4.7 Power PC bare builds

[Chris Johns]

gmarsden at cogeco.ca wrote:
> Using 4.6.99.2 snapshot, Centos 4.0 (redhat) host
> If I try and build rtems with the following, I get two
> problems in the build and what looks like a compiler bug
> when I try and run the network demo application.
> 
> ../rtems-4.6.99.2/configure --prefix=/opt/rtems-4.7 --target=powerpc-rtems4.7 --disable-rtems-inlines --disable-posix
> --disable-itron --enable-networking --enable-bare-cpu-model="mpc8260" --enable-bare-cpu-cflags="-g -mcpu=603e -O2
> -fomit-frame-pointer -mstrict-align -Dmpc8260 -DPPC_ABI=PPC_ABI_EABI -DPPC_ASM=PPC_ASM_ELF" --enable-rtemsbsp="bare"
>

I do not think the 'bare' options are present anymore. The 'bare' idea 
has evolved into multilib support which is much better. See:

  http://www.rtems.org/wiki/index.php/Multilib_RTEMS

> 1. The build breaks down when it trys to build the
> serial and networking chips in libchip. I don't know whether it should be even trying to build these.

I do not think these are built in the current multilib support.

> 2. The --enable-bare-cpu-cflags are not passed to gcc when
> I do the subsequent "gmake all"
> 
> 3. When I work around the above and build an app, there
> is a problem reenabling interrupts in the inline function
> _CORE_semaphore_Seize_isr_disable in rtems_semaphore_obtain.
> It seems to be a compiler bug where it uses the wrong value when it restores the MSR. I copied a renamed version of the
> inline function into the semobtain.c file and the networking demo now works.


-- 
  Chris Johns