Re: [Emc-users] 7i90HD programming

[W. Martinjak]

On 2016-11-02 19:49, Peter C. Wallace wrote:
> No, normally the as delivered 7I90HDs are EPP/EPP, but they can be 
> propgrammed 
> with any firmware on request

Yes, Ok!

> Note: I have not tried the RS-422 programming for a while, I will test when I 
> get a chance

OK, thanks!

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Re: [Emc-users] 7i90HD programming

[Peter C. Wallace]

On Wed, 2 Nov 2016, W. Martinjak wrote:

> Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 18:23:54 +0100
> From: W. Martinjak <mats...@play-pla.net>
> Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)"
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> Subject: Re: [Emc-users] 7i90HD programming
> 
> On 2016-11-02 17:59, Peter C. Wallace wrote:
>> and RS-422
>> require special hardware)
>
> Hooking into this point.
> Do you have a good instruction for flashing with rs422?
> Is rs422 working at delivery state of the 7i90?
>
> Thanks
>
> Matsche

No, normally the as delivered 7I90HDs are EPP/EPP, but they can be propgrammed 
with any firmware on request

Note: I have not tried the RS-422 programming for a while, I will test when I 
get a chance

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Re: [Emc-users] 7i90HD programming

[W. Martinjak]

On 2016-11-02 17:59, Peter C. Wallace wrote:
> and RS-422 
> require special hardware)

Hooking into this point.
Do you have a good instruction for flashing with rs422?
Is rs422 working at delivery state of the 7i90?

Thanks

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Re: [Emc-users] 7i90HD programming

[Peter C. Wallace]

On Wed, 2 Nov 2016, Chris Albertson wrote:

> Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 09:12:46 -0700
> From: Chris Albertson <albertson.ch...@gmail.com>
> Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)"
> <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
> To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Subject: Re: [Emc-users] 7i90HD programming
> 
> OK so some new computers have obsolete ports that are not supported by the
> software that comes with them.
>
> Question, can the 7i90 be flashed using some other method like JTAG.   Of
> course it can,  but does Mesa make it reasonably easy?


Sure you can flash the card via JTAG with Xilinx tools, but is really doing
things the hard way (Xilinx tools for writing PROM files are quite terrible
especially if you want to support relocatable bifiles as mesaflash does)

Mesaflash is the preferred way,but this requires a working host interface. Of 
the avalable host interfaces in the 7I90 (EPP, RS-422 Serial, SPI), EPP is the 
one most likely to be available to a user (Currently most if not all OS level 
SPI drivers are so riddled with bugs as to be useless, while JTAG and RS-422 
require special hardware)

This is why default 7I90 programming is EPP



>
> On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 5:42 AM, Todd Zuercher <zuerc...@embarqmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Rumors of the parallel ports demise are greatly exaggerated.  People have
>> been saying it is dead for nearly 20 years, yet you can still buy new PCs
>> and equipment that have one without much difficulty.  The new Linovo PC on
>> my office desk that was bought for doing Windows/cad work (no consideration
>> for needing a pp when shopping for it) still has a parallel port header on
>> the motherboard, even though the 64-bit Windows OS that came on it doesn't
>> support it.
>>
>> - Original Message -
>> From: "Chris Albertson" <albertson.ch...@gmail.com>
>> To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 1, 2016 9:01:40 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Emc-users] 7i90HD programming
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 4:36 AM, W. Martinjak <mats...@play-pla.net> wrote:
>>
>>> As I have written:
>>>
>>>The bit files are in:
>>>
>>> 7i90/configs/hostmot2/
>>>
>>> You need one of the 7i90_spi*.bit  files.
>>> Then you have to flash the card on your printer port with
>>>
>>
>> I've been following this because I think I want to go this rout in a couple
>> months..
>>
>> So there is no why out of needed an old printer port interface?   That
>> means finding an old PC. It there no why to flash the card using (say)
>> JTAG?   The printer port is long obsolete.
>>
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Re: [Emc-users] 7i90HD programming

[Todd Zuercher]

According to the manual pg. 19 (RTFM) 
http://mesanet.com/pdf/parallel/7i90hdman.pdf

"Linux and Windows utility programs mesaflash and mesaflash.exe are provided to
write configuration files to the 7I90HD EEPROM via the RS-422 interface and 
LBP16. The
linux utility can also write configuration files via the EPP interface."


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To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 2, 2016 12:12:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Emc-users] 7i90HD programming

OK so some new computers have obsolete ports that are not supported by the
software that comes with them.

