[ECOS] redboot info threads problem

[Gary Thomas]

On 07-Dec-2000 Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> This seems to be wrong - possibly a holdover from a previous release.
>> You need 'CYGSEM_HAL_ROM_MONITOR' to be defined within RedBoot, which
>> will turn on the thread debug support.  Are you turning this off
>> explicitly?  If so, try not doing so.  I just checked that a RedBoot
>> built "out of the box" for the EBSA does this correctly.  Note: this
>> symbol is only defined for RedBoot in ROM.
> 
> The export file given in the redboot.txt explicitly turns this off,
> but in fact ecosconfig has already decided to turn it off..
> 
> lunn@tux:/lhome/lunn/ecos-work-sa-1.4.4.redboot-plain$
> /usr/local/pkg/plcuts/ecos-1.4.4/tools/bin/ecosconfig new ebsa redboot
> U CYGSEM_HAL_USE_ROM_MONITOR, new inferred value 0
> U CYGDBG_HAL_COMMON_CONTEXT_SAVE_MINIMUM, new inferred value 0
> U CYGDBG_HAL_DEBUG_GDB_INCLUDE_STUBS, new inferred value 1
> U CYGDBG_HAL_DEBUG_GDB_BREAK_SUPPORT, new inferred value 1
> U CYGDBG_HAL_DEBUG_GDB_CTRLC_SUPPORT, new inferred value 0
> 
> When i import redboot.ROM it stays off.
> 
> If it try to turn it on with 
> 
> cdl_option CYGSEM_HAL_USE_ROM_MONITOR {
>     user_value 1 GDB_stubs
> };
> 
> I get constraint conflicts it cannot resolve.

You definitely need STARTUP=ROM for it to work, otherwise you'll get
those unresolvable conflicts.

How new is your 'ecosconfig' (did you get a new one with 1.4.4)?

I can send you [privately] a RedBoot to try which I built here, just to
verify that the thread stuff works as expected.