Hello,

Have there been any recent changes that could affect behavior of vPortStartFirstTask? Specifically any of the ARM R4F ports?

Thanks, John W.

Not that I am aware of.

Hello Richard,

I am having to do this in my portASM.s:

vPortStartFirstTask: portRESTORECONTEXTFIRSTTASK ; will run in debugger ;; portRESTORECONTEXT ; this won't

And the difference is:

;;;                LDR LR, [LR, #+60]      ;; this will run standalone
                        LDR LR, [SP, #-0x04]          ;; this runs in the debugger

Thanks, John W.

Hello FreeRTOSer's,

A slight mod in port.c fixed this; I want to test this for a while before publishing the fix.

Regards, John W.

Hello,

For the port I am running under IAR for the TI Hercules processor - I have made the following change in ./portable/ARM_Cortex-R4/port.c:

in StackTypet *pxPortInitialiseStack( StackTypet *pxTopOfStack, TaskFunction_t pxCode, void *pvParameters )

In order to get the first task to start properly:

pxTopOfStack = ( StackType_t ) 0x00000000; / R14 */

has been changed to:

pxTopOfStack = ( StackType_t ) pxOriginalTOS - 64; / R14 */

Here is my comment I have in my code: // *** this is a fix for the first task to start - otherwise it // *** is taking the contents of 0 (zero), adding 60 and taking // *** that as the address before subtracting 4 and loading // *** that to the PC; which is wrong. It doesn't hurt to do // *** this fix-up since R14 is the LR for this architecture. // *** --- jcw

Appears to be an innocuous fix to get the first task started.

Regards, John W.

Hi John,

What release of FreeRTOS are you using?

What version of port.c are you writing about?

Is it this file ?

~~~~ FreeRTOSV9.0.0rc2FreeRTOSSourceportableIARARMCM4Fport.c ~~~~

PS. The easiest way to include literal code is to surround it with two lines that only contains 4 tildas (~~~~)

~~~~ /* Asterix may be used within a code block / pxTopOfStack = ( StackType_t ) 0x00000000; / R14 */ ~~~~

A single word within a phrase can be put between /* backquotes */.

And I guess that the backslash * also works to show special characters.

regards.

Hello Hein,

I am using the tip of the FreeRTOS SVN tree.

The port I am using isn't part of the official release. I took what was what you have pointed out (and is the same file I illustrated in my post) and have modified it. But that port.c is pretty much the same.

Regards, John W.