Raspberry Pi BSP debugging

[Alan Cudmore]

It was the alignment setting in the CP15. Everything works as I would 
expect now.

I will investigate the CP15 a little more and submit a patch.

Thanks everyone!

Alan


On 5/1/2013 10:38 AM, Gedare Bloom wrote:
> Could it be a matter of the compiler (not) knowing the correct
> alignment for the target architecture?
>
> To quote Sebastian from a recent post: "Please have a look in the
> ARM1176JZF-S manual.  You may have to enable the unaligned access in
> the CP15."
>
> -Gedare
>
> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Alan Cudmore <alan.cudmore at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm trying to track down a bug in the Raspberry Pi BSP. It will be much
>> easier once I get a JTAG device, but for now I have been able to narrow down
>> one specific instance where the BSP hangs.
>>
>> The first symptom of this problem was with a shell example. If I type an
>> invalid shell command, I noticed it will hang or crash on the strncat
>> function.
>>
>> Next, I modified the simple hello world sample and found that it will also
>> hang with a strncat call. I copied the strncat function from the newlib
>> sources and found that the local copies ( optimized for size and speed )
>> work. The attached example shows the two local strncat calls followed by the
>> newlib call. It will always hang on the newlib call.
>>
>> This example works on the arm920/gdb simulator and the sparc-sis simulator.
>>
>> Some other notes;
>> - The memory map looks reasonable, comparing it to the arm920 map
>> - Many other newlib functions work such as strncpy, printf, etc
>> - Much of the other basic RTEMS seem to work as well. I can create a RAM
>> disk, format it , mount it, copy files, etc. I ran many of the tests such as
>> unlimited, ticker, etc.
>>
>> If anyone has an idea I can try let me know. Otherwise I might just wait
>> until I can get a JTAG device hooked up.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alan
>>
>>
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