[pc386 BSP] ticker.exe issue (CVS head)

[Karel Gardas]

On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Joel Sherrill wrote:

> Karel Gardas wrote:
>
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I was not able to find out which toolchain combination I used in August 
>> 2005, nor which exact version of RTEMS I used that days. I've tried to get 
>> back in CVS history, but also w/o success.
>> 
>> Anyway, I tried to debug this issue, and I started with hacking ticker.exe 
>> test. I've added some printfs and/or a bit waiting before creating next 
>> task and now I see at least TA3 is running as expected. The issue is while 
>> others are not running/ticking?
>> 
>> See patch below. If you uncomment added printfs, TA3 should run well. If I 
>> keep it as it is, tasks are just started and after short period of time I 
>> get a lot of messages to the console -- I cannot read them, since it 
>> scrolls too fast and its VGA. I've tried the same in Qemu and got:
>> silence:/images$ ~/usr/local/qemu-2005-12-18/bin/qemu -fda 
>> /images/grub-boot.flp
>
>
> I get the same thing with my RPMs but when I use my gcc tools from the head,
> ticker runs.  They were built January 24.

You mean gcc from trunk? i.e. 4.2 experimental? If so, then which 
binutils?

> Also FWIW I am using a serial port as a console on qemu. 
> Looking at the address, my first guess would be a blown stack
> somewhere.

Yes, but how is it possible and especially how is it possible with so many 
gcc/binutils toolchain combination? The pity is I'm not able to find the 
source tree I used for pc386 timer hacking in August 2005, that might help 
us with debugging of this...

Thanks,
Karel
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