Hello world Ada-example on RaspberryPi

[Jan Sommer]

Am Montag, 6. Juli 2015, 13:27:34 schrieb Joel Sherrill:
> 
> Where is the delay initiated? in Ada code? a POSIX call? or with rtems_task_wake_after()?
>

In the Ada code of the hello.adb file of the example:

procedure Hello is
begin
   Put_Line ("*** GNAT/RTEMS Hello World Test ***");
   New_Line;
   Put_Line ("Welcome to the World of Lady Ada");

   New_Line;
   Put_Line ("Initiating 2.5 second delay");
   delay 2.5;
   Put_Line ("Delay Complete");

   Put_Line ("*** END OF GNAT/RTEMS Hello World Test ***");
end Hello;
 
> Ultimately, the run-time translates Ada operations into POSIX calls.

Ok, so if it works in POSIX-C calls then it should work in Ada as well (given that the runtime calls the right POSIX functions).

> 
> But under the hood, the smallest unit of time for a delay is a clock tick.
> So if it is 10 milliseconds, then every delay < that will be 10 milliseconds
> or greater.

I don't believe that is the issue here. The delay is 2.5 s and a tick is either 10 or 1 ms.
This should have enough margin. 

> Just to make sure the math in the Pi clock driver is OK, it would be
> a good idea to change the microseconds per tick value in the ticker
> sample. If it stays true to running ~30 seconds, then the math is right
> in the driver. If it doesn't remain true to "real world" time, then
> the math in the Pi clock driver may be wrong.

Ok. Will try that next.