Question, can the 7i90 be flashed using some other method like JTAG.   Of
course it can,  but does Mesa make it reasonably easy?

On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 5:42 AM, Todd Zuercher <zuerc...@embarqmail.com>
wrote:

> Rumors of the parallel ports demise are greatly exaggerated.  People have
> been saying it is dead for nearly 20 years, yet you can still buy new PCs
> and equipment that have one without much difficulty.  The new Linovo PC on
> my office desk that was bought for doing Windows/cad work (no consideration
> for needing a pp when shopping for it) still has a parallel port header on
> the motherboard, even though the 64-bit Windows OS that came on it doesn't
> support it.
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Chris Albertson" <albertson.ch...@gmail.com>
> To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 1, 2016 9:01:40 PM
> Subject: Re: [Emc-users] 7i90HD programming
>
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 4:36 AM, W. Martinjak <mats...@play-pla.net> wrote:
>
> > As I have written:
> >
> >The bit files are in:
> >
> > 7i90/configs/hostmot2/
> >
> > You need one of the 7i90_spi*.bit  files.
> > Then you have to flash the card on your printer port with
> >
>
> I've been following this because I think I want to go this rout in a couple
> months..
>
> So there is no why out of needed an old printer port interface?   That
> means finding an old PC. It there no why to flash the card using (say)
> JTAG?   The printer port is long obsolete.
>
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Re: [Emc-users] 7i90HD programming

[Kirk Wallace]

On 11/02/2016 09:12 AM, Chris Albertson wrote:
> OK so some new computers have obsolete ports that are not supported by the
> software that comes with them.

PCIe parallel port cards are commonly available and inexpensive. 
Contrary to the PCI cards, it seems the NetMOS based cards are the ones 
that work with EPP connected FPGA signal generators. For me at least, 
Core 2 Duo PCs with excellent latency and parallel ports are plentiful 
and cheaper overall than any decent embedded platform that will need a 
lot of fiddling to never really work quite right.

>
> Question, can the 7i90 be flashed using some other method like JTAG.   Of
> course it can,  but does Mesa make it reasonably easy?

Mesa made the firmware open source, so have at it.

That's just the way it looks for here.


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Re: [Emc-users] 7i90HD programming

[Jon Elson]

On 11/02/2016 11:12 AM, Chris Albertson wrote:
> So there is no why out of needed an old printer port interface?   That
> means finding an old PC. It there no why to flash the card using (say)
> JTAG?   The printer port is long obsolete.
>
>
No, you can get PCI and PCIe parallel port cards at just 
about any computer outfit (Micro Center, or eBay).
Any desktop PC should be able to accommodate one of these cards.

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Re: [Emc-users] 7i90HD programming

[Chris Albertson]

OK so some new computers have obsolete ports that are not supported by the
software that comes with them.

Question, can the 7i90 be flashed using some other method like JTAG.   Of
course it can,  but does Mesa make it reasonably easy?

On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 5:42 AM, Todd Zuercher <zuerc...@embarqmail.com>
wrote:

> Rumors of the parallel ports demise are greatly exaggerated.  People have
> been saying it is dead for nearly 20 years, yet you can still buy new PCs
> and equipment that have one without much difficulty.  The new Linovo PC on
> my office desk that was bought for doing Windows/cad work (no consideration
> for needing a pp when shopping for it) still has a parallel port header on
> the motherboard, even though the 64-bit Windows OS that came on it doesn't
> support it.
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Chris Albertson" <albertson.ch...@gmail.com>
> To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 1, 2016 9:01:40 PM
> Subject: Re: [Emc-users] 7i90HD programming
>
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 4:36 AM, W. Martinjak <mats...@play-pla.net> wrote:
>
> > As I have written:
> >
> >The bit files are in:
> >
> > 7i90/configs/hostmot2/
> >
> > You need one of the 7i90_spi*.bit  files.
> > Then you have to flash the card on your printer port with
> >
>
> I've been following this because I think I want to go this rout in a couple
> months..
>
> So there is no why out of needed an old printer port interface?   That
> means finding an old PC. It there no why to flash the card using (say)
> JTAG?   The printer port is long obsolete.
>
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Re: [Emc-users] 7i90HD programming

[Todd Zuercher]

Rumors of the parallel ports demise are greatly exaggerated.  People have been 
saying it is dead for nearly 20 years, yet you can still buy new PCs and 
equipment that have one without much difficulty.  The new Linovo PC on my 
office desk that was bought for doing Windows/cad work (no consideration for 
needing a pp when shopping for it) still has a parallel port header on the 
motherboard, even though the 64-bit Windows OS that came on it doesn't support 
it.

