hi dave,
the attached email chain from the bee2-users list might be relevant
to your question.
dan
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Hi, John,
Did you ever get any replies to your query from last December?
I just built a BEE2 design using 10.1 (and mlib_devel_10_1), but I can't
get it to work. No TinySH, and reads/writes to /proc/<pid>/hw/ioreg/*
just hang.
Do I have to go back to 7.1 for BEE2 development?
Thanks,
Dave
On Dec 22, 2009, at 15:27 , John Ford wrote:
Hi. Does anyone know what the status of this is? Does borph on the bee2
work under 10.1?
John
Hello,
When I've had odd behavior like this before it turned out to be a
corrupt
bof file. I would try recopying the design to the BEE2, but admittedly
it's
a bit of a long shot.
Glenn
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Oussama Sekkat <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi All,
I just compiled one of my design and ran it on Bee2.
I notice 2 things:
1. When I run the bof file, I don't get the usual Bee2 message:
****************************
* TinySH lightweight shell *
****************************
Design name : bee_erg_det_v4p3
Compiled on : 29-Nov-2009 23:46:31
DON'T PANIC ;-)
Type 'help' for help
Type '?' for a list of available commands
BEE2 %
2. when I try to read or write a register, it just hangs!
Any ideas what could have gone wrong here?
The funny thing is that I only added a couple blocks to one of my
previous
design that worked fine! Now I'm getting this strange issue.
Please let me know if you ran into a similar problem before and if you
know
how to deal with it.
Any input would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Oussama.
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Hi Mikolaj,
You are correct, there is a new version of BORPH that is based on the
2.6 kernel and is currently running on the ROACH board. It is a
complete rewrite of the code from the 2.4 kernel in the hope to have
it be more forward-compatible and have higher performance. I planned
to backport it back to the BEE2 but have never had the time to
actually doing it.
>From your original post, it seems that the problems arise from the
xilinx ethernet driver though, so it is not really a problem with the
BORPH kernel (yet). I suggest you to take a look at the ethernet
driver that comes with 10.1 and see if that should be copied to the
2.4 tree before you can compile the zImage.
--Hayden
--
Hayden Kwok-Hay So
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
The University of Hong Kong
Room 516, Chow Yei Ching Building
Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
http://www.eee.hku.hk/~hso
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Mikolaj Chwalisz
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Jean-Samuel,
> I'm now trying to compile 2.4.30-pre1 with BORPH funtionality as it is
> descriped in BEE2 wiki page. Which is not enough because they use
> Xilinx 7.1. The 2.6 kernel would be even better i think but it must
> have Borph otherwise it is useless. I have seen that there is 2.6
> Borph kernel for Roach.
>
> I would gladly look at this appnotes.
>
> I can also confirm that 10.1 is the last working version with
> Virtex-II support but this version is widely used by CASPER.
>
> Best,
>
> Mikolaj
>
> --
> Mikolaj Chwalisz
> Telecommunications Networks Group (TKN)
> TU-Berlin / Germany
> Sekr. FT5, Einsteinufer 25, 10587 BERLIN
> Mail:[email protected]
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 15:54, Jean-Samuel Chenard <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Mikolaj Chwalisz
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> We're trying to get the version 10.1 tools running with BEE2, and we
>>> have a problem with kernel compilation.
>>>
>>> We're using gcc-3.3.6-glibc-2.3.2 for cross compilation and during
>>> make zImage we get following error:
>>
>> Hi Mikolaj,
>> Some time ago, I wrote appnotes for our research consortium, the CMC
>> Microsystems in Canada.
>> In the appnotes, I cover the steps to get the Linux kernel 2.6.25, U-Boot
>> and BusyBox to run on the BEE2 machine (including some source code patches).
>> I used Xilinx 9.1.02, so that won't solve your problem with 10.1, but it
>> may be easier to get the 2.6 kernel to work with 10.1, so you could use that
>> as a starting point.
>> I am not sure if that's what you were looking for, but if it can be of any
>> help, you can contact Mr. James Millar ([email protected]) at CMC Microsystems
>> and he can help you obtain the documents and associated files.
>> I'd be happy to assist you, but would need a bit more info on the kernel
>> version you're trying to run on the BEE2.
>> 10.1 seems to be the last Xilinx software support for the BEE2 since
>> Virtex-II Pro is no longer supported in 11.1...
>> Regards,
>> Jean-Samuel
>> --
>> Ph.D. candidate
>> Integrated Microsystems Laboratory
>> McGill University, Montréal, QC, CANADA
>>
>
>
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