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Re: eCos GNU tools 4.6.2-20120125 ready for testing
Hi Sergei
Sergei Gavrikov wrote:
> I tried to build and run "thumb" tests for NXP ARM7TDMI (LPC2294) using
> corresponding RedBoot/GDB
>
> ecos-v3_0-branchpoint GCC 4.3.2 most of tests failed
> ecos AnonCVS GCC 4.3.2 most of tests failed
> ecos AnonCVS GCC 4.6.2 most of tests failed
> ecos AnonCVS GCC 4.6.3 most of tests failed
>
> Thus, it looks like that GCC 4.6.2 is not point of those fails.
>
> BTW, I never tried ro run "thumb" blobs before on my target and maybe
> I should turn on/off more CDL options than just to force CYGHWR_THUMB
> option.
Enabling CYGHWR_THUMB should be sufficient. Be sure to "make clean" when
switching to Thumb. Also, check that the -mthumb and -mthumb-interwork
flags are definitely present during the building of your eCos tests.
> So, I agree with the said "Thumb support looks broken" at the least for
> lpc2xxx, lpc24xx variants, but, it seems to me it was broken even before
> eCos 3.0.
I have just verified that the kernel tm_basic test builds for target
eb40a (ARM7) with RAM startup and CYGHWR_THUMB. The resulting binary
runs under debug (via RedBoot) without problem. This is using the new
eCos 4.6.2-20120125 test release toolchain.
There could be a Thumb-related issue within a certain variant/platform
HAL or device driver package.
John Dallaway
eCos maintainer
http://www.dallaway.org.uk/john