RE: virtex uImage and serial ports

...@xiphos.ca] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 12:14 PM To: John Linn Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org Subject: RE: virtex uImage and serial ports Gidday John, Thanks for the pointer. I think I have already gone through every possible page on the wiki, without finding my answer. There are some

RE: XUPV2P update to kernel 2.6 fails

You should visit http://xilinx.wikidot.com as there's more information there. In general, this board is not directly supported, but is very similar to ML405, a board with a Virtex 4 and a 405 processor. Thanks, John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: needhelp to install linux 2.6 on ppc405 of a virtex II pro

We don't directly support the V2Pro, but we do support the Virtex 4 which also uses the ppc405 in the Xilinx GIT Tree. git://git.xilinx.com http://git.xilinx.com You should make sure that you use arch/powerpc rather than arch/ppc which many older web sites have tutorials about. Arch/ppc is not

RE: GDB, xilinx ml50x

Hi Stuart, Most of my work is in the kernel rather than user space, but I've used old GDB versions a small amount. I'm copying Brian as he has used it more than myself. Did you get older versions of GDB to work but not the 6.8? Did you build GDB yourself or using prebuilt? With regards to

RE: virtex 4 linux driver bus error

See the inline comments. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:linuxppc-embedded- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mirsad Vejseli Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 6:10 AM To: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org Subject: virtex 4 linux driver bus error hello at all, at the

RE: Xilininx GPIO

Hi Peter, Sorry for the delay. Are you using arch/powerpc and the xilinx_gpio driver from the Xilinx Git tree has not been converted to use device tree yet? We have a new gpio driver that we have not released out yet that is flattened and designed to work with arch/powerpc. I have

RE: Compile program using XGpio

Hi Bruno, I don't think you can do what you're trying to do, unless I'm misunderstanding or just not smart enough. The EDK from Xilinx ships with drivers that are not Linux drivers. Those functions in main below are intended for a standalone (no RTOS) system such they can't just be called

RE: xparameters file in the Xilinx kernel tree version 2.6.27-rc4

Hi Ming, Arch/ppc has gone away. We don’t support it any longer as it went away in the mainline kernel also. You should migrate to arch/powerpc. There is a git tag, last-arch-ppc, that is visible from http://git.xilinx.com/linux-2.6-xlnx.git. You can use that tag in git to reset back

RE: Linux driver for Xilinx ICAP

Hi Ming, I’m copying our local expert on this core to see his thoughts as I don’t actively use this core myself. Thanks, John From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MingLiu Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 7:48 AM To:

RE: EDK10.1 and emaclite

Hi Georg, There is no way to configure the PHY using the EMAC lite as that's part of what makes it lite. So the PHY on the board has to be configured correctly by strapping it on the board. Maybe you can include other PHY drivers to do this as I'm not sure about that. Thanks, John

RE: LL_TEMAC+LL_DMA configuration on Xilinx ML507

Hi Stu, I have attached the MHS file for the v2 bitstream. I just pushed out changes yesterday to our git tree that move us to a new bit stream that is based on the V5FXT development kit that Xilinx released on xilinx.com. If interested, you can find more info on http://xilinx.wikidot.com.

RE: Device Tree

Hi Georg, Our git tree, git://git.xilinx.com, has support for the ML405 board which is a V4 board. The following wiki page, http://xilinx.wikidot.com, shows how to generate a device tree for the kernel and other details you'll need. The kernel from our git tree is configured for the device tree

RE: Device Tree

To: John Linn Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: Device Tree Hi John, yes, i found the wiki link in another post of you. nice , thank you. can you tell me how to generate the dts file in the EDK 10.2 ? i have read that the gen_mhs_devtree script is now integrated ? i see

RE: EDK10.1 and emaclite

Hi Georg, I don't really know much about the state of the emac lite driver in the Git tree. I inherited the Git tree with some stuff already in it. I test the LL TEMAC driver, but haven't had the bandwidth and priority to do any emac lite testing. Thanks, John -Original Message-

