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

[G S Madhusudan]

Works like a charm ! Probably should be added as a comment in the file.
Ideally should be default but quite a few users probably want kbd_breakin.


Geoffrey Lee wrote:
> 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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>>>
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