On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 10:38 AM Niteesh G. S. <niteesh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Which architecture should I try then? Maybe powerpc or mips? If you have > any > of them already built can you please try them out? Building everything from > source takes a lot of time in my dev machine. > > On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 6:41 PM Gedare Bloom <ged...@rtems.org> wrote: > >> On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 12:54 AM Niteesh G. S. <niteesh...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 11:43 PM Gedare Bloom <ged...@rtems.org> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 11:56 AM Niteesh G. S. <niteesh...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> > >> >> > Hello, >> >> > >> >> > While looking for small tasks to take up, Gedare mentioned about >> adding GDB BSPs >> >> > to rtems-tester. Can some please explain a bit more of what has to >> be done? I guess >> >> > we have to write configuration files for BSPs that support >> simulation in GDB. If so, how >> >> > could I find those BSPs, do I have to individually look at all the >> BSPs? >> >> > >> >> As I said off-list, I don't know if there's a list of GDB BSPs, but I >> >> know of at least: >> >> powerpc/psim >> >> mips/jmr3904 >> >> moxie/moxiesim >> >> arm/gdbarmsim >> >> sh/shsim >> >> >> >> I have no idea what any of their statuses are or if they are expected >> >> to work. The first step would be building them and see if they run >> >> anything. After that, you should look at the existing tester scripts >> for >> >> some targets: >> >> rtems-tools.git/tester/rtems/testing/bsps >> >> I see scripts for most of what I listed above, so the next step would >> >> be trying to run them via tester and see if it works. >> > >> > >> > I built the simsh1 BSP but couldn't get it running. Before trying it >> with rtems-run >> > and rtems-test I tried manually loading it in the simulator. But gdb >> doesn't respond >> > as soon as I execute the run command. The only way to exit it was using >> ctrl-c and GDB >> > responds with >> > sim_events_schedule_after_signal - buffer overflow >> > Quit >> > Aborted (core dumped) >> > I tried setting breakpoints within GDB but it never seems to hit them. >> I tried running the >> > examples through rtems-test results in ta imeout. >> > >> > Due to the slow internet connection and slow development machine, I >> could only build >> > and test a few BSPs. In case if anyone has an already built tool suite >> and BSP for the >> > mentioned arch please try them out. >> > >> I don't know that anyone uses this architecture. Don't spend too much >> effort trying to debug the simulator :) >> > mips jmr3904 and powerpc psim should work well. I agree with Gedare, spending a lot of time on the SH isn't high payoff. I'm glad for the report but there could be bitrot in the simulator or BSP. > >> >> BTW: Did I mention adding these to tester, or did I mention creating >> >> build sets for them? Anyway, I think the GDB simulator builds by >> >> default with the toolchain, so there is no difference between a BSP >> >> buildset (such as for jmr3904) and one that supports running on GDB. >> >> At least, I think so. It is worth verifying. >> >> >> >> Gedare >> >> >> >> > Thank you, >> >> > Niteesh. >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> >> > devel mailing list >> >> > devel@rtems.org >> >> > http://lists.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/devel >> >
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