Release Notes of the QNX 6.4.0 BSP for Freescale MPC8349E MDS Trunk#

System requirements#

• QNX Neutrino RTOS 6.4.0
• Board version: Freescale MPC8349E-MDS (CPU Rev1.1 or higher) with PQ-MDS-PIB and PQ-MDS-PMCPCI card adaptor
• 8 MB flash
• 256 MB DDR RAM
• ROM Monitor version U-Boot 1.1.3

Host development system

• QNX Momentics 6.4.0
• Terminal emulation program (Qtalk, Momentics IDE Terminal, tip, HyperTerminal, etc.)
• RS-232 serial port and Straight-through serial cable
• Ethernet link

System Layout#

Getting Started#

Starting Neutrino#

Step 1: Build the BSP
You can build a BSP OS image from the source code. For instructions about building a BSP OS image, please refer to the chapter Working with a BSP in the Building Embedded Systems manual.

Step 2: Connect your hardware
1.Connect the serial cable to the first serial port of the MPC8439E MDS CPU card to the first serial port of your host machine (e.g. ser1 on a Neutrino host).

Note: If you have a Neutrino host with a serial mouse, you may have to move the mouse to the second serial port on your host, because some terminal programs require the first serial port.

On your host machine, start your favorite terminal program with these settings:

• Baud: 115200
• Bits: 8
• Stop bits: 1
• Parity: none
• Flow control: none

Then, apply power to the target. You should see output similar to the following:

U-Boot 1.1.3 (FSL Development) (Apr  6 2006 - 20:19:16) MPC83XX

Clock configuration:
  Coherent System Bus:  330 MHz
  Core:                 495 MHz
  Local Bus Controller: 330 MHz
  Local Bus:             82 MHz
  DDR:                  330 MHz
  SEC:                  110 MHz
  I2C1:                 330 MHz
  I2C2:                 330 MHz
  TSEC1:                330 MHz
  TSEC2:                330 MHz
  USB MPH:              110 MHz
  USB DR:               110 MHz
CPU: MPC8349E, Rev: 11 at 495 MHz
Board: Freescale MPC8349ADS
I2C:   ready
DRAM:
   SDRAM on Local Bus: 64 MB
   DDR RAM: 256 MB
FLASH:  8 MB
In:    serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
Net:   Freescale TSEC0: PHY is Marvell 88E1111 (1410cc2)
Freescale TSEC1: PHY is Marvell 88E1111 (1410cc2)
Freescale TSEC0, Freescale TSEC1
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
=> 

Step 3: Setup the environment

On your target, type the following, filling in the appropriate IP addresses and ifs file:

=> setenv ipaddr 192.168.200.2
=> setenv serverip 192.168.200.1
=> setenv bootfile ifs-8349mds.raw
=> setenv loadaddr 0x200000
=> setenv bootcmd 'tftpboot $loadaddr $bootfile; go $loadaddr'
=> setenv bootdelay 2
=> saveenv
Saving Environment to Flash...
Un-Protected 2 sectors
Erasing Flash...
.. done
Erased 2 sectors
Writing to Flash...
256 KBdone
Protected 2 sectors

Step 4: Boot the IFS image

You can use TFTP download (the default) or serial download to transfer the image from your host to the target:

Step 4A: TFTP download

This method requires a raw image, which the buildfile creates by default.

Once the above setup is complete, you can run the load command at the => prompt to download the image:

=> boot

At this point you should see the ROM monitor download the boot image, indicated by a series of number signs. You'll also see output similar to this when it completes downloading:

Speed: 100, full duplex
Using Freescale TSEC0 device
TFTP from server 10.42.97.136; our IP address is 10.42.104.42
Filename '/root/ifs-8349mds.raw'.
Load address: 0x200000
Loading: #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         ############################################
done
Bytes transferred = 1554228 (17b734 hex)
## Starting application at 0x00200000 ...

