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Release Notes for the QNX Neutrino 6.4.0 BSP for TI OMAP-L137 EVM#

1.System Requirements#

Target Requirements
  1. QNX Neutrino RTOS 6.4.0
  2. Board version: TI OMAP-L137 EVM
  3. L137 processor
  4. 64MB DDR SDRAM
  5. 4 MB SPI flash

Host Requirements

  1. QNX Momentics 6.4.0
  2. Terminal emulation program (Qtalk, Momentics IDE Terminal, tip, HyperTerminal, etc.)
  3. RS-232 serial port and serial cable, or a USB-to-serial cable
  4. Ethernet link

2.Getting Started#

2.1 Building the BSP#

You can build a BSP OS image from the source code or the binary components contained in a BSP package. For instructions about building a BSP OS image, please refer to the chapter Working with a BSP in the Building Embedded Systems manual.

2.2 Connect your Hardware#

Connect the serial cable to the serial port of the OMAP L137 EVM board to the first serial port of your host machine. There is 1 serial port on OMAP L137 EVM board. Use the one which is near the boundary of the board. Usually you should see some Uboot output on the console when you connect cable to the correct port. 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.

The correct terminal settings of the program handling serial connection should be:

baudrate 115200
data 8 bit
parity none
stop 1bit
flow control none

2.3 Setup you environment#

1. Power on your target. You should see the u-boot output on your console. 2. Conenct an ethernet cable to any of the 2 PHY port available on the back side of the board.

3. Boot the IFS image#

You can use TFTP download (the default) or serial download to transfer an OS image to the board, as described below.

3.1 Boot via tftp#

This method requires that you put the raw image generated by BSP (by default at $BSP_ROOT/images/ifs-omapl137.raw) to a TFTP server. This server must be reachable via board and preferably should be on the same LAN. As soon as u-boot starts, press any key so that u-boot stops and doesnt boot the prebuild linux kernel. Configure u-boot parameters as follows:

=> setenv ipaddr 10.90.74.214
=> setenv serverip 10.90.74.42
=> setenv bootfile ifs-omapl137.raw
=> setenv loadaddr 0xC0008000
=> setenv bootcmd 'tftpboot $loadaddr $bootfile; go $loadaddr'
=> setenv bootdelay 2
=> saveenv
Saving Environment to SPI Flash...
Erasing SPI flash...Writing to SPI flash...done
=> boot

At this point, you should see output similar to this when it finishes downloading:

## Starting application at 0xC0008000 ...
Welcome to QNX Neutrino on a TI OMAP L137 Platform
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Congratulations! QNX 6.4.0 kernel is running on your system. You can 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. Still the network and flash drivers need to be supported for the TI OMAP L137 EVM board.


Known Issues for This BSP#




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    Version From To Version Comment Created By
    Version 23 added dma library as a requirement for spi driver Vibi Sreenivasan(deleted)  -  05/31/2010
    Version 22 updated the spi driver option Krishna Reddy  -  05/20/2010
    Version 21 updated the wrong driver name for spi Vibi Sreenivasan(deleted)  -  05/18/2010
    Version 20 USB Driver Updated Ranjan Kumar Dash(deleted)  -  05/13/2010
    Version 19 updated the command line option for startup Krishna Reddy  -  05/13/2010
    Version 18 added mmcsd Vibi Sreenivasan(deleted)  -  05/12/2010
    Version 17 updated the procedure for burning the ifs image to spi flash Krishna Reddy  -  04/07/2010
    Version 16 Burning the QNX IFS to the SPI flash procedure is updated Krishna Reddy  -  04/07/2010
    Version 15 Krishna Reddy  -  04/07/2010
    Version 14 Krishna Reddy  -  04/07/2010
    Version 13 Updated the netmask and gatewayip environment variables Krishna Reddy  -  04/07/2010
    Version 12 USB support added Krishna Reddy  -  03/31/2010
    Version 11 updated the Release notes with the RTC, DMA and DSPLink Krishna Reddy  -  03/31/2010
    Version 10 Updated the devn driver name Ganesh Kumar(deleted)  -  03/26/2010
    Version 9 Network driver flood ping PR updated in Release notes Ganesh Kumar(deleted)  -  03/04/2010
    Version 8 Startup and Serial are updated in the Release notes Krishna Reddy  -  02/16/2010
    Version 7 Updating the Ethernet Driver related things. Ganesh Kumar(deleted)  -  02/16/2010
    Version 6 added command line invocation for spi0 & spi1 interface. Vibi Sreenivasan(deleted)  -  02/16/2010
    Version 5 Updating i2c driver command Ranjan Kumar Dash(deleted)  -  02/16/2010
    Version 4 updated spi driver invocation command Vibi Sreenivasan(deleted)  -  02/16/2010
    Version 3 Nilanjan Roychowdhury(deleted)  -  02/16/2010
    Version 2 Created Initial Release notes for TI OMAP L137 EVM board Krishna Reddy  -  12/09/2009
    Version 1 create Bert Gemin(deleted)  -  12/07/2009