RE: Porting linux on PPC405

Hi Vineeth, I don't directly support that board, but it's similar to the ML405 in that it uses a 405 processor. Since I don't test on that board or any V2Pro board, I'm going to tell you my experience on the ML405, a V4 board. See below. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [PATCH] Linux Device Driver for Xilinx LL TEMAC 10/100/1000 EthernetNIC

I'm not claiming to be a Linux driver expert as I'm still learning. Some of the comments are nits. Thanks for the effort you're putting in on this. Linux Device Driver for Xilinx LL TEMAC 10/100/1000 Ethernet NIC Original Author Yoshio Kashiwagi Updated and Maintained by David Lynch

RE: [PATCH] Linux Device Driver for Xilinx LL TEMAC 10/100/1000 EthernetNIC

I screwed up and forgot to copy all on this previously. -Original Message- From: David H. Lynch Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 3:19 PM To: John Linn Subject: Re: [PATCH] Linux Device Driver for Xilinx LL TEMAC 10/100/1000 EthernetNIC John Linn wrote

RE: Linux issues on Xilinx XUPV2P board

Hi Alan, I'm assuming you must not have Git installed from the question, otherwise you would be using git clone as the site shows. On the http://git.xilinx.com, it says the following, Users without Git installed may create a tar file by using the snapshot feature. Select the tree view of the

RE: Linux issues on Xilinx XUPV2P board

high priority for us. Thanks, John -Original Message- From: Alan Casey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 8:36 AM To: John Linn; wangyanlong; linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org Subject: RE: Linux issues on Xilinx XUPV2P board Hi John, Im not having any problems

RE: ml507 initrd problem

Hi Stu, I realize you are trying to get your own ram disk to work, but if you want to get a baseline you can use one we have on our wiki site, at http://xilinx.wikidot.com/open-source-linux, under Files To Download. This is the same ram disk that is included in the ELDK. This is the ram

RE: ml507 initrd problem

Bershtein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 9:34 AM To: John Linn; linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org Subject: RE: ml507 initrd problem Morning John, Thanks for the tip. Running said ramdisk things certainly look lively, I'll add a list of opens that I see at boot up

RE: Board is not booting - Please Help me

Hi Grant, John Bonesio is working with Montavista to get these problems solved. Thanks, John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:linuxppc-embedded- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grant Likely Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 8:34 PM To: Naresh Bhat Cc:

RE: Xilinx Linux 2.6 for XPS LL_TEMAC and LL_FIFO problem

{resend as I forgot to send to the mailing list) Hi Mirek, Since this is a u-boot issue, we can move this conversation off this list. The u-boot that is in the git repository has not been tested on the Virtex4 platform. I have only tested on the ML507, Virtex 5 platform. There's not a

RE: Xilinx Linux 2.6 for XPS LL_TEMAC and LL_FIFO problem

Hi Mirek, We are not currently testing the LL TEMAC driver with the LL FIFO. We only test with the DMA configuration. I also realize this may not be documented that well and we may need to work on that. Our reasoning is that in the Virtex5 FXT devices the DMA is hard so that it does not cost any

RE: Booting ML405 (Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found)

restricting the memory to 32 Meg, you might get try not doing this to get the kernel running properly, then make that change. Hope that helps, John From: neeraj garg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 1:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; John Linn

RE: Booting ML405 (Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found)

The only difference I see is the tools, we are using ELDK 4.1 for now. I have tested this on the ML405 in the past, not for a bit as our automated testing uses an NFS root. Since this is arch/ppc (it appears, no boot line), we have stopped work on this architecture and are now encouraging (maybe

RE: booting an ML405

Hi Lorenzo, I'm assuming you're trying to use the reference design bit stream for the ML405 that we have had out on the http://git.xilinx.com site? Since the bootstrap loader is working, the UART appears to be OK. Assuming you have the kernel configuration right with the 8250 driver and the

