>> The instructions are out of date by a couple of months. The SPARC
>>> Instruction Simulator (sis) has seen significant enhancements and it's now
>>> a standalone program. It is not enabled as a built-in with gdb because
>>> that's some very old version of sis. The new version has symmetric
>>> multiprocessing and support for the RISC-V.
>>>
>>> Those instructions worked for a LONG time but need to be updated to
>>> reflect the recent changes with SIS.
>>>
>>> If you used rtems-tester, it should work. And looking at the .ini file
>>> for this bsp will sure you have to just run programs with the simulator. My
>>> recollection is that by adding -gdb argument, you can attached to it as a
>>> remote debugger.
>>>
>> Yes. And I also faced this problem (in my case it was riscv)and i guess
> this question was asked by others also on devel.
> I simply used these steps:
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> Open Terminal 1:
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> $ sparc-rtems5-sis -gdb
>
>         # It will print 'gdb: listening on port 1234'.
>
>         # Note you can define port number with '-port' option.
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> Open Terminal 2:
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> $ sparc-rtems5-gdb hello.exe
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>         # gdb asks for several inputs
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>                 $ target extended-remote localhost:1234
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>                 $ load
>
>                 $ r
>
> You will see output in Terminal 1.
>
>> I would like to update the docs for this, Can I proceed? I am planning to
>> change the cmd to use erc-sis instead of erc. And also the build your
>> application section is incomplete, can I add the instruction to modify a
>> test program and build it in this section?
>>
>>> BTW I know it's a way too early for GSOC but I have anyway attached the
>>>> patch for hello world.
>>>>
>>>
>>> What type projects are you interested in?
>>>
>> I am interested in driver development and BSP support.
>>
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