Whats allowed in the Init() task

Joel Sherrill joel.sherrill at OARcorp.com
Fri Mar 1 17:10:29 UTC 2013


On 3/1/2013 10:56 AM, Matthew J Fletcher wrote:
> Gedare,
>
> Yes the "hello" example works fine. I just tried the "ticker" example, 
> but rtems_clock_set() returns RTEMS_INVALID_CLOCK. Odd, maybe the 
> samples dont get tested very often.
>
They get run all the time. I am heading off for the weekend but will try to
run it on something I have a simulator for.
> It _TOD_Validate() is rejecting the time set in the example, and i am 
> literally using the code from the example. Its returning false at the 
> first 'if' test, the big one checking against the constants.
>
> Is the test for 'the_tod->year < TOD_BASE_YEAR' correct given then are 
> equal at 1988 ?
>
Yes.
>
> On 1 March 2013 15:40, Gedare Bloom <gedare at rtems.org 
> <mailto:gedare at rtems.org>> wrote:
>
>     On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Matthew J Fletcher
>     <amimjf at gmail.com <mailto:amimjf at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     > Do rtems applications normally create a new task straight away
>     in Init() ? i
>     > ask because i seem to get stuck with no threads being scheduled
>     after the
>     > first Clock_isr.
>     >
>     By the time Init gets executed the entire application stack should be
>     set up and multithreading/interrupts should work fine. Init can either
>     create new tasks, or execute the workload directly.
>
>     > So after boot_card() completes rtems context switches into
>     Init(), there i
>     > setup my 10ms tick ISR which calls rtems_clock_tick(). But the
>     original
>     > thread Init() never gets scheduled again after the first call to
>     > rtems_clock_tick(). I've used JTAG to place breakpoints and i
>     can see the
>     > code in Init() is not being run.
>     >
>     I don't understand what you mean about Init setting up the clock tick.
>     The ISR for clock handling should be installed during rtems
>     initialization when the clock driver is installed. Have you
>     successfully executed the "hello" sample on your board? If so the next
>     one to test is ticker, which should give you an idea of whether the
>     clock tick + context switch is working.
>
>     -Gedare
>
>     > I can see the ISR is being called and the interrupt acknowledged
>     due to
>     > breakpoints there.
>     >
>     > Interestingly although i am using the arm-rtemseabi4.11-gdb
>     'info threads'
>     > only shows the current context of the ISR not the Init() thread,
>     that might
>     > be a different issue though.
>     >
>     >
>     > regards
>     > ---
>     > Matthew J Fletcher
>     >
>     >
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>
>
> -- 
>
> regards
> ---
> Matthew J Fletcher
>


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