Release Notes for the QNX Neutrino 6.4.0 BSP for Freescale MPC8313E RDB 1.0.0#

System requirements#

Target system#

• QNX Neutrino RTOS 6.4.0
• Board version: Freescale mpc8313e REVC
• ROM Monitor version U-Boot 1.3.0 (Dec 22 2008 - 11:19:29) MPC83XX
• Spansion S29GL054A9QTFIR3 (8 MB) NOR Flash
• Samsung K9F5608UOD (32 MB) NAND Flash

Host development system#

• QNX Momentics 6.4.0, one of the following host systems:
  • QNX Neutrino 6.4.0
  • Microsoft Windows Vista, XP SP2 or SP3, 2000 SP4
  • Linux Red Hat Enterprise Workstation 4 or 5, Red Hat Fedora Core 6 or 7, Ubuntu 6.0.6 LTS or 7, or SUSE 10
• Terminal emulation program (Qtalk, Momentics IDE Terminal, tip, HyperTerminal, etc.)
• RS-232 serial port
• NULL-modem serial cable
• Ethernet link

Getting Started#

Step 1: Connect your hardware#

• 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.

Step 2: Build the BSP#

Step 3: Transfer the OS image to the target using the ROM monitor#

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

Step 4: Setting up the environment#

• Apply power to the target board. You should see the U-Boot ROM monitor output.
• You can use TFTP download (the default) or serial download to transfer an OS image to the board, as described below.

The MPC8313E-RDB REVC board contains eTSEC1:five 10/100/100 BaseT RJ-45 interface using Vitesse VSC7385 L2 switch and eTSEC2: one 10/100/100 BaseT RJ-45 interface using Marvell 88E1111 PHY( lower-right-most is eTSEC2, other five are eTSEC1).

Step 4A: Loading the Firmware for Vitesse VSC7385 L2 switch#

The MPC8313E-RDB board contains a Vitesse VSC7385 L2 switch connected to TSEC0 device. This switch essentially requires to load/execute a Vitesse firmware before booting any OS on the MPC8313E-RDB platform, in order to be able to use TSEC0. This firmware comes factory preloaded on MPC8313E-RDB board's NOR flash.

=> cp.b fe710000 40000 11000; go 40004
## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
VSC7385 Version = 0x273850e9
Value in IRAM matches binary, total bytes 0x2000 loaded
## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
=>
or
=> run run_vscld1
## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
VSC7385 Version = 0x273850e9
Value in IRAM matches binary, total bytes 0x2000 loaded
## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
=>

Step 4B: TFTP download#

This method requires a raw image, which the buildfile creates by default. On your target, type the following, filling in the appropriate IP addresses and ifs file:

=> setenv ethact TSEC0
=> setenv ipaddr 172.18.80.142
=> setenv serverip 172.18.80.174
=> setenv bootfile ifs-mpc8313rdb.raw
=> setenv loadaddr 0x200000
=> setenv bootcmd 'tftpboot $loadaddr $bootfile; go $loadaddr'
=> setenv bootdelay 2
=> saveenv
Saving Environment to Flash...
Un-Protected 1 sectors
Erasing Flash...
. done
Erased 1 sectors
Writing to Flash... done
Protected 1 sectors
=> 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: 1000, full duplex
Using TSEC1 device
TFTP from server 172.18.80.174; our IP address is 172.18.80.142
Filename 'ifs-mpc8313rdb.raw'.
Load address: 0x200000
Loading: #################################################################
#################################################################
#################################################################
#################################################################
##############################
done
Bytes transferred = 1483860 (16a454 hex)
## Starting application at 0x00200000 ...

Welcome to QNX Neutrino 6.4.0 on the Freescale MPC8313E RDB board

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 " Driver Command Summary" section.

Creating a flash partition#

• Enter the following command to start the flash filesystem driver:

      devf-generic -s0xFE000000,8M

• To prepare the area for the partition, enter the following command:

      flashctl -p/dev/fs0 -l1M -o5M -ve

• Format the partition:

      flashctl -p/dev/fs0p0 -l1M -o5M -vf

• Slay, and then restart the driver:

      slay devf-generic &
      devf-generic -s0xFE000000,8M &

Summary of driver commands#

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.

Ethernet:#

    io-pkt-v4 -dmpc85xx syspage

Known issues for this BSP#

• U-Boot has a known bug on this board (as documented in U-Boot/board documentation), that device TSEC0 fails to load the image in the first run, as evidenced in the following log:

        => tftpboot 200000 image
        Speed: 1000, full duplex
        Using TSEC0 device 
        TFTP from server 172.18.80.174; our IP address is 172.18.80.142
        Filename 'ifs-mpc8313rdb.raw'.
        Load address: 0x200000
        Loading: Got error 4

        Abort
        => tftpboot 200000 ifs-mpc8313rdb.raw
        Speed: 1000, full duplex
        Using TSEC0 device
        TFTP from server 172.18.80.174; our IP address is 172.18.80.142
        Filename 'ifs-mpc8313rdb.raw'.
        Load address: 0x200000
        Loading: #################################################################
        #################################################################
        #################################################################
        #################################################################
        ##############################
        done
        Bytes transferred = 1483860 (16a454 hex)
        => go 200000
                ## Starting application at 0x00200000 ...   

• Ethernet driver works fine on the MPC8313e RDB REVA3 board, but it does not work on the REVC board.