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

[Geoffrey Lee]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 07:16:14PM +0530, Ashish Gupta wrote:
> Done, works well!
> 
> Now continuing - how do we enter KDB now?


Ctrl-k should get you into KDB.

	-gl

> 
> - Ashish
> 
> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Geoffrey Lee <glee at ok-labs.com> 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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