CONFIGURE_APPLICATION_NEEDS_CLOCK_DRIVER macro issue

[Michel Macena]

It is the ERC 32 chipset version (TSC691, TSC692 and TSC693 units), The
Board was manufactured by Tharsys, a french company, but it does not
exist anymore. The board manual dates from 2000.

Em sex, 30 de ago de 2019 às 17:53, Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> escreveu:

>
>
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2019, 11:35 AM Michel Macena <mmacena.eng at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the answer, but the ticker sample program
>> has this macro in his system.h header. I can compile a program
>> with this macro but when  I load it, the board just ignores it an then
>> reset. If I change the
>> macro for the opposite one ("does not need the clock driver") the program
>> just works, except that I can't
>> use any time related routine. Also without the clock drive driver enabled
>> I can't communicate with the board (send and receive data).
>> I understand that the Macro enables the clock drive but how this happens
>> ? It changes a register value  in the chip ?
>>
>
> Setting that macro adds the clock driver to the set of statically
> installed device drivers. The code is in bsps/sparc/erc32/clock. It uses a
> timer on the erc32.
>
> Check that it survives initialising the clock and gets the interrupt ok.
>
> This isn't something I have heard of before. Is this a very early erc32?
> Just wondering with nothing specific in mind.
>
> --joel
>
>
>
>> Em sex, 30 de ago de 2019 às 03:21, Sebastian Huber <
>> sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de> escreveu:
>>
>>> On 30/08/2019 19:09, Michel Macena wrote:
>>> > I still have the issue with the macro #define
>>> > CONFIGURE_APPLICATION_NEEDS_CLOCK_DRIVER. I tried
>>> > a different version of RTEMS but It didn't work. Can someone explain
>>> me
>>> > how this macro works? So I can
>>> > try to figure out some patch or fix for my hardware.
>>>
>>> This configuration option enables the clock driver.
>>>
>>> I would run first the RTEMS test suite on your target. For example start
>>> with the ticker sample program.
>>>
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