Re: [beagleboard] Re: Surefire PRU - Setup.

2017-05-21 Thread William Hermans
Sounds like fun. GPIO is super easy on this platform, once you know how the GPIO subsystem works. PWM and ADC is a little more complicated. but not much. PWM can be a bit of a bugger, because some of the examples do not really work( overlays ). With PWM it becomes an exercise of wills, as you the

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Surefire PRU - Setup.

2017-05-21 Thread ercolano7777
On Saturday, May 20, 2017 at 5:58:14 PM UTC-7, William Hermans wrote: > > I do not understand why you would have "field people" playing around with > hardware overlays though. Once your hardware is finalized, it should never > change. Which is one small reason why I personally find Universal IO

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Surefire PRU - Setup.

2017-05-21 Thread ercolano7777
On Saturday, May 20, 2017 at 6:14:23 PM UTC-7, William Hermans wrote: > > Greg, > > You know what. If I were you, I would get a Beaglebone black or green, and > make learning about it your favorite hobby. This way, you could experiment > with various things, until you're happy with what you

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Surefire PRU - Setup.

2017-05-21 Thread ercolano7777
On Saturday, May 20, 2017 at 6:27:31 PM UTC-7, William Hermans wrote: > > By the way these are my own preffered "pin mux mode" "spread sheet" PDF > files for working with various pins: > https://github.com/wphermans/bb-info/blob/master/BeagleboneBlackP8HeaderPinMuxModes.pdf > Thanks! Yes,

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Surefire PRU - Setup.

2017-05-21 Thread ercolano7777
On Saturday, May 20, 2017 at 5:59:40 PM UTC-7, William Hermans wrote: > > System reference manual SRM, Technical reference manual TRM. > Ah, OK -- it's confusing though; searching for "beaglebone technical reference manual" took me to this beagleboard.org page

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Surefire PRU - Setup.

2017-05-20 Thread William Hermans
t; >>> Gerald >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> *From:* beagleboard@googlegroups.com [mailto:beagleboard@googlegrou >>> ps.com] *On Behalf Of *William Hermans >>> *Sent:* Saturday, May 20, 2017 8:00 PM >>> *T

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Surefire PRU - Setup.

2017-05-20 Thread William Hermans
gt;> >> >> >> >> *From:* beagleboard@googlegroups.com [mailto:beagleboard@googlegroups.com] >> *On Behalf Of *William Hermans >> *Sent:* Saturday, May 20, 2017 8:00 PM >> *To:* beagleboard@googlegroups.com >> *Subject:* Re: [beagleboard] Re:

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Surefire PRU - Setup.

2017-05-20 Thread William Hermans
turday, May 20, 2017 8:00 PM > *To:* beagleboard@googlegroups.com > *Subject:* Re: [beagleboard] Re: Surefire PRU - Setup. > > > > System reference manual SRM, Technical reference manual TRM. > > > > On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 5:58 PM, William Hermans <yyrk...@gmail.com> >

RE: [beagleboard] Re: Surefire PRU - Setup.

2017-05-20 Thread Gerald Coley
To: beagleboard@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [beagleboard] Re: Surefire PRU - Setup. System reference manual SRM, Technical reference manual TRM. On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 5:58 PM, William Hermans <yyrk...@gmail.com<mailto:yyrk...@gmail.com>> wrote: No, prior to uboot overlays, overlays

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Surefire PRU - Setup.

2017-05-20 Thread William Hermans
System reference manual SRM, Technical reference manual TRM. On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 5:58 PM, William Hermans wrote: > No, prior to uboot overlays, overlays were loaded from the initrd, at > best. Also we need to understand that the board file(also an overlay of > sorts - but

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Surefire PRU - Setup.

2017-05-20 Thread William Hermans
No, prior to uboot overlays, overlays were loaded from the initrd, at best. Also we need to understand that the board file(also an overlay of sorts - but required )is seperate from all this discussion. I do not understand why you would have "field people" playing around with hardware overlays

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Surefire PRU - Setup.

2017-05-20 Thread ercolano7777
On Saturday, May 20, 2017 at 4:42:46 PM UTC-7, ercola...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On Thursday, May 18, 2017 at 3:58:03 PM UTC-7, William Hermans wrote: > >> [..]along with the TRM, or whatever documentation that makes the most >> sense to you. [..] >> > > For fun, I tried to determine what 0x37

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Surefire PRU - Setup.

2017-05-20 Thread ercolano7777
On Thursday, May 18, 2017 at 3:58:03 PM UTC-7, William Hermans wrote: > > So a lot of text there to "Wade" through so I'll try to answer the > questions you have in order. Without the "Sea of text" ;) > No walls of text; OK, will try to keep it shorter. I think Universal IO, which includes

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Surefire PRU - Setup.

