From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <49E0F887.40805@domain.hid> Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:07:35 +0200 From: Gilles Chanteperdrix MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <6C68EA7C-72E4-482D-917A-24C7C6DA31C9@domain.hid> <49E08F6F.8000604@domain.hid> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Xenomai-help] Running xeno-test List-Id: Help regarding installation and common use of Xenomai List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Martin Shepherd Cc: xenomai@xenomai.org Martin Shepherd wrote: > On Sat, 11 Apr 2009, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: >> ... >> So, in the mean time, you should not load the drivers and let xeno-test >> load them once at a time when needed. > > Thanks. This did indeed resolve the problem, and allowed all of the > latency tests to run. Unfortunately the subsequent switchtest step > appears to have completely hung the PC, but that could be a memory > error, since I'm temporarily experimenting with Xenomai on an > 8-year-old PC, and memtest86 occasionally flags a couple of marginal > bytes of RAM on this PC. I'll receive a new computer in a couple of > weeks. We have just discovered that FPU handling on x86 had a few bugs, one of them involving CPUs without fxsr (check /proc/cpuinfo). You can try and apply commit 3a23967f3cc8d6881d8e3280130bbc431195aa31 from the for-head branch of the git://git.xenomai.org/xenomai-gch repository. This is fairly recent stuff, this is why it is not in any release. -- Gilles.