Nios2 problems when building tests

Morten Kristiansen millibit+rtems at gmail.com
Wed Mar 25 18:54:32 UTC 2009


As a shortcut, could you send me the binary image you have, please?

/MK

2009/3/25 Roger Dahlkvist <ruppe at kth.se>:
> Hi,
>
> Yes, I defenately think the errors are memory related. I'll look at the hints you gave.
>
> When I for example run hello.exe in the Altera NiosII ISS I get the following errors before the program terminates.
>
> Error! : Failed memory access in component cpu_0 - Reading data 0x0 from uninitialized memory (addr = 0x1f33c)
> Error! : Simulation failed in component cpu_0 at instruction 33372 (PC=0x8eb8 instr=0x2c000017).
>
> //Roger
>
> Roger Dahlkvist wrote:
>> Thanks, any help is greatly appreciated.
>>
>> The status for me right now is that I have switched to newlib-1.17.0.  I also changed both cpukit/wrapup/Makefile.am and c/src/wrapup/Makefile.am, as suggested.
>> That fixed most errors, now that both librtemscpu.a and librtemsbsp.a are added correctly.
>>
> Then you are probably close to in sync with what I have
> on my laptop at home.
>> I've tried myself to solve the remaining issues, by including /shared/bsppretaskinghook.c to libbsp.a, and define WorkAreaBase in linkcmds.
>> However the resulting tests fail in the simulator, so that might not have been the right way to go, or there are other things to consider aswell.
>>
>>
>
> How do the tests fail?
>
> Usually at this point it is memory layout.
>
> All BSPs now use the same framework for BSP initialization
> and most use exactly the same mechanism for dividing memory
> between the RTEMS Workspace and C program heap.
>
> Can you get debug IO via printk at this point on the simulator?
> If so, make printk work and turn on debugging in libbsp/shared/bootcard.c.
>
> If not, or if it is just as easy, trace through bootcard.c in the debugger
> and see if things look ok.
>
> Also (very common), the starting stack (the one the BSP start code
> runs on) may NOT be properly accounted for in the linkcmds and
> your work memory (workspace and C program heap) may overlap it.
> Then the init is clobbering the stack out from underneath you.
>
> _-joel
>> Looking forward to your inputs.
>>
>> //Roger
>>
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> Från: millibit at gmail.com [millibit at gmail.com] för Morten Kristiansen [millibit+rtems at gmail.com]
>> Skickat: den 24 mars 2009 09:30
>> Till: Joel Sherrill
>> Kopia: Roger Dahlkvist; rtems-users at rtems.com
>> Ämne: Re: Nios2 problems when building tests
>>
>> 2009/3/20 Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com>:
>>
>>> My full NIOS patches are at home.  Morten can help you
>>> get things going.
>>>
>> I should think so. I'll take a look at it this evening.
>>
>>
>>> The biggest issue you are facing is that the NIOS II binutils
>>> version Altera uses is TOO old for the feature used in cpukit/wrapup.
>>>
>> I fetched the relevant versions into Subversion and tried merging. It
>> wasn't straightforward, but as a quick solution I can create a patch
>> that allows it to read options from a file.
>>
>> /MK
>>
>
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