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wiki3923: Nto641BspFreescaleP2020rdbReleaseNotes (Version 3)

Release Notes for the QNX Neutrino 6.4.1 BSP for Freescale P2020RDB (Experimental)#

1.System Requirements#

Target Requirements
  1. QNX Neutrino RTOS 6.4.1
  2. Board version: P2020RDB
  3. P2020 processor
  4. 2GB DDR SDRAM
  5. 128 MB NOR flash

Host Requirements

  1. QNX Momentics 6.4.1
  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.System Layout#

StartEndItem
0x00100000 OS Image Loaded
0x000000000x3FFFFFFF RAM
0xC0000000 0xDFFFFFFF PCIe1 Memory
0xA0000000 0xBFFFFFFF PCIe2 Memory
0x800000000x9FFFFFFFPCIe3 Memory
0xE00000000xE7FFFFFF Promjet
0xEF000000 0xEFFFFFFF Nor Flash (on eLBC)
0xF0020000 0xF002FFFF PCIe1 IO
0xF0010000 0xF001FFFF PCIe2 IO
0xF0000000 0xF000FFFF PCIe3 IO
0xF0030000 0xF012FFFF NAND Flash Bank 1 (eLBC Chip Select 1)

3.Getting Started#

3.1 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.

3.2 Connect your Hardware#

Connect the serial cable to the first serial port of the P2020RDB board to the first serial port of your host machine. There are 2 serial ports on P2020RDB. 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

3.3 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 3 PHY port available on the back side of the board.

4. 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.

4.1 Boot via tftp#

This method requires that you put the raw image generated by BSP (by default at $BSP_ROOT/images/ifs-p2020rdb.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 10.42.175.189
=> setenv serverip 10.42.175.188
=> setenv bootfile ifs-p2020rdb.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...
flash erase done
Erased 1 sectors
Writing to Flash... done
Protected 1 sectors
=> boot

4.1 Boot via serial#

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

[virtual=ppcbe-spe,raw] to this:

[virtual=ppcbe-spe,srec] Rebuild the image. On your target, type:

=>: setenv loads_echo 0
=>: saveenv
=>: loads

On your host, copy the image to the serial port that's connected to the board. For example, on a Neutrino host: cp ifs-p2020rdb.srec /dev/ser1 On a Windows host, you can use Hyperterminal's transfer feature to copy the image as a text file.

## First Load Addr = 0x00100000
## Last  Load Addr = 0x0023955B
## Total Size      = 0x0013955C = 1283420 Bytes
## Start Addr      = 0x00101E38
=>: 

Type go start_addr

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

## Starting application at 0x00100000 ...
Welcome to QNX Neutrino 6.4.1 on the PowerPC P2020RDB board
#

Congratulations! QNX 6.4.1 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. For sample command lines, please see the " Driver Command Summary" section.

5. Writing the IFS image to flash using the boot loader#

6. Creating a flash partition#

7. Driver Command Summary#

Component Buildfile Command Required Binaries Required Libraries Source Location
USB io-usb -d ehci-p2020 ioport=0xFFE22100,irq=15 & waitfor /dev/io-usb/io-usb 10
devb-umass&
devu-ehci-p2020.so libusbdi.so
io-blk.so
io-usb
usb
devb-umass
libcam.so
fs-dos.so
fs-qnx4.so
fs-ext2.so
cam-disk.so
"prebuiltonly"
I2C i2c-p2020 -i26 -p0xffe03000 (for controller 1)
i2c-p2020 -i26 -p0xffe03100 --u1 (for controller 2)
i2c-p2020 none src/hardware/i2c/p2020
SMP PATH=:/proc/boot:/bin:/usr/bin LD_LIBRARY_PATH=:/proc/boot:/lib:/usr/lib:/lib/dll procnto-booke-smp -v procnto-booke-smp none prebuilt
PCI pci-p2020 pci-p2020 none /src/hardware/pci
Network io-pkt-v4 -d mpc85xx io-pkt-v4
ifconfig
devnp-mpc85xx.so /src/hardware/devnp
NOR Flash devf-generic -s 0xE8000000,128M,,,128k,2,1 -r devf-generic
flashctl
libmtd-flash.a /src/hardware/flash
RTC rtc –v ds3232
rtc -s -v ds3232
rtc
date
libutil.a
libutilS.a
/src/utils/r/rtc

USB#

devb-umass& (This will exit if it doesn't find any mass storage device, so start this only after plugging in a device)

Network#

To start network driver without encryption, run:

io-pkt-v4-hc -dmpc85xx

you should see following output when you run ifconfig


# ifconfig
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 33192
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
tsec0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        capabilities rx=7<IP4CSUM,TCP4CSUM,UDP4CSUM>
        capabilities tx=0
        enabled=0
        address: 00:04:9f:00:d8:fe
        media: Ethernet none
tsec1: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        capabilities rx=7<IP4CSUM,TCP4CSUM,UDP4CSUM>
        capabilities tx=0
        enabled=0
        address: 00:04:9f:00:d8:ff
        media: Ethernet none
tsec2: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        capabilities rx=7<IP4CSUM,TCP4CSUM,UDP4CSUM>
        capabilities tx=0
        enabled=0
        address: 00:11:8c:84:00:11
        media: Ethernet none

To bring a network interface up, type following command

ifconfig tsec2 10.42.175.186/24 up

Here 10.42.175.186 is the IP address assign to your target and 24 is the netmask bits (i.e. 255.255.255.0) The LEDs of the RJ45 ports corresponding to an enabled interface shall glow periodically. This can be used to identify the correct port corresponding to each tsec.

On the P2020RDB, eTSEC2 is connected to the Vitesse SGMII PHY (VSC8641). This interface is not yet tested. This is tsec2 in the ifconfig output.

PCI#

PCI is not yet tested on the P2020RDB

pci -v

This shall output all PCI devices currently detected on your system.

RTC#

RTC is not yet supported on the P2020RDB

NOR Flash#

NOR is not yet supported on the P2020RDB

8. Known Issues#

  1. eTSEC2 is not supported
  2. PCI is not supported (untested)
  3. errors while loading the BSP into the IDE. Workaround:
    • In IDE BSP perspective, open the System Builder Projects view, right click on the system builder project "bsp-freescale-p2020-ds", select "Properties", select "Search Paths" from the left panel, select "System Files" tab at the right panel, change the first path which has "install/PLATFORM/boot/sys" in it, change the PLATFORM variable to "ppcbe". Rebuild the system builder project.