Problems with l4linux
Valery V. Sedletski
_valerius at mail.ru
Wed Oct 22 07:00:04 CEST 2008
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:53:30 +0200, Adam Lackorzynski wrote:
>> No, I tried this option in loader config file (roottask does not
>> understand such option) and no difference from allow_cli, the same
>> effect: roottask gives all IO ports to loader and loader gives all
>> 65535 ports to l4linux. You can ensure by looking at serial output:
>
>Ok, good. Looks like I could have screwed it up. Please try to make the
>'#if 0' in arch/l4/kernel/arch-i386/ioport.c into a '#if 1'. That should
>make a difference.
>
I unmommented the fragment and recompiled, but an error appeared:
loader | vmlinuz26: Starting application using libld-l4.s.so
loader | [36mvmlinuz26,#f: Loading binary[m
loader | vmlinuz26,#f: Loading ldso
loader | vmlinuz26,#f: Starting libld-l4.s.so at 000138e0 via 0000cbe8
l4lx | [34;1m======> L4Linux 2.6 starting... <========[0m
l4lx | Linux version 2.6.26-l4-svn119-dirty2 (root at localhost) (gcc version 4
l4lx : .2.2 20071128 (prerelease) (4.2.2-3mdv2008.0)) #5 Wed Oct 22 15:59:47
l4lx : PETST 2008
l4lx | Binary name: vmlinuz26
l4lx | Linux kernel command line (8 args): mem=100M video=l4fb:refreshsleep:
l4lx : 200 l4fb.nograb=1 load_ramdisk=1 ramdisk_size=40960 root=/dev/ram l4e
l4lx : nv_rd=(nd)/tftpboot/drops/ramdisk/drops-fp.rd panicblink=0
l4lx | Image: 00400000 - 00854000 [4432 KiB].
l4lx | Areas: Text: 00400000 - 0075d000 [3444kB] (a bit longer)
l4lx | Data: 0075d000 - 00782978 [150kB]
l4lx | Initdata: 00786000 - 007bb000 [212kB]
l4lx | BSS: 007bc000 - 0085393c [606kB]
l4lx | l4lx_thread_create: Created thread 0f.03 (tamer0)
l4lx | Tamer0 is 0f.03
l4lx | Using tamed mode.
ROOT: Sending all ports (for cli/sti) to task #0d
l4lx | Got 65536 out of 65536 I/O ports
l4lx | L4RM: unknown exception src=F.02 exc=-5 ip=00405afd data=0,0
con | vc_loop(): vc[1] running as C.07
con | vc[1] 800x600 at 16, bpl:1600, gmode:0x25, evprt:E.03 save:0
run | contxt_init(): 800x582, cols:100, lines:41, sb_lines:1041
>> I finally got wifi working! The reason was that for some unknown reason /sbin/udevd does not start in L4Linux
>> (but in normal linux it does). So, I launched it manually. After that I did "modprobe ipw2200" and it started! -- I read the
>> README file from Linux kernel sources in Documentation\networking and it mentions that firmware is loaded by udev.
>> So, I checked if udev is runnig and the result. Also, for some reason, /sys does not mount, but it is mounted automatically
>> in normal linux (I have corresponding /etc/fstab entry) but when I do "mount /sys" it is mounted.
>
>I see no reason why it couldn't work, right now because it works for me
>(using Debian).
>
>> But still X11 complains about not having all I/O privileges.
>>
>> PS: When I did "modprobe serial_cs" udev created ttyS0..ttyS3 devices but still no comm port access. So, access to video
>> and comm-ports don't work but network and disks are working. Why could it be?
>
>Sorry, no idea with the card. It doesn't say anything strange in dmesg?
>
Only that serial_cs module prints the message that it could not access high memory. I hope this error disappear after linux will
get I/O privileges
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