C++ ctors, cdtest.exe, printf and termios oh my!

[tonya at ece.ubc.ca (Tony R. Ambardar)]

This is what I originally suspected. However, I believe Rosimildo and Erik
have both successfully run cdtest.exe using interrupt-driven console I/O.
Hence my confusion...

Is this true, Erik, Rosimildo?

I haven't looked closely before, so how does one turn on polling for
general I/O in the x86 BSP's?

Joel, why don't we just change the printf's in cdtest.exe to printk's and
not worry about this any more?

Another place where polling I/O is required is for the various timing
tests.  Would using printk in these cases be alright?

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On Thu, 5 Aug 1999 joel at OARcorp.com wrote:

> 
> You almost answered the question yourself. :)
> 
> Your console device driver is interrupt driven.  The constructurs are
> being run long before interrupts are enabled at the system level -- even
> before tasking is initiated.  If you run the test with polled console
> output, it will avoid this problem.  
> 
> As has been noted before, most of the RTEMS tests behave best when using
> polled console IO.
> 
> Try it again with polled IO
> 
> --joel