Booting on Raspberry Pi

Robert Kaiser robert.kaiser at hs-rm.de
Wed Sep 11 07:02:52 CEST 2013


Hello,

Robert Kaiser wrote:
> Hello Adam
> 
> Robert Kaiser wrote:
>> Just tried a rawimage -> still silence on the serial port :-(. It may be
>> due a configuration mistake.
>> I guess I'll have to wade through the code to find out where it goes
>> wrong -- stay tuned.
> 
> I've tracked it down a little further:
> 
> Booting a rawimage basically works, i.e. the bootloader copies itself
> the right place in memory and starts executing. It gets to the point
> where it wants to print its first message -- and that's where it crashes
> :-(.
> 
> The crash happens during a division computed in fputs.c. The compiler
> calls a libgcc routine named __aeabi_uidiv which apparently throws an
> exception. (However it is *not* a divide by zero exception -- I have
> checked the values).
> 
> Time to try a different toolchain, I guess. So far, I have been using
> the linaro toolchain (gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.8-2013.08_linux).
> Can you please tell me which toolchain you have used (and where to
> obtain it)?

OK, I read somewhere else that the Codesourcery toolchain is
recommended. (You have to register with Mentor to obtain it which is why
I initially chose the linaro toolchain). Anyway: I recompiled everthing
with arm-2013.05/arm-none-linux-gnueabi. This fixed the crash problem,
so the linaro toolchain is definitely broken!

Unfortunately, it *still* doesn't work. The last messages I see trying
to run the bootstrap_hello example are:

MOE: cmdline: moe --init=rom/hello
MOE: Starting: rom/hello
MOE: loading 'rom/hello'
L4Re: unhandled exception: pc=0xffffff9c

Any hints what could be wrong now?

Cheers

Robert





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