At 8:50 -0700 18-05-2004, Steve Kaiser wrote:
>Before I plow into it, I ask for your advice. What is the best way to turn
>on/off the status LEDs on the Motorola Lite5200 ("IceCube") board?
>
>Although experienced with embedded micros & DSPs in general, I am a newbie to
>Linux and the MPC5200.
>Thanks to Wolfgang for the most excellent U-Boot and ELDK. With these tools,
>I have compiled a 2.4.25 kernel and have it running from either RAM or Flash
>in my 5200 IceCube. I can insmod a simple "hello world" module on my target.
>That's where I'm at. I figure the next exciting step is to turn LEDs on &
>off. Right? What's the best/correct way in the Linux tradition? Any tips
>are welcome.
Do you have working userspace (ie, do you have a ramdisk or the like
loaded, and do you get a prompt where you can execute commands) ? If
so, you can set and read memory locations using a cross-compiled
version of devmem2:
http://www.lart.tudelft.nl/lartware/port/devmem2.c
Just find out the (physical) address of the latch driving the LEDs,
and you can toggle them from the command line.
Regards,
JDB.
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