New MPC5554 port messed up, context initialization question

[Joel Sherrill]

On 05/13/2010 06:42 AM, Peter Dufault wrote:
> I'm updating to the latest current and my code on the MPC5554 stopped working.  I traced it to messed up SPE registers (I'm using my own context switch code sent to Thomas D.).
>
> The reason is I'm swapping in an uninitialized context for the SPEFSCR register.  I wasn't setting it up in _CPU_Context_Initialize().
>
> Was I just lucky until today?  The only thing I can guess is it was 0 before; was anything changed to not zero those register contexts?
>    
How old was the old RTEMS version?  I think 4.9 was when things
changed to defaulting to NOT zeroing out memory.  So after that
change you could get non-zero at init.

I think you were just lucky. :)

Please file a PR with a patch.

--joel
> Peter
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> Peter Dufault
> HD Associates, Inc.      Software and System Engineering
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