L4 Linux and compatibility with other L4 servers

[Adam Lackorzynski]

On Mon May 16, 2005 at 11:56:45 +0100, Tiago Jorge wrote:
> 
> >You can use bmodfs. That's a file provider that only uses memory
> >(l4/pkg/generic_fprov/examles/bmodfs). An usage example is on the
> >webpage (http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/L4/LinuxOnL4/use-2.6.shtml).
> >
> thanks for the example.
> but maybe because it's monday morning ;) i didn't understand well the 
> way to use the bmodfs server. i've been able to boot with tftp but where 
> i'm going to place this in use i don't have tftp availability.
> i've done the following menu.lst entry
> 
> title        Fiasco Linux L4Env
> root        (hd0,0)
> kernel        /home/tiago/fiasco_builddir/rmgr -sigma0 task modname "bmodfs"
          module module module
> modaddr        0x02000000
> module        /home/tiago/fiasco_builddir/main -nokdb -nowait -serial_esc -comspeed 115200 -comport 1
> module        /home/tiago/fiasco_builddir/sigma0
> module        /home/tiago/fiasco_builddir/names
> module        /home/tiago/fiasco_builddir/log
> module        /home/tiago/fiasco_builddir/dm_phys
> module        /home/tiago/fiasco_builddir/simple_ts -t 300
> module        /home/tiago/fiasco_builddir/rtc
> module        /home/tiago/fiasco_builddir/l4io --noirq
> module        /home/tiago/fiasco_builddir/bmodfs
>   module        /home/tiago/fiasco_builddir/libloader.s.so
>   module        /home/tiago/fiasco_builddir/loadercfg
>   module        /home/tiago/fiasco_builddir/vmlinuz.l4env
> module        /home/tiago/fiasco_builddir/l4exec
> module        /home/tiago/fiasco_builddir/loader --fprov=BMODFS /home/tiago/fiasco_builddir/loadercfg
> 
> what am i doing wrong?
> btw, the libloader.s.so it's giving the error that it's accessing the 
> position 0x0000000 of memory. am i loading it correctly?

Rmgr is trying to start a shared lib which isn't supposed to work, so
this is ok.

You need to add as many module statements to the rmgr command line as
modules you are adding to bmodfs, so 3 for the above case. This way the
following 3 modules are added as modules to bmodfs and are not started
by rmgr.

> >tftp will only interfere with the network card, so if you do not use
> >tftp, this will go away, yes. Note, start l4io with --noirq so that l4io
> >doesn't take the irqs.
> >
> now it's more a technical question.
> if i use l4io with that option, who will manage the irqs? will it be 
> l4linux with l4irqack=linux option on? how the information will reach 
> the l4io server so it can go into other server that use l4io?

l4io --noirq makes l4io not touch the IRQs so that they are still kept
by RMGR. An application can then do rmgr_get_irq to get a specific IRQ
and then use the normal l4_ipc calls for interrupts.
Withtout the --noirq option, l4io gets all the interrupts and offers
them to clients via the omega0 interface. All applications now need to
use the omega0 interface. L4Linux can use both interfaces and I guess
they even both work right now.
BTW, the l4irqack=linux option has no affect for 2.6.


Adam
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