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Forum Topic - QNX 7 - PRU-ICSS support (Beaglebone Black Rev C): (2 Items)
   
QNX 7 - PRU-ICSS support (Beaglebone Black Rev C)  
Hi

I installed QNX 7.0 BSP on my Beaglebone Black Rev C. However I need to use PRUs in my project. I can't find any 
information how to use it. Is PRU-ICSS supported by QNX ?
Default Debian image shipped with Beaglebone has special kernel module called 'remoteproc' which allowes basic 
operations like loading image, stop, start etc. I wonder, wheter is there similar driver in QNX 7?

Thanks in advance 
Re: QNX 7 - PRU-ICSS support (Beaglebone Black Rev C)  
As far as I'm aware there is no standardized driver available in QNX. We have ourselves evaluated this scenario some 
years back, and found that the effort is quite considerable (at that time) and the support from TI was not overwhelming 
- very little information on how theses PRUs work, what you need to do, examples and so on.

We then abandoned this approach for a completely different design.

Knowing that there is some driver available in Linux, maybe you could use that as a starting point to implement a 
resource manager that handles the basic tasks - download a firmware image, start it, and provide a mechanism to exchange
 data.

Regards,
Al