Hi Shanly, Thanks for the reply. We have tried doing this and seem to be getting the following error:
#log info 187063 raw attempting\_to_\_program\_flash_comic_2013_Jun_21_0733.bof #log error 187069 raw bad\_magic\_in\_file\_bof\_header !progdev fail Also from within roach, on trying ./boffile: we get: cannot execute binary file (please refer to http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg04193.html). On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 6:05 PM, Shanly Rajan <[email protected]> wrote: > Sarfraz > > You need to have tcpborphserver3 which is a server designed to control > ROACH2's. tcpborphserver3 requires a kernel with memory mapped device > driver inorder to handle FPGA transactions. > > If you have successfully managed to netboot ROACH2, you should be able to > now use katcp interface to talk to the FPGA. The supported list of KATCP > commands can be viewed here: > tcpborphserver3/README<https://github.com/ska-sa/katcp_devel/blob/master/tcpborphserver3/README> > > Bof files should be programmed by connecting to the roach2 using telnet > and running progdev: > > telnet roach-ip 7147 > ?progdev boffile > > I am in the process of completing a wikipage on "getting started with > ROACH2". You can check it out as soon as its finished. > > Regards > Shanly Rajan > > > On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Sarfraz Qureshi < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Everyone, >> We are trying to move on to using memory maped kernel for our roach2, >> following the discussion on this thread: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg04167.html (since >> we are also facing the same problem when executing bof files) >> We have downloaded the source files from: >> https://github.com/shanlyrajan/mmap_driver_devel >> >> Can someone please help us with the next step? Currently, we are >> netbooting the roach2 using the NFS filesystem. >> >> Regards, >> Sarfraz Qureshi >> > > > > -- > Shanly Rajan > > SKA-SA > DBE Team > 021 506 7362 (O) > 072 783 2022 (M) >

