Hi Charles,
 
Thanks a lot for your quick reply and reflected suggestions.
I will check them out point-by-point and check out if I find any flaws in 
my configurations.
 
Best regards
Terje Froysa

On Tuesday, November 11, 2014 3:59:51 PM UTC+1, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:

> On 11/11/2014 8:42 AM, Terje Froysa wrote: 
> > 
> > 
> > Dear forum, 
> > 
> > I have struggled for 4 days and I am out of ideas/suggestions on how to 
> > make this xeno_16550A driver work. 
> > 1. I have successfully installed the Xenomai 2.6.4 and the Debian 
> 3.8.13. 
> > 2. Self-developed RTDM driver is working satisfactory. 
> > 3. But when irq numbers are defined for the kernel installed xeno_16550A 
> > driver the boot process crashes (attached log). 
> > 
> > 
> > Questions from Xenomai forum is: 
> > 
> > 
> >    1. The xeno_16550A driver uses byte access, have you checked the 
> AM33xx 
> >    TRM to check that this is valid? 
> >    2. Is the interface clock for the serial device you want to use 
> enabled? 
> >     
> > From the TRM it seems that the 16550 compliant UART accommodates byte 
> > accesses. 
> > 
> > When installing and removing serial port drivers I can't see any 
> associated 
> > clock enabling options in the menuconfig. 
>
> I haven't tried getting the UARTs working with Xenomai, but have some 
> general suggestions if you haven't tried them already, mostly focused on 
> making sure the UART is actually enabled in the device-tree: 
>
> * Do you have the UART enabled in the default device-tree being loaded 
> by U-Boot?  This should setup the clocks and other house-keeping 
> required to make the UART actually work at the hardware level. 
>
> * Can you build the Xenomai driver as a loadable module and try to load 
> it after the system boots?  If so, this will make it much easier to test 
> variations on the running system. 
>
> * Have you tried booting without the Xenomai serial module enabled and 
> talking directly to the memory region used by the UART (via mmap() of 
> /dev/mem or similar)?  This could help you get your device tree properly 
> setup so you know the UART is enabled before trying to boot the kernel 
> with the serial driver enabled. 
>
> * If it's a device-tree problem, you can boot with a working kernel and 
> crawl through the live device-tree (via /proc/device-tree/ocp/serial*/) 
> and make sure everything is as you expect. 
>
> -- 
> Charles Steinkuehler 
> [email protected] <javascript:> 
>

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