RE: Linux on Virtex board with ARCH=powerpc

the console, enabled, look the same as the 550 as I have seen that give hints to problems sometimes. Thanks, John -Original Message- From: Peter Mendham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 6:31 AM To: John Linn Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: Linux on Virtex board

RE: Linux on Virtex board with ARCH=powerpc

. Sorry it's not one of my primary test cases at this point in time. Thanks, John -Original Message- From: Peter Mendham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 7:24 AM To: John Linn Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: Linux on Virtex board with ARCH=powerpc Hi

RE: Linux on Virtex board with ARCH=powerpc

and sorry for the inconvenience, John -Original Message- From: Peter Mendham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 10:18 AM To: John Linn Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: Linux on Virtex board with ARCH=powerpc OK, this is all new to me, so please bear with me

RE: Linux on Virtex board with ARCH=powerpc

Hi Peter, I'm not up on what can be done with the simple image you refer to in 1. I'm sure I should be, but there's a lot to learn. With regards to 2, the elf image, zImage (without the elf extension), is located in arch/powerpc/boot. You can make a SystemACE file from that elf image just as

RE: Linux on Virtex board with ARCH=powerpc

; #size-cells = 1; compatible = xlnx,plb-v46-1.02.a; ranges ; } ; } ; -Original Message- From: Peter Mendham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 1:21 PM To: John Linn Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: Linux

RE: PPC to PowerPC Migration

configuration. Maybe this is not what you're looking for, but thought I'd offer. Others have used this to get their own boards running with Linux. Look at Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt for some device tree information. Thanks, John Linn Linux Development Strategy Xilinx is looking

RE: linux 2.6 hangs at __delay function on Viretx 4 board

Hi Peter, Yes you need to enable UARTLITE as the console in the kernel configuration. You have the command line syntax, ttyUL0, correct. They have now changed the UART 16550 to be a free core in the EDK, not sure which version of the EDK that happened. Thanks, John -Original Message-

RE: ML507 EDK 10.1

to use the ramdisk. make ARCH=powerpc zImage.initrd Hope that helps, John Linn -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of somshekar c kadam Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 4:19 PM To: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org Subject: ML507 EDK 10.1 Hi All, Currently

RE: linux 2.6 hangs at __delay function on Viretx 4 board

Hi Swamy, Sorry for the long delay. Sounds like the console is not setup correctly. I notice in your command line it appears that you have 2 console statements. I have not tested this ever and I would change it to only have the console=ttyS0,9600. I have seen other mailings, no Xilinx

RE: Cross toolchain for ppc405 (virtex-4)

Hi Miroslaw, I'm not sure on what version of gcc and glibc it's using, but I have been using ELDK 4.1 from denx.com. There are newer versions. Thanks, John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Mirek23 Sent: Wed 5/28/2008 9:54 AM To: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org

RE: arch/powerpc, Xilinx, and mainline kernel support

Hi Mike, Thanks for the input, sounds right to me, we'll put it on the list of things to do. In general we will be testing our work on the current version of the Xilinx tools and not maintaining them for all versions of the Xilinx tools, but we need a way to spell that out cleanly. Thanks, John

RE: linux 2.6 hangs at __delay function on Viretx 4 board

in those locations. I am debugging but do not have much clue. Swamy John Linn wrote: Hi Swamy, I have seen this sometime before I think, but don't remember why. I see that udelay depends on loops_per_jiffy, have you looked to see what value it is? Maybe it's garbage and some large value

RE: linux 2.6 hangs at __delay function on Viretx 4 board

Hi Swamy, I have seen this sometime before I think, but don't remember why. I see that udelay depends on loops_per_jiffy, have you looked to see what value it is? Maybe it's garbage and some large value? Have you tried dumping the __log_buf to understand how far it got thru booting the kernel

RE: Linux on Ml410

Hi Mojtaba, Did you build the FPGA bit stream yourself or get it from somewhere? Specifying ttyS0 means you should have a 16550 UART in the hardware build, do you? -- John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mojtaba Sent: Tuesday, May 13,

