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>The Console Device</TITLE
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NAME="SYNTH-CONSOLE">The Console Device</H1
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>Name</H2
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>The console device &nbsp;--&nbsp;Show output from the eCos application</DIV
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>Description</H2
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>The eCos application can generate text output in a variety of ways,
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including calling <TT
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>printf</TT
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> or
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<TT
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>diag_printf</TT
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>. When the I/O auxiliary is enabled
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the eCos startup code will instantiate a console device to process all
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such output. If operating in text mode the output will simply go to
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standard output, or to a logfile if the <TT
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>-l</TT
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> command
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line option is specified. If operating in graphical mode the output
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will go to the central text window, and optionally to a logfile as
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well. In addition it is possible to control the appearance of the main
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text via the target definition file, and to install extra filters for
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certain types of text.
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>It should be noted that the console device is line-oriented, not
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character-oriented. This means that outputting partial lines is not
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supported, and some functions such as <TT
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>fflush</TT
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>setvbuf</TT
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> will not operate as expected. This
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limitation prevents much possible confusion when using filters to
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control the appearance of the text window, and has some performance
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benefits - especially when the eCos application generates a great deal
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of output such as when tracing is enabled. For most applications this
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is not a problem, but it is something that developers should be aware
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of.
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>The console device is output-only, it does not provide any support for
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keyboard input. If the application requires keyboard input then that
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should be handled by a separate eCos device package and matching
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host-side code.
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>Installation</H2
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>The eCos side of the console device is implemented by the
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architectural HAL itself, in the source file
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>synth_diag.c</TT
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>, rather than in a separate device
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package. Similarly the host-side implementation,
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<TT
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>console.tcl</TT
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host-side support. It gets installed automatically alongside the I/O
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auxiliary itself, so no separate installation procedure is required.
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>Target Definition File</H2
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>The <A
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can contain a number of entries related to the console device. These
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are all optional, they only control the appearance of text output. If
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such control is desired then the relevant options should appear in the
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body of a <B
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>synth_device</B
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> entry:
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>synth_device console {
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>The first option is <B
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>appearance</B
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appearance of any text generated by the eCos application that does not
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match one of the installed filters. This option takes the same
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>synth_device console {
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    appearance -foreground white -background black
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>Any number of additional filters can be created with a
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>synth_device console {
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    filter trace {^TRACE:.*} -foreground HotPink1 -hide 1
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>The first argument gives the new filter a name which will be used in
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should be unique. The second argument is a Tcl regular expression. The
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console support will match each line of eCos output against this
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regular expression, and if a match is found then the filter will be
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used for this line of text. The above example matches any line of
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output that begins with <TT
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>TRACE:</TT
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>, which corresponds
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to the eCos infrastructure's tracing facilities. The remaining options
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control the desired appearance for matched text. If some eCos output
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matches the regular expressions for several different filters then
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only the first match will be used.
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>There are no target-side configuration options related to the console
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>The console device does not use any command-line arguments.
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>The console device does not provide any hooks.
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