[ECOS] updated to new eCos version, asserts when first thread is resumed

[Gary Thomas]

On 03/14/2011 05:46 PM, Nathan French wrote:
> We just updated from eCos (pro) 2.0.91 to 3.0.9.1.  What I'm seeing is
> that during cyg_user_start(), as soon as we create a thread and
> cyg_thread_resume() it the kernel asserts in
> Cyg_Scheduler_Implementation::add_thread().
>
> The assert it is hitting is "Idle thread vanished!!!" but I believe it
> is due to the queue_map member of the scheduler not being initialized
> (it's a null pointer).  I'm admittedly a little confused as to how
> exactly the kernel starts up and constructs the scheduler.
>
> After some googling I became confused about whether I needed to call
> cyg_scheduler_start() and if so, where.  I tried calling this prior to
> resuming the thread but it failed in a very similar way (different
> assert, but same root cause).  I don't believe there is anything wrong
> with our application code but thought perhaps we had been doing
> something wrong all along and the newer eCos version enforces something
> now... but I haven't found any evidence of that.
>
> Any ideas?  Thanks in advance.

eCos(pro) ==> ask eCosCentric

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