Help with Bochs Needed (PROBLEM SOLVED)

Erwin Rol mailinglists at erwinrol.com
Mon Oct 25 20:27:44 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 14:37 -0500, Richardson, Anthony wrote:
> Erwin Rol wrote:
> > 
> > I saw that problem too, it seems to hang in the timer calibration
> > routines. Could you try if the following line in yer bochs config file
> > helps.
> > 
> > clock: sync=none, time0=local
> > 
> > - Erwin
> 
> Although, this didn't help in my particular case it led me to try
> different Bochs related timer/clock parameters.  Changing the
> value of ips from 900000 to 1000000 caused the problem to go
> away.  Values of ips of 900000 or lower cause the latest
> RTEMS executables to lock up.  Older RTEMS executables (from the
> contrib grub floppy) work fine with lower value of ips.
> 

cool :-)  my setting is 500,000 so it is really CPU speed dependent.
Maybe the calibration routine can't handle the really slow bochs CPU and
gets some rounding or overflow problems? 

> Thanks for the help!
> 

No thank you :-)

> Tony

- Erwin





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