Problems in boot_card() with configuration

[Joel Sherrill]

On 2/14/2013 1:09 PM, Matthew J Fletcher wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using RTEMS 4.10.2, and a custom BSP based on the ARM rtl22xx.
>
> I am running through the asm startup ok and calling into boot_card(),
> stepping through its all working fine, work_area_start, work_area_size,
> heap_start and heap_size are setup as i expect from my linkscript.
>
> But the test of "work_area_size <= Configuration.work_space_size" fails
> because Configuration.work_space_size looks like 0xfffffff, the only
> place that assigns to Configuration.work_space_size is a few lines
> further down.
>
> Does this code presume that the BSP has set the Configuration structure
> to zero, or the whole memory ? even so the aforementioned test seems odd
> as its just testing memory has been initialised.
>
> Or am i missing some RTEMS initialisation call that needs to be done
> before boot_card() ?
No but there may be some basic C language assumptions not
being met. Configuration is in the .data section and that value
does not look like it was initialized to.

Is your download correct?
>
> - Matthew
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