System page at phys:0000b000 user:0000b000 kern:0000b000
Starting next program at v00244860
Welcome to QNX Neutrino trunk on the Freescale MPC8349E-QS board

Step 4B: Using the QNX IPL code download

This method requires an binary image. You have to modify the buildfile to create this format. Change this:

[virtual=ppcbe,raw]

to this:

[virtual=ppcbe,binary]

After you apply power to the board, the IPL will run and you should see the following message on your host screen:

Welcome to QNX Neutrino on the Freescale MPC8349 MDS board
Hit 'd' to download a Neutrino image with sendnto
Press any other key to boot from flash

Press d to transfer the OS image over the serial link.

Copy the OS image from your host to the target using this command:

• On a Windows host: sendnto -b115200 -dCOM1 ifs-mpc8349mds.bin

• On a QNX Neutrino host: sendnto -b115200 -d/dev/ser1 ifs-mpc8349mds.bin

• On a Linux host: sendnto -b115200 -d/dev/ttyS0 ifs-mpc8349mds.bin

You should now see the Neutrino welcome message on your terminal screen:

Welcome to QNX Neutrino 6.3 on the Freescale MPC8349 MDS board

You can now test the OS simply by executing any shell builtin command or any command residing within the OS image (e.g. ls).

Once the initial image is running, you can update the OS image using the network and flash drivers. For sample command lines, please see the "Summary of driver commands" section.

Creating a flash partition#

The mkflash script creates a 1MB flash image (in binary format) that you can download to the MPC8349 MDS board. This 1 MB image contains the following:

• configuration word
• reset code
• IPL
• OS image

Flash partitions#

To reformat the flash partition, do the following (for an 8 MB flash part):

1. Enter the following command to start the flash filesystem driver:

devf-generic -s0xfe000000,8M

2. To prepare the area for the filesystem partition, use the flashctl utility:

flashctl -p/dev/fs0 -l7M -ve

3. Format the partition:

flashctl -p/dev/fs0p0 -l7M -vf

4. Slay, then restart the driver.

These steps initialize the /dev/fs0p0 partition. The 8 MB flash partition is then as follows:

• /dev/fs0p0 (mounted as /fs0p0):

A 7 MB fully initialized filesystem space which you can copy files to. For instance: cp -v files /fs0p0/

• /dev/fs0p1:

An unformated 1 MB flash partition in which you can copy the flash image generated by the mkflash script. For instance:cp -v 1MB-flash-image /dev/fs0p1

Driver Command Summary#

The following table summarizes the commands to launch the various drivers.

Some of the drivers are commented out in the default buildfile. To use the drivers in the target hardware, you'll need to uncomment them in your buildfile, rebuild the image, and load the image into the board.

Serial:#

Network:#

without encryption:
io-pkt-v4-hc -dmpc85xx mac=xxxxxxxxxxxx,verbose -ptcpip

with encryption in software:
io-pkt-v4-hc -p tcpip-v6 ipsec -dmpc85xx mac=00112233AABB

with encryption in hardware (for MPC8572E):
io-pkt-v4-hc -dmpcsec.so -p tcpip-v6 ipsec -dmpc85xx.so mac=00112233AABB

PCI:#

The Freescale MPC8349E MDS CPU boards might come by default configured as a PCI device. This will cause the PCI server to not detect PCI devices connected to the bus. Use the following settings to configure the CPU board as a PCI host:

• SW3.4 set to 1 (OFF). The default is ON.
• SW6.7 set to 0 (ON). The default is OFF.

Leave every other switch at the factory-default positions.

Known Issues#

• In those instances where the the ROM monitor's MAC address is different from the one you pass in when running io-pkt, the host can cache the ROM monitor's address. This can result in a loss of connectivity.Workaround: If you need to specify a MAC address to io-pkt, we recommend that you use the same MAC address that the ROM monitor uses. This will ensure that if the host caches the ROM monitor's MAC address, you'll still be able to communicate with the target. Otherwise you might need to delete the target's arp entry on your host.

• The PCI driver is tested and works on MPC8349E REV 3.0 board, but doesn't work on REV 1.1 board.