RE: Virtex V5FX PPC 440 Support In Xilinx Git Tree

- From: Peter Korsgaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Korsgaard Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 3:51 AM To: John Linn Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org; git Subject: Re: Virtex V5FX PPC 440 Support In Xilinx Git Tree John == John Linn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John I pushed

[PATCH 0/3] [POWERPC] [V2][RFC] of_serial and boot patches introduction

I am sending V2 series of patches that fix the OF serial driver and add support to it and the boot for the Xilinx UART 16550. The ePAPR, although not a formal spec yet, proposes allowing reg-shift for ns16550. We believe this is a reasonable approach and have implemented it in this patch

RE: xilinx Ml405 NFS mount problem

Hi Ming, It’s not obvious to me what the problem is as I don’t see any driver failures. Have you tried using a ramdisk and then seeing if the network is working before using NFS root? And I’m assuming you have used the NFS root before so you know that it’s good for sure. I test on

RE: xilinx Ml405 NFS mount problem

To: MingLiu Cc: John Linn; linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org Subject: RE: xilinx Ml405 NFS mount problem I think you may be suffering from the latest LL_TEMAC packet loss problem. (NFS/UDP really does not like packet loss) Let me guess. You are using a base system from Base System Builder Wizard? EDK

Virtex V5FX PPC 440 Support In Xilinx Git Tree

I pushed PowerPC 440 support to the Xilinx Git server with support for ppc arch and with powerpc arch support coming in the near future. A default kernel configuration file, ml507_defconfig, is provided in the kernel tree to support the Xilinx ML507 board with the PowerPC 440. Thanks,

RE: xilinx Ml405 NFS mount problem

Hi Rob, I am using GigE and no checksum offload. I don't have a quick way to test packet loss. EDK 10.1 may help your problem. -- John -Original Message- From: Robert Woodworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 5:44 PM To: John Linn Cc: MingLiu; linuxppc

RE: U-boot + Linux 2.6 + Avnet FX12 MM (based on ML403 config)

Hi Mirek, Our Git server from Xilinx, git.xilinx.com, has a kernel that is 2.6.24 based if this helps. All of my testing for Virtex 4 is on the ML405 board which is an FX20 device rather than an FX12, but the kernel configuration is pretty much compatible. Thanks, John -Original

RE: Xilinx LLTEMAC driver issues

Hi Magnus, Sorry to hear you're having problems with it. I am doing testing on an ML405 which is the same board but with a bigger FPGA, but with ppc arch and I don't see this issue. I have done limited testing with powerpc arch and the LL TEMAC, but I didn't see this issue there either.

RE: Network Bad Kernel Access

PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grant Likely Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 5:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Stephen Neuendorffer; John Linn Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: Network Bad Kernel Access On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 7:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having a problem with my network

RE: Xilinx Temac Timer ?

Hi Kevin, I didn't write the code but I know the driver somewhat. I think the intention of stopping the timer is to prevent the reentrancy as the comment says because there is a function, gmii_poll, that is setup on the timer to go read the phy registers to see if anything changed in the phy.

RE: Cannot open root device xsysace/disco0/part3 or 00:00

Hi Jose, I didn't see that you configured the kernel to put the Xilinx system ace driver in? It's under device drivers, block devices. Thanks, John From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of José Luis Añamuro Machicao Sent:

RE: Uart(lite)/ELDK 4.1 section mismatch - ML403

server if you want as I know the state of it (git://git.xilinx.com/linux-2.6-xlnx.git). Thanks John Linn From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Schalken Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 8:02 AM To: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org

RE: Using GDB with Abatron's BDI2000 and the ppc405 in the Xilinx VirtexII Pro

Hi Robert, Here's a link to an app note on it. I'm using it on the 405 right now as we speak. I used the app note to get it working. If you have problems, let me know. http://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/application_notes/xapp981.pd f Thanks, John Linn Xilinx Open Source

RE: XMD to debug Linux kernel 2.6

Hi Ramkumar, XMD can