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From 08/25/2014 to 09/23/2014

09/17/2014

PB 02:36 PM Software Development: RE: Standard USB peripheral connection on MitySOM eval Board
Hi,
I'm now quite stuck without the ability to use use the host mode.
I have noticed on Rocketboards something recent that seems related to the issue I'm facing :
http://git.rocketboards.org/?p=linux-socfpga.git;a=commit;h=a3a81b0...
Pierre-Yves BRETECHER
AB 11:29 AM FPGA Development: RE: Load FPGA Timeout Error
Max,
Thank you for posting that.
You are correct that if VBAT is too low the module will either not boot at all and/or will not allow the FPGA to be programmed. We believe that on earlier development kits the ESD bags may have cont...
Alexander Block
MB 10:41 AM FPGA Development: RE: Load FPGA Timeout Error
Hi Dan,
I had similar problem last week. After two week I tried to run my development board loading the FPGA with JTAG and using Uboot.
JTAG was not able to connect and with Uboot the return message was:
altera_load: Failed with e...
Massimo Buratto

09/11/2014

MW 06:34 PM Software Development: RE: U-Boot with large uImage containing initramfs
Hi Nicholas,
A little confused. Your build_ramdisk_image.sh appears to be building a 1 GB image for loading an SD card, which contains including multiple partitions, etc.
You want to create a raw ext2 or ext3 image only, not a ful...
Michael Williamson

09/10/2014

NC 04:03 PM Software Development: RE: U-Boot with large uImage containing initramfs
Michael Williamson wrote:
> We've run into this issue before on a different ARM based processor.
> ...
Mike,
I still have had no luck with the initramfs, Just can't get it to go past that Starting Kernel message. I've tried several ...
Nicholas Crast

09/03/2014

JL 01:24 PM Software Development: dma_free_coherent error in Kernel driver
I am having problems DE-allocating DMA memory space. Allocation works correctly with dma_alloc_coherent. I get the following
out of dmesg:
[ 4.345091] Virt Address : c095c000 Phys Address: 4095c000 Handle: 3e8c0000
This is after...
Julio Liriano

08/29/2014

JL 12:23 PM Software Development: RE: Compiling Memory Size into U-boot
I think I see my error.
The ubootenv.bin file doesn't go into any of the three partitions generated by that automated script.
If you wish to just update the ubootenv.bin file this is the command you need:
dd if=ubootenv.bin of=/d...
Julio Liriano
JL 10:09 AM Software Development: RE: Compiling Memory Size into U-boot
From that script to combine the uBoot image with the rootFS as well as the uBoot blob, I gleaned that
to write the uBoot blob only is to do execute this command:
dd if=ubootenv.bin of=/dev/sdb2 bs-512 seek=1
However when I inser...
Julio Liriano

08/28/2014

DV 05:20 PM Software Development: RE: Compiling Memory Size into U-boot
We actually create the environment using *mkenvimage*, which takes a text file and then store this on the SD card, which uboot reads on startup. Here is the instructions on how to do that: https://support.criticallink.com/redmine/project... Daniel Vincelette
JL 04:57 PM Software Development: Compiling Memory Size into U-boot
I read this link:
https://support.criticallink.com/redmine/projects/mityarm-5cs/wiki/ARM_Software_FAQs
And I know how to manually set the memory size for my system during the uBoot process. However,
I would like to set the memory ...
Julio Liriano
NC 04:20 PM Software Development: RE: U-Boot with large uImage containing initramfs
I have attempted the following:
1.) Create .tar.gz rootfs with yocto
2.) Create ext3 ramdisk image of rootfs
3.) Create uboot image with mkimage
Now my uImage is ~3.3MB and my ramdisk is ~45MB. When I try to boot with the followi...
Nicholas Crast
NC 12:42 PM Software Development: RE: U-Boot with large uImage containing initramfs
Michael Williamson wrote:
> We've run into this issue before on a different ARM based processor.
> ...
Mike,
Thank you for the fast reply. I have tried your first suggestion. As it seems your vmlinux.lds.S file is different than min...
Nicholas Crast
MW 07:55 AM Software Development: RE: U-Boot with large uImage containing initramfs
We've run into this issue before on a different ARM based processor.
The problem is the linker for the kernel is putting the initramfs into the init section, because it is assuming that the initramfs is going to go away (that you'll p...
Michael Williamson
JL 12:37 PM Software Development: RE: Memory Aligned Byte Array
Mike,
I will definitely need more than a single 4096 byte page. I can
call __get_free_pages() to allocate a continuous chunk of pages
but is there a way of doing so so that the beginning offset is on
a 32K boundary (for example)...
Julio Liriano
MW 11:42 AM Software Development: RE: Memory Aligned Byte Array
Any kernel memory allocation is going to be page aligned (4K), it has to be. That's how the linux kernel memory management / page tables work.
You could have your driver allocate a page (do you need more? you can make continuous ph...
Michael Williamson
JL 11:19 AM Software Development: RE: Memory Aligned Byte Array
Mike,
I'm writing a device driver to handle this DMA setup. I want the kernel to give me a chunk of physical memory aligned so that the least significant T bits (I'm not so sure of the exact size I want)
are zero. The reason for the...
Julio Liriano
MW 07:09 AM Software Development: RE: Memory Aligned Byte Array
Not entirely sure what you are up to here.
Is your linux application running in user space? If it is, you may need to deal with the fact that you are working with virtual memory space that's chunked up into 4K page sizes if you are c...
Michael Williamson

08/27/2014

NC 02:11 PM Software Development: U-Boot with large uImage containing initramfs
Hi,
I am trying to boot from a uImage containing an initramfs with the mitySOM-5csx devkit. When I use the core-image-minimal-initramfs recipe, I boot up OK for the most part. The boot hangs saying "Waiting for removable media...". If...
Nicholas Crast

08/26/2014

AB 03:16 PM Software Development: Memory Aligned Byte Array
Posted on behalf of a customer:
I have a byte array in my Linux application into which I want my DMA firmware to write. I need the byte array to be memory aligned
to a certain offset. From what the compiler is telling me, the most I...
Alexander Block
 

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