Re: SweetAda 0.1e released

[Roger Mc <rogermcm2@gmail.com>]

On Sunday, July 26, 2020 at 2:17:42 AM UTC+10, gabriele.g...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Saturday, July 25, 2020 at 3:44:57 PM UTC+2, Roger wrote:
> > On Thursday, July 23, 2020 at 4:03:06 AM UTC+10, gabriele....@gmail.com wrote: 
> > > Hi all. I've just released SweetAda 01.e. 
> > > 
> > > Go to http://www.sweetada.org and download the archive. RTS and LibGCC packages are still valid @ 0.1c. 
> > > 
> > > - general cleanup and cosmetics 
> > > - general infrastructure improvements 
> > > - QEMU-RISC-V-32 target can do serial output in a terminal 
> > > - IntegratorCP target uses LCD VGA 
> > > - Malta MIPS target uses a VGA PCI board 
> > > - handling of directories in the cpus hierarchy, which allows selective unit overriding 
> > > - Insight can be called as a toolchain component 
> > > - IOEMU configuration files are now fully consistent 
> > > 
> > > Next days I will to concentrate on generic low-level CPU support, documentation, and restructuring of some redundant units. Let me know, feedback is highly appreciated. 
> > > 
> > > G 
> > I have not been able to build with 1e menu.sh. 
> > The make case statement in menu.sh seems to not get activated. 
> > In particular, no kernel.cfg file is generated. 
> > I copied the make statements from 1d into the 1e menu.sh and make occurred until: 
> > 
> > [RANLIB] libplatform.a 
> > [GPRBUILD-C] build.gpr 
> > [GPRBUILD-B] build.gpr 
> > gprbuild: unable to find binder driver /opt/sweetada/libexec/gprbuild/gprbind 
> > make: *** [Makefile:586: kernel_compile_gpr] Error 4 
> > 
> > PC-x86-64: start kernel build. 
> > 
> > [GPRBUILD-C] build.gpr 
> > [GPRBUILD-B] build.gpr 
> > gprbuild: unable to find binder driver /opt/sweetada/libexec/gprbuild/gprbind 
> > make: *** [Makefile:586: kernel_compile_gpr] Error 4 
> > 
> > After this I removed the 1d statements and tried the original 1e menu.sh. 
> > As before ./menu.sh generated nothing. 
> > But I individual menu targets worked from all-clean through configure then 
> > menu.sh all failed with same error: 
> > 
> > [RANLIB] libplatform.a 
> > [GPRBUILD-C] build.gpr 
> > [GPRBUILD-B] build.gpr 
> > gprbuild: unable to find binder driver /opt/sweetada/libexec/gprbuild/gprbind 
> > make: *** [Makefile:586: kernel_compile_gpr] Error 4
> Ah, sorry, I forget the kernel.cfg problem. 
> 
> Are you sure you carry out the right steps? Here a little recap: 
> 1) 
> edit menu.sh and choose your target by uncommenting it, leave the others commented 
> 2) 
> execute in the shell "./menu.sh all-clean" 
> 3) 
> execute in the shell "./menu.sh createkernelcfg" 
> Some file gets installed, and you should find a proper configured kernel.cfg. Double check. It should replicate your target by means of two variables. 
> 4) 
> execute in the shell "./menu.sh configure" 
> You should get a list of parameters. 
> 5) 
> execute in the shell "./menu.sh all" 
> Compilation of files. 
> 
> Let me know if you note something strange.

I reinstalled 0.1e and now it works, at least to the extent that 0.1d works.
Quite strange as I had the same problem on both my computers.
The only thing that I can think of is that on the previous 01e install I just used
./menu.sh  ( without target selection)
which was the method I used for 0.1d. Perhaps this messed something up?
When that didn't work, I inspected 0.1e menu.sh and discovered the need to use target selection;
however, on using target selection, in the order stated in your advice (perhaps eventually), I had the reported problem.
It seems, somehow I messed something up; somehow on both computers!
Thanks for your much appreciated advice.

I still haven't tracked down the Catalina problem. Inspiration comes slowly.
Certainly, the Ada code is working correctly but, somehow the assembly coded outb instructions in x86_64-io don't seem to be having any effect.
Possibly being blocked by Catalina security features?
I currently don't know how to track outb functionality.
I'll keep trying (slooowly)