2017-05-18 Thread William Hermans
On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 8:35 PM, Greg Ercolano wrote: > > . . . > So a lot of text there to "Wade" through so I'll try to answer the questions you have in order. Without the "Sea of text" ;) I think Universal IO, which includes the shell script config-pin is a really cool

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Surefire PRU - Setup.

2017-05-18 Thread Greg Ercolano
On 05/17/17 13:42, William Hermans wrote: > On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 7:41 PM, > wrote: > I've been a C and assembly programmer since the 80's, but all of this > with dtc is still pure greek to me. I'm assuming the original intent >

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Surefire PRU - Setup.

2017-05-17 Thread ercolano7777
On 05/16/17 19:21, Greg Ercolano wrote: > On 05/16/17 17:36, Greg Ercolano wrote: >> root@beaglebone:~/dtb-rebuilder# make >> DTC src/arm/am437x-gp-evm.dtb >> FATAL ERROR: Unrecognized check name "unit_address_vs_reg" <-- >> Makefile:136: recipe for target

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Surefire PRU - Setup.

2017-05-17 Thread William Hermans
On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 7:41 PM, wrote: > I've been a C and assembly programmer since the 80's, but all of this with > dtc is still pure greek to me. > I'm assuming the original intent was to install the latest git version of > the dtc compiler, though I'm not sure what

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Surefire PRU - Setup.

2017-05-17 Thread Robert Nelson
On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 9:41 PM, wrote: > On Tuesday, May 16, 2017 at 7:11:33 PM UTC-7, RobertCNelson wrote: >> >> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 7:36 PM, Greg Ercolano wrote: >> > root@beaglebone:~/dtb-rebuilder# make >> > DTC src/arm/am437x-gp-evm.dtb

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Surefire PRU - Setup.

2017-05-17 Thread Gary Thomas
On 2017-05-17 04:21, Greg Ercolano wrote: On 05/16/17 17:36, Greg Ercolano wrote: root@beaglebone:~/dtb-rebuilder# make DTC src/arm/am437x-gp-evm.dtb FATAL ERROR: Unrecognized check name "unit_address_vs_reg" <-- Makefile:136: recipe for target 'src/arm/am437x-gp-evm.dtb'

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Surefire PRU - Setup.

2017-05-17 Thread Greg Ercolano
On 05/16/17 17:36, Greg Ercolano wrote: > root@beaglebone:~/dtb-rebuilder# make > DTC src/arm/am437x-gp-evm.dtb > FATAL ERROR: Unrecognized check name "unit_address_vs_reg" <-- > Makefile:136: recipe for target 'src/arm/am437x-gp-evm.dtb' failed <-- > make[1]: ***

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Surefire PRU - Setup.

2017-05-17 Thread ercolano7777
On Tuesday, May 16, 2017 at 7:11:33 PM UTC-7, RobertCNelson wrote: > > On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 7:36 PM, Greg Ercolano > wrote: > > root@beaglebone:~/dtb-rebuilder# make > > DTC src/arm/am437x-gp-evm.dtb > > FATAL ERROR: Unrecognized check name "unit_address_vs_reg"

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Surefire PRU - Setup.

2017-05-16 Thread Robert Nelson
On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 7:36 PM, Greg Ercolano wrote: > On 05/16/17 17:17, Greg Ercolano wrote: >> On 05/16/17 16:56, ercolano7...@gmail.com wrote: >>> I did notice a few error messages using the OP's disk image + script.. >>> [..] >>> Unpacking linux-image-4.4.27-ti-r62

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Surefire PRU - Setup.

2017-05-16 Thread Greg Ercolano
On 05/16/17 17:17, Greg Ercolano wrote: > On 05/16/17 16:56, ercolano7...@gmail.com wrote: >> I did notice a few error messages using the OP's disk image + script.. >> [..] >> Unpacking linux-image-4.4.27-ti-r62 (1jessie) ... >> Setting up linux-image-4.4.27-ti-r62 (1jessie) ... >> Error! Error!

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Surefire PRU - Setup.

2017-05-16 Thread Greg Ercolano
On 05/16/17 16:56, ercolano7...@gmail.com wrote: > I did notice a few error messages using the OP's disk image + script.. > While the script ran, I saw these errors scroll by -- is this something I > should ignore? > _ > [..]

[beagleboard] Re: Surefire PRU - Setup.

2017-05-16 Thread ercolano7777
I did notice a few error messages using the OP's disk image + script.. While the script ran, I saw these errors scroll by -- is this something I should ignore? _ [..] Selecting previously unselected package

[beagleboard] Re: Surefire PRU - Setup.

2016-11-27 Thread dinuxbg
Many thanks for the script. The blinking-led notes for UIO now point to it: https://github.com/dinuxbg/pru-gcc-examples/tree/master/blinking-led#uio-host-driver Regards, Dimitar On Saturday, November 26, 2016 at 9:49:57 PM UTC+2, Neil Jubinville wrote: > > Hi All, > > *Thanks for all the