[okl4-developer] Shell Access Very slow and requires multiple key strokes

[Geoffrey Lee]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 11:32:35AM +0530, G S Madhusudan wrote:
> Same problem here, tried all system tweaks on the host Linux environment 
> but to no avail.
> One option is to try emulating on VirtualBox and verify if the problem 
> is specific
> to QEMU or generic to all emulators.


We have previously received some reports of this issue on this mailing
list, there is a workaround for this.

Add

kdb_breakin = False

to the machine description in platforms/pc99/tools/machines.py and
then rebuild.


	-gl

> 
> Ashish Gupta wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have been able to build and run vanilla OKl4Linux atop Okl4. 
> > However, the busybox shell which comes up is very unresponsive and 
> > requires multiple keystrokes of the same key to respond to input.
> >
> > The command used for the build and simulation is:
> >
> > ./tools/build.py machine=ia32_pc99 project=iguana 
> > toolprefix=~/Atemp/Okl4/opt/nicta/gcc-3.3.4-glibc-2.3.3/i686-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/i686-unknown-linux-gnu- 
> > wombat=true simulate
> >
> > The modifications made to the Linux config file are as follows:
> >
> > --- 
> > Atemp/oklinux_2.6.23.21/kernel-2.6.23-v2/l4linux_config_ia32        
> > 2008-04-15 06:55:40.000000000 +0530
> > +++ 
> > Atemp/Okl4/okl4_2.1/linux/kernel-2.6.23-v2/l4linux_config_ia32      
> > 2008-06-03 09:18:50.000000000 +0530
> > @@ -486,7 +486,7 @@
> >  #
> >  # Input Device Drivers
> >  #
> > -# CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBOARD is not set
> > +CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBOARD=y
> >  # CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE is not set
> >  # CONFIG_INPUT_JOYSTICK is not set
> >  # CONFIG_INPUT_TABLET is not set
> >
> > Note that on switching to Kgdb mode all keys work fine. Unsure where 
> > to start looking for this.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ashish Gupta
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