Running RTEMS on a LEON2 from ROM

[Mike Looijmans]

On 25-07-17 14:42, Jiri Gaisler wrote:
> 
> On 07/25/2017 02:36 PM, Mike Looijmans wrote:
>> 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 ....
> 
> Why don't you run your code in the sis simulator? If you build RSB from
> git, you will also get sis with leon2 support. You can then enable a
> large trace buffer and execute the prom image until it crashes ...

Uh, well mostly because up until 10 seconds ago I had no idea what a "sis 
simulator" is.



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Mike Looijmans
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