> On Nov 15, 2016, at 8:06 AM, Greg <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> Just my advice, especially for a newbie PRU person (maybe even an experienced 
> one too), don't touch the Device Tree!  At least not directly:
> 
> https://github.com/cdsteinkuehler/beaglebone-universal-io
> 
> (Note the path to slots is not the same for 4x kernels)
> 
> I've been using the Debian 8.6 IOT image and the "Universal IO" is already 
> installed, ready to work its magic.
> Follow the directions at the above repository.  This will save you much time 
> fiddling with the Device Tree stuff, highly recommended!
> The config-pin utility is AWESOME, try it!
> 
> One thing config-pin can't do.  And that is change the pull-up/pull-down 
> settings on the pads.  In that case you may have to tweak a device tree.
> But this is relatively simple and won't waste piles of your time debugging.
> 
> Another something to be aware of which can burn time like no tomorrow:  
> Header P8.  There are pins on this header which determine how
> the boot process proceeds.  Not all of them, but some of the overlap possible 
> PRU IO.  I would avoid these if you can!  Use config-pin and
> set your PRU IO to pins on header P9 as required.  Some pins on P8 are safe, 
> but proceed with caution.
> Even light resistive loading on these pins will corrupt the boot process!
> 
> You can go to the Beaglebone Black system reference manual to see this:
> 
> http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack#Hardware_Files
> 
> Check out page 68, diagram Figure 38.  Note the "LCD_DATA" pins.
> Then go to page 84, and you can see which pins on P8 to avoid.
> There are probably enough PRU IO possible to route to P9 for many projects.
> 
> I think prussdrv is a UIO related kernel module, not Remoteproc related.  I 
> don't recall seeing that one.
> Activation of Remoteproc may not have happened.  Use lsmod and look for 
> pru_rproc, pruss, and pruss_intc.
> 
> With regards to manually running Remoteproc, you can
> 
> modprobe pru_rproc
> 
> to insert and start Remoteproc and
> 
> rmmod pru_rproc
> 
> to remove it (using root privilege).
> 
> To stop and start firmwares already loaded into the PRUs:
> 
> echo "4a334000.pru0" > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/pru-rproc/bind
> echo "4a338000.pru1" > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/pru-rproc/bind
> 
> echo "4a334000.pru0" > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/pru-rproc/unbind
> echo "4a338000.pru1"  > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/pru-rproc/unbind
> 
> So this is the Debian image I am using successfully:
> 
> bone-debian-8.6-iot-armhf-2016-10-30-4gb.img

Shouldn't be any deltas, but can you use 2016-11-06 from 
https://beagleboard.org/latest-images because we are standardizing on that 
image for a while and pushing manufacturers to shift to it in production. 

> 
> Get that here:
> 
> http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian
> 
> Once again, using the above image, don't touch device tree files (except one 
> very trivial change to activate Remoteproc) and use config-pin to change pin 
> modes to PRU.  All ready to go on this image.
> Get Remoteproc activated and see if you can get the Remoteproc related kernel 
> modules to appear in lsmod.
> 
> I've attempted to very carefully describe the process in the PDF file here 
> and did a bunch of updates last weekend:
> https://github.com/Greg-R/pruadc1/tree/master/doc/PRUADC1latex
> 
> Regards,
> Greg
> 
>> On Monday, November 14, 2016 at 10:17:40 PM UTC-5, Zach B wrote:
>> Hey everyone so I took one step forward and one step back. With the last bit 
>> of help from Robert I was able to properly disable the universal overlay and 
>> load my own. It appears that my device overlay loads correctly. When I went 
>> to test things today however I can't seem to get the remote_proc to turn on 
>> by following the elinux example like last time. I follow all of the steps. I 
>> get no errors, but nothing happens. I haven't looked through the boot dmesg 
>> yet so it could be in there. Is there another way to manually turn on the 
>> remote_proc?
>> 
>> On a different note after reading some of your comments I am a bit confused. 
>> Is the device tree overlay the proper way to go about setting the header 
>> pins to the PRU or not? Also is there a command line method to working with 
>> the PRUs that would let me test the pins to ensure they are working?
>> 
>> I tried compiling a simple c script to run the PRU but I keep getting the 
>> error pruss/prussdrv.h: no such file or directory. Are the pruss files 
>> something that needs to be included on my LIBRARY path or LD_LIBRARY path or 
>> is it an extra package I need to download?
>> 
>>> 
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