pc386 BSP - is it still supported?

[Angelo Fraietta]

No, I mean the pre built RPMs from the OARCorp site. I'll get the 
version numbers I am using tommorrow when I start my Linux machine up.
The pc386dx BSP was added after that release.

Robin Iddon wrote:

> Angelo,
>
>  
>
> Thanks for the answer - when you say the "latest linux build tools" do 
> you mean the native compiler under Linux, and if so, which version of 
> that compiler?  Did you rebuild them specially and call them 
> i386-rtems-xxx or do you just use /usr/bin/gcc?  I find that with the 
> latter approach I end up selecting all the wrong header files all the 
> time (e.g. termios.h).
>
>  
>
> Also I don't see a BSP called pc386dx - is this really just the pc386 
> BSP with some CPU= flags set to select the 386dx?
>
>  
>
> Will try out the getch() thing too!
>
>  
>
> Cheers,
>
> Robin
>
>  
>
>  
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>
>     From: Angelo Fraietta <mailto:angelo_f at bigpond.com>
>
>     To: Robin Iddon <mailto:robin at iddon.no-ip.com>
>
>     Cc: rtems-users at oarcorp.com <mailto:rtems-users at oarcorp.com>
>
>     Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 2:55 AM
>
>     Subject: Re: pc386 BSP - is it still supported?
>
>
>     I am using that bsp (actually the pc386dx which is identical
>     except that it does not use the math co-processor). I am using the
>     lastest snapshots with the latest linux build tools. Give it a go
>     and see how that works. I used getch (insetad of getc(STDIN) )from
>     the PC keyboard a while ago and it worked for me.
>
>     i.e
>
>     char c;
>     c = (char) getch();
>
>     See how that goes for you.
>
>     Robin Iddon wrote:
>
>>     Hi,
>>
>>      
>>
>>     I have tried to use the pc386 BSP with limited success.
>>
>>      
>>
>>     I started off with the 4.5.0 release, and I could build the BSP
>>     and boot it with GRUB onto my target.
>>
>>      
>>
>>     However, the "unlimited.exe" test appears to fail with hundreds
>>     of "thread exceptions" being reported to the console.  I tried to
>>     add in some "getc(stdin)" to the code to allow me to work out
>>     which of the three tests was causing the failure, but they caused
>>     it to hang (presumably stdin isn't the PC keyboard).
>>
>>      
>>
>>     The hello test does work, so it is something a little more subtle
>>     than it just not working.
>>
>>      
>>
>>     Anyway, I noticed that the whole 4.5.0 release is no quite old,
>>     so I downloaded the latest snapshot.  Unfortunately that doesn't
>>     build for the pc386 BSP.
>>
>>      
>>
>>     I am using the recommended compiler chain running under Linux.
>>
>>      
>>
>>     Can anyone offer me some advice on what to look for?
>>
>>      
>>
>>     Thanks in advance,
>>
>>      
>>
>>     Robin Iddon
>>
>>      
>>
>
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>
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