dev: prevent RTC events firing before startup

This change includes edits to MC146818 timer to prevent RTC events
firing before startup to comply with SimObject initialization call sequence.

Committed by: Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

2 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/dev/mips/malta_io.cc b/src/dev/mips/malta_io.cc
index d769b1112..6797a054c 100755
--- a/src/dev/mips/malta_io.cc
+++ b/src/dev/mips/malta_io.cc
@@ -142,6 +142,12 @@ MaltaIO::unserialize(Checkpoint *cp, const string &section)
     rtc.unserialize("rtc", cp, section);
 }
 
+void
+MaltaIO::startup()
+{
+    rtc.startup();
+}
+
 MaltaIO *
 MaltaIOParams::create()
 {
diff --git a/src/dev/mips/malta_io.hh b/src/dev/mips/malta_io.hh
index f74d42da4..dd035aea2 100755
--- a/src/dev/mips/malta_io.hh
+++ b/src/dev/mips/malta_io.hh
@@ -143,6 +143,11 @@ class MaltaIO : public BasicPioDevice
      */
     virtual void unserialize(Checkpoint *cp, const std::string &section);
 
+    /**
+     * Start running.
+     */
+    virtual void startup();
+
 };
 
 #endif // __DEV_MALTA_IO_HH__