[ECOS] floating point

[Nick Garnett]

davidw@dedasys.com (David N. Welton) writes:

> Ok, so I tried a few things to debug it:
> 
> __fpu_switch_vsr:
>         movb $'a',(0xb8000)
> 
> And I don't see it showing up.
> 
> The code to intall __fpu_switch_vsr is getting run, but it
> doesn't seem to set things up quite right.
> 
> This makes things work ok:
> 
> 	hal_pc_exception_noerr  4
> 	hal_pc_exception_noerr  5	
> 	hal_pc_exception_noerr  6
> #	hal_pc_exception_noerr  7
> hal_pc_exception_7:
> 	movl	$0,hal_trap_error_code
> 	pushl	$7
> 	incl	(hal_vsr_stats+7*4)
> 	jmp	__fpu_switch_vsr
> 
> Trying to figure out why it's not setting things up automatically.

The most likely thing is that the VSR is getting re-set to something
else later.

I did some work on the floating point stuff a few months ago to make
stand-alone applications work correctly. 

What version of eCos are you using? The latest repository?
What startup type are you using? Have you tried using a rebuilt
RedBoot?

I've just re-tested running RAM apps over RedBoot here with both lazy
and non-lazy FPU switching and it all seems to work OK. Even doing FP
stuff in cyg_start() works.



-- 
Nick Garnett - eCos Kernel Architect
http://www.eCosCentric.com/


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