Bad magic in file bof header ? That looks like a corrupt bof file ... Is it really a bof file and not a bin or bit file ?
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Sarfraz Qureshi <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> 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) > >

