Problem with L4re and L4Linux on Qemu/VMware

Daniel (Xiaolong) Wang xiaolongw at mail.usf.edu
Tue Jun 27 17:20:58 CEST 2017


Thank you Jean! You are absolute right. Adam’s response reminded me, I checked the manual yesterday evening. Turns out there is a watchdog timer that I had never noticed.

Thank you very much!
-Dan
> On Jun 27, 2017, at 2:47 AM, Jean Wolter <jean.wolter at kernkonzept.com> wrote:
> 
> On 27/06/17 01:09, Daniel (Xiaolong) Wang wrote:
>> I tried the “hello” target as you suggested turns out it also get reboot after print out “Hello World!”  48 times. Is there a watchdog config in Fiasco or L4re I’m not aware of? Or it is due to how I load the uimage?
>> 
>> I loaded the bootstrap_hello.uimage as this:
>> # U-Boot SPL 2014.04-00014-g47880f5 (Apr 22 2014 - 13:23:54)
> It looks like the TI am335x has a watchdog, which is enabled by uboot (at least here in include/configs/ti_am335x_common.h, uboot 2016.11). So it looks like uboot leaves the watchdog in an enabled state and expects the booted system to handle the watchdog.
> 
> You could try to disable the watchdog in uboot or try to enable the watchdog driver in l4linux (or add code to pkg/bootstrap to disable the watchdog before starting fiasco, or write a small watchdog server on top of l4, ...) ...
> 
> regards,
> Jean
> 

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