Hi Dave, Thanks for the info, I'm able to program the roach2 from both telnet and katcp. We did manage to waste some time on the katcp python version issue ( http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg04067.html) as well.
Does anyone know if there are there plans for a ROACH2 setup wiki page? Suraj On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 3:13 PM, David MacMahon <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, Suraj, > > On Jun 12, 2013, at 2:59 PM, Suraj Gowda wrote: > > > Does anyone know what causes the error 'cannot execute binary file' when > trying to execute a bof file from the powerpc shell? This error occurs > with all bof files, including the test designs from github > > The bof files are not executable on ROACH2. Executable bof files requires > a BORPH enabled Linux kernel. ROACH2 uses a memory mapped kernel module > for talking to the FPGA rather than BORPH. It might have been less > confusing if we gave them an extension other than ".bof" even though they > do utilize a similar file format (ELF-based) as ROACH1 bof files. > > I think you must program the FPGA via tcpborphserver3. I am not aware of > a command line "progdev" utility that runs on the ROACH2's PPC without > using tcpborphserver3 (though it could be nice to have). I think the > mailing list archive will have some discussions on how to do this using > telnet or netcat or Python or Ruby. > > Hope this helps, > Dave > >
