Hi, >> Whats about the other packages that uses the interrupts? (I currently >> use the minimal config to search the bug.) Where and when do they disable >> the global interrupt-disable flag? > > This normally happens when you start running threads (call > the scheduler). > > What sort of program are you trying to run (and use interrupts)?
OK - the whole story. I build redboot and noticed that the STRG-C break of the GDB stub was not working. Somewhat annoying but not a problem I have to solve now - I thougt. But after I tried to load and run an application into the RAM I got an assert concerning a DSR call with a function pointer pointing to null. (The same progam runs in ROM mode without problems.) I've guessed that there is something messed up with the virtual vectors and/or the interrupt handling. This is the reason why I search for the missing STRG-C break support since this bug might generate all these side effects. (And I do not search one bug if I know that there is another one that might interact each other.) To simplify the bug-search I build a minimal configuration of the HAL, added the GDB-stub support and wrote just a diag_printf("Hello World\n"); while(1); into cyg_user_start(). If I understand you correct the HAL will not enable the interrupts at all. This would mean that the gdb-break support does not work with any target in HAL-only configurations. (And whats about RedBoot? As far as I know it uses only the HAL, not the kernel sheduling.) Thank you, Martin L.