Hi all,

I am having some problems getting the task scheduling to work, I create a simple task to enable some LED's and then loop forever, this is added to the task list and the scheduler is started. Stepping through the vTaskStartScheduler function, everything seems to be fine, then getting to the vPortStartFirstTask function, I cannot step through and the first task never seems to run. Has anyone else encountered this problem? Or have any idea's what might cause this?

Thanks for any help

Have you installed the interrupt service routines needed by FreeRTOS? The scheduler is started with an SVC call, and you need systick and pendsv too. If you project is using cmsis naming then you can do this by adding the following lines to FreeRTOSConfig.h


#define xPortPendSVHandler PendSV_Handler
#define xPortSysTickHandler SysTick_Handler
#define vPortSVCHandler SVC_Handler

Thanks for the quick reply.

I am using an existing demo (stm32f107, for a new board), I think I have installed the interrupt service routines, those 3 functions are all in the port.c file. Is there a way to check if they have been installed? When porting to a new board, does the NVIC code need to be updated?

Debugging the code, the first task is not run because the NMI interrupt occurs, I'm not sure if it is a true NMI exception, as seems to just use the first interrupt handler it see's in the vector table. Having trouble figuring out why this occurs though, if anyone has any ideas?

In case anyone else stumbles upon the same problem, I fixed it by replacing

#ifdef STARTUP_FROM_RESET
.word reset_handler
#else
.word reset_wait
#endif /* STARTUP_FROM_RESET */

with

.word reset_handler

You shouldn't change the code - it is like that for a reason. You are meant to have STARTUP_FROM_RESET defined in your project options for your release build, but not your debug build.

http://rowley.zendesk.com/entries/50337-application-not-starting-up-from-reset

Regards.