Running RTEMS on a LEON2 from ROM

[Mike Looijmans]

On 25-07-17 12:51, Mike Looijmans wrote:
> On 25-07-17 12:13, Jiri Gaisler wrote:
>> I haven't looked at this for a while, but I remember that the trap table
>> usually sits in the beginning of the .text segment. RTEMS overwrites the
>> trap entries at boot so if the trap table is in PROM, you will get a
>> memory exception trap. To run from PROM, you will need to allocate a new
>> trap table in RAM (4k aligned) and change the %tbr register to point to
>> it. This has to be done early before the trap table is initialized by
> 
> Any hint on where this trap table allocation should happen in RTEMS code?
> 
>> RTEMS. An elegant way of doing this would be to place the trap table in
>> a separate linker section, and then putting it to the desired place with
>> a custom linker file. The %tbr register should then be initialized to
>> the start of the trap table section.
> 
> Simplest would be to put the trap table at the start of RAM (which will always 
> have page alignment) and let the data segment follow on that.
> 
> Simply directing the table into the data segment would work as well, I guess, 
> the init code copies it on boot along with the rest of the initialized data then.
> 

I did just that, the trap table now is at start of RAM, I left a small init 
vector at address 0 in ROM to jump to the startup code.

After copying the .data segment into RAM, I set the %tbr register, enable 
traps and continue. The table is indeed there at the first 4k of RAM now.

This executes okay, but no improvement yet. It does not even reach a 
breakpoint at "bsp_pretasking_hook".

Still RTEMS silently locks up. I'm soft of bisecting now how far it goes, 
since the backtrace is still blank ....

M.


Kind regards,

Mike Looijmans
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