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Sent: Tuesday, November 1, 2016 9:01:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Emc-users] 7i90HD programming

On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 4:36 AM, W. Martinjak <mats...@play-pla.net> wrote:

> As I have written:
>
>The bit files are in:
>
> 7i90/configs/hostmot2/
>
> You need one of the 7i90_spi*.bit  files.
> Then you have to flash the card on your printer port with
>

I've been following this because I think I want to go this rout in a couple
months..

So there is no why out of needed an old printer port interface?   That
means finding an old PC. It there no why to flash the card using (say)
JTAG?   The printer port is long obsolete.

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Re: [Emc-users] 7i90HD programming

[Chris Albertson]

On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 4:36 AM, W. Martinjak  wrote:

> As I have written:
>
>The bit files are in:
>
> 7i90/configs/hostmot2/
>
> You need one of the 7i90_spi*.bit  files.
> Then you have to flash the card on your printer port with
>

I've been following this because I think I want to go this rout in a couple
months..

So there is no why out of needed an old printer port interface?   That
means finding an old PC. It there no why to flash the card using (say)
JTAG?   The printer port is long obsolete.

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Re: [Emc-users] 7i90HD programming

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 01 November 2016 10:38:04 Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Tuesday 01 November 2016 07:36:35 W. Martinjak wrote:
> > As I have written:
> >
> >The bit files are in:
> >
> > 7i90/configs/hostmot2/
> >
> > You need one of the 7i90_spi*.bit  files.
>
> And from the descriptions it looks like any of them will do as I can
> restrict the loadrt line to what I want, and the remainder is then
> gpio. Its an elderly lathe, should there be a default I should try to
> write once I've assembled the cable?
> restricting the listing to spi shows:
>
> gene@coyote:/lib/firmware/hm2/7i90$ ls 7i90_spi*.bit
> 7i90_spi_24xqctronly.bit   7i90_spi_sssvst8_8_8.bit
> 7i90_spi_sv4_7i47s.bit 7i90_spi_svss8_8.bit
> 7i90_spi_svst4_8_ado.bit  7i90_spi_svst8_4im2.bit
> 7i90_spi_2x7i65.bit7i90_spi_st12.bit
> 7i90_spi_sv6_7i49.bit  7i90_spi_svst1_4_7i47s.bit
> 7i90_spi_svst4_8.bit  7i90_spi_svst8_8im2.bit
> 7i90_spi_da2.bit   7i90_spi_st18.bit
> 7i90_spi_svsp8_6_7i46.bit  7i90_spi_svst1_4_7i47sd.bit
> 7i90_spi_svst6_6_7i52s.bit7i90_spi_svsttp6_6_7i39.bit
> 7i90_spi_justio.bit7i90_spi_st8_plasma.bit
> 7i90_spi_svss6_6.bit   7i90_spi_svst1_5_7i47.bit
> 7i90_spi_svst6_6_7i52sd.bit   7i90_spi_svstua6_6_6_7i48.bit
> 7i90_spi_sssv6_36.bit  7i90_spi_sv12.bit
> 7i90_spi_svss6_8.bit   7i90_spi_svst2_4_7i47.bit
> 7i90_spi_svst8_12_2x7i47.bit  7i90_spi_svua8_4.bit
> 7i90_spi_sssvst8_1_5_7i47.bit  7i90_spi_sv12im_2x7i48.bit
> 7i90_spi_svss8_44.bit  7i90_spi_svst2_4_7i47d.bit
> 7i90_spi_svst8_4.bit  7i90_spi_svua8_8.bit
>
> which is about 4x compared to whats listed in the 7i90HD.pdf.  ATM I
> need 2 stepgens, a better pwmgen so I don't have to cobble it up to
> work with a vfd in the hal file, and one encoder, maybe 2 if I was
> ever to put a turret on it.  Is there a preferred bitfile to load
> based on that?
>
> Everything else I can cobble up in gpio, which there would be plenty
> of considering the loadrt options passed at load time.
>
> > Then you have to flash the card on your printer port with
> >
> > sudo ./mesaflash --verbose --epp --device 7i90 \
> > --addr 0xd010 --addr_hi 0xd000 \
> > --write configs/hostmot2/7i90_spi_svst4_8.bit
> >
> > Change the addr and the filename!
> > grep the addr from  lspci -v.
> >
> >
> > The addr option depends on your system.
> > Maybe you can omit it and using the parport defaults.
>
> I'll make a cable today, and see if I can find that bag of Kentucky
> Twist for added good luck. :)
>
That guy Murphy is in residence again, drinking my beer & hiding a bag of 
8 ea 26 pin female idc connectors. S, 10 more, gold flashed, at 
about $13 incl. small box 1-3 day USPS shipping. ShowMeCables.com.

