Purpose of RISCV_GCC_RED_ZONE_SIZE?

2018-06-26 Thread Sebastian Huber
Hello, the RISC-V port has a RISCV_GCC_RED_ZONE_SIZE define. What is the purpose? The current ABI says that there is no stack red zone: https://github.com/riscv/riscv-elf-psabi-doc/blob/master/riscv-elf.md "Procedures must not rely upon the persistence of stack-allocated data whose addresses

Re: [GSoC - x86_64] Console / serial communication

2018-06-26 Thread Amaan Cheval
Brilliant, thank you for the quick response and clarification! On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 10:51 AM, Sebastian Huber wrote: > On 27/06/18 06:59, Amaan Cheval wrote: >> >> Quick question since the BSP guide is outdated - I see several >> "methods" of RTEMS' console management. The guide says to use >>

Re: [GSoC - x86_64] Console / serial communication

2018-06-26 Thread Sebastian Huber
On 27/06/18 06:59, Amaan Cheval wrote: Quick question since the BSP guide is outdated - I see several "methods" of RTEMS' console management. The guide says to use console-termios.c (and rtems_termios_device_install) as the "new" method. https://docs.rtems.org/branches/master/bsp-howto/console.ht

Re: [GSOC - Tracing] Status Update

2018-06-26 Thread Sebastian Huber
Hello Vidushi, On 22/06/18 03:16, Vidushi Vashishth wrote: Progress so far: - Still working on adding rtrace shell capability to convert RTEMS traces into CTF. There has been progress which I will push to (https://github.com/VidushiVashishth/rtems) by end of today. I don't see an update in

Re: [GSoC - x86_64] Console / serial communication

2018-06-26 Thread Amaan Cheval
Hi! Quick question since the BSP guide is outdated - I see several "methods" of RTEMS' console management. The guide says to use console-termios.c (and rtems_termios_device_install) as the "new" method. https://docs.rtems.org/branches/master/bsp-howto/console.html#build-system-and-files Most BSPs

Re: [PATCH] cpu-supplement: Add ARM BSPs chapter

2018-06-26 Thread Chris Johns
On 26/06/2018 19:23, Sebastian Huber wrote: > > I checked in the patch. If the section becomes too large, we can split it on > demand. The content is contained in separate files and thus easy to move. > Good idea, lets see how this evolves. Fewer manuals is simpler for searching. Thanks Chris _

Re: [PATCH] cpu-supplement: Add ARM BSPs chapter

2018-06-26 Thread Sebastian Huber
On 06/06/18 08:57, Sebastian Huber wrote:     2. The size of this Chapter 9 BSPs eventually is going to become much     larger compared to the rest of the manual. It might make better sense     to create it as a supplemental document that you refer to from 8.3     Board Support Packages (BSP).

[PATCH] user: Add BSP chapter for each architecture

2018-06-26 Thread Sebastian Huber
Update #3464. --- user/bsps/bsps-aarch64.rst| 7 +++ user/bsps/bsps-bfin.rst | 7 +++ user/bsps/bsps-epiphany.rst | 7 +++ user/bsps/bsps-i386.rst | 7 +++ user/bsps/bsps-lm32.rst | 7 +++ user/bsps/bsps-m68k.rst | 7 +++ user/bsps/bsps-m

Re: [GSoC - x86_64] Console / serial communication

2018-06-26 Thread Amaan Cheval
On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 12:15 PM, Chris Johns wrote: > On 26/06/2018 14:29, Amaan Cheval wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 4:10 AM, Chris Johns wrote: >>> On 25/06/2018 21:40, Amaan Cheval wrote: >>> >>> Will a text based video console be supported? >> >> As above, I can't say :P >> The only guid