Release Notes for the QNX Neutrino 6.4.0 BSP for Freescale MPC8536 DS (Development System a.k.a Calamari) 1.0.0#

System requirements#

Target system#

• QNX Neutrino RTOS 6.4.0
• Board version: Freescale mpc8536 ds (Development System a.k.a Calamari)
• U-Boot 1.3.3-rc3-00334-gf214729-dirty (Jun 2 2008 - 14:07:04)
• Spansion S29GL01GP (128 MB) NOR Flash
• Samsung K9NBG08U5A (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.

Step 4A: 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 eTSEC1
=> setenv ipaddr 172.18.80.231
=> setenv serverip 172.18.80.174
=> setenv bootfile ifs-mpc8536ds.raw
=> setenv loadaddr 0x100000
=> 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... 9....8....7....6....5....4....3....2....1....done
Protected 1 sectors
=> boot

eTSEC1: No link.
Speed: 100, full duplex
Using eTSEC3 device
TFTP from server 172.18.80.174; our IP address is 172.18.80.231
Filename 'ifs-mpc8536ds.raw'.
Load address: 0x100000
Loading: #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #########################################################
done
Bytes transferred = 4652048 (46fc10 hex)
## Starting application at 0x00100000 ...

Welcome to QNX Neutrino 6.4.0 on the Freescale MPC8536DS 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 -s 0xE8000000,128M,,,128k,2,1 -r

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

      flashctl -p/dev/fs0 -l2M -o16M -ve

• Format the partition:

      flashctl -p/dev/fs0p0 -l2M -o16M -vf

• Slay, and then restart the driver:

      slay devf-generic &
      devf-generic -s 0xE8000000,128M,,,128k,2,1 -r &

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.

Startup:#

Ethernet:#

Known issues for this BSP#

• MPC8536 PCI driver only handles one PCI bus at a time.