If I ever find where he (Murphy) is hiding, he is so going to be cooling 
out.

The reason I said 8 above is because I've only used 2 out of a bag of 10 
I just bought this past year.  And thought I had them stashed in the 
same drawer with 15 or more assorted genders of db25 idc connectors.

Go rig some cable chain since today & tomorrow are the last days warm 
enough to open the garage door for working room behind this lathe.

-- later, after dinner.

And that was a wasted day, no 3/4" EMT in the whole darned county, so I 
had to make about a 35 mile round trip to a Lowes to get it.  And by the 
time I was back, it was TwoferTuesday at Gino's so all the way to the 
other end of town to get two baked spaghetti dinners & salads.

But, 'sposed to have nice weather tomorrow so maybe I can get some holes 
drilled and tapped in the back of the bed to hold the conduit and anchor 
the fixed end of the cable chain .

Some mornings, its just not worth it to gnaw thru the straps & get up to 
pee. :(

> Thanks Matsche.

> [...]

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Re: [Emc-users] 7i90HD programming

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 01 November 2016 07:36:35 W. Martinjak wrote:

> As I have written:
>
>The bit files are in:
>
> 7i90/configs/hostmot2/
>
> You need one of the 7i90_spi*.bit  files.
And from the descriptions it looks like any of them will do as I can 
restrict the loadrt line to what I want, and the remainder is then gpio.
Its an elderly lathe, should there be a default I should try to write 
once I've assembled the cable?
restricting the listing to spi shows:

gene@coyote:/lib/firmware/hm2/7i90$ ls 7i90_spi*.bit
7i90_spi_24xqctronly.bit   7i90_spi_sssvst8_8_8.bit
7i90_spi_sv4_7i47s.bit 7i90_spi_svss8_8.bit 
7i90_spi_svst4_8_ado.bit  7i90_spi_svst8_4im2.bit
7i90_spi_2x7i65.bit7i90_spi_st12.bit   
7i90_spi_sv6_7i49.bit  7i90_spi_svst1_4_7i47s.bit   
7i90_spi_svst4_8.bit  7i90_spi_svst8_8im2.bit
7i90_spi_da2.bit   7i90_spi_st18.bit   
7i90_spi_svsp8_6_7i46.bit  7i90_spi_svst1_4_7i47sd.bit  
7i90_spi_svst6_6_7i52s.bit7i90_spi_svsttp6_6_7i39.bit
7i90_spi_justio.bit7i90_spi_st8_plasma.bit 
7i90_spi_svss6_6.bit   7i90_spi_svst1_5_7i47.bit
7i90_spi_svst6_6_7i52sd.bit   7i90_spi_svstua6_6_6_7i48.bit
7i90_spi_sssv6_36.bit  7i90_spi_sv12.bit   
7i90_spi_svss6_8.bit   7i90_spi_svst2_4_7i47.bit
7i90_spi_svst8_12_2x7i47.bit  7i90_spi_svua8_4.bit
7i90_spi_sssvst8_1_5_7i47.bit  7i90_spi_sv12im_2x7i48.bit  
7i90_spi_svss8_44.bit  7i90_spi_svst2_4_7i47d.bit   
7i90_spi_svst8_4.bit  7i90_spi_svua8_8.bit

which is about 4x compared to whats listed in the 7i90HD.pdf.  ATM I need 
2 stepgens, a better pwmgen so I don't have to cobble it up to work with 
a vfd in the hal file, and one encoder, maybe 2 if I was ever to put a 
turret on it.  Is there a preferred bitfile to load based on that?

Everything else I can cobble up in gpio, which there would be plenty of 
considering the loadrt options passed at load time.

