[Barrelfish-users] Need help in running barrelfish on SCC

Simon Peter speter at inf.ethz.ch
Sat Nov 19 10:38:06 CET 2011


> I could find the scripts bootscc.sh and menu.lst.scc and made changes
> for booting core 1-5 but there is another
> problem I am facing. The bootscc.sh calls another script watchall.sh
> which is being blocked due to access permissions.
> Could you please let me know if watchall.sh is necessary for the
> installation ? Also I could see the first command in watchall.sh as
> "trap "pkill -P $$" SIGINT" whcih mught be getting blocked. Could you
> please tell what is it supposed to do ?
> I am just wondering if it can be made to execute without requiring root
> privileges.

watchall.sh forwards serial output from Barrelfish to your console. It 
is not required to boot the SCC and only provides a convenient way for 
output from Barrelfish, so you can leave it out.

In order to make it work without root privileges, you probably have to 
give proper privileges to the SCC UART device files in /dev that 
watchall.sh is trying to access.

Simon



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