> Then you have to flash the card on your printer port with
>
> sudo ./mesaflash --verbose --epp --device 7i90 \
> --addr 0xd010 --addr_hi 0xd000 \
> --write configs/hostmot2/7i90_spi_svst4_8.bit
>
> Change the addr and the filename!
> grep the addr from  lspci -v.
>
>
> The addr option depends on your system.
> Maybe you can omit it and using the parport defaults.
>
I'll make a cable today, and see if I can find that bag of Kentucky Twist 
for added good luck. :)

Thanks Matsche.

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Re: [Emc-users] 7i90HD programming

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 01 November 2016 05:34:34 andy pugh wrote:

> On 1 November 2016 at 03:18, Gene Heskett  wrote:
> > Surveying my system, thinking I can probably program this 7i90HD
> > right on this machine from its unused parport,
>
> You almost certainly want to use Mesaflash.

Which brings up a question thats been bugging me for a while:

Whats the difference between mesaflash, and mesaflash3.  They seem to be 
interchangeable when its a 5i25 on the end of the cable.  But there is a 
small difference in the codes size.

But, but but, mesaflash works on a pci interface only, or is that because 
I've only used it against pci cards? --help says it can do both.  And 
the option list for mesaflash is quite a but longer than it is for 
mesaflash3, as if the code has been made to autodetect the interface? 

Mesaflash's option list shows the 7i90 as having 4 interfaces, but the HD 
apparently has no usb:
 --epp use EPP interface to connect to board, only for boards 
with multiply intefaces (7i43, 7i90, 7i64)
  --usb use USB interface to connect to board, only for boards 
with multiply intefaces (7i43, 7i90, 7i64)
  --spi use SPI interface to connect to board, only for boards 
with multiply intefaces (7i43, 7i90, 7i64)
  --serial  use serial interface to connect to board, only for boards 
with multiply intefaces (7i43, 7i90, 7i64)

The 7i90HD variant isn't there.  But since I can make the cable, and both 
have an --info option, I'll do that when I am up for the day.

After a couple hours of googling last night, it seems the linux spi 
drivers are for specific hardware as I find no reference to useing an 
epp parport to simulate spi.  This mobo is now long in the tooth and has 
no such hardware on it.

All in all, confusing. And needs more coffee to sort it.

Thanks Andy.

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Re: [Emc-users] 7i90HD programming

[W. Martinjak]

As I have written:

   The bit files are in:

7i90/configs/hostmot2/

You need one of the 7i90_spi*.bit  files.
Then you have to flash the card on your printer port with

sudo ./mesaflash --verbose --epp --device 7i90 \
--addr 0xd010 --addr_hi 0xd000 \
--write configs/hostmot2/7i90_spi_svst4_8.bit

Change the addr and the filename!
grep the addr from  lspci -v.


The addr option depends on your system.
Maybe you can omit it and using the parport defaults.


Matsche

On 2016-11-01 04:18, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings everybody;
>
> Surveying my system, thinking I can probably program this 7i90HD right on 
> this machine from its unused parport, I go traipsing into:
> /lib/modules/3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64/kernel/drivers/spi, and find I have a 
> choice of 3:
>
> spi-bitbang.ko  spi-butterfly.ko  spi-lm70llp.ko
>
> Now, since there is not a switch or jumper on the 7i90HD to turn its 26 
> pin port from one to the other modes, and there is not a discussion of 
> it in the 7i90HD pdf, I have to assume two things:
>
> 1. The 7i90HD is smart enough to tell whats driving it, and switch itself 
> accordingly.
>
> 2. That SPI can be done over an EPP parport.
>
> So that leaves me with a 3 choice fork in the road.
>
> Is linux smart enough that it will bitch constructively if I try to 
> modprobe the wrong one? spi-bitbang.ko sounds the most promising, but I 
> don't want to kill the port, or any kittens playing.
>
> Or is this pristine dirt I am about to walk on?
>
> modprobe spi-bitbang had no errors, and it shows up in an lsmod as not 
> linked to anything else. I would have assumed it would have grabbed 
> parport, but I rmmod'd that whole lp,etc chain without effecting it or 
> generating a fuss.
>
> Obviously I do not have a good grasp of what the heck it is that I'm 
> trying to do.
>
> Tutorials, links to tutorials, anybody?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett

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Re: [Emc-users] 7i90HD programming

[andy pugh]

On 1 November 2016 at 03:18, Gene Heskett  wrote:
> Surveying my system, thinking I can probably program this 7i90HD right on
> this machine from its unused parport,

You almost certainly want to use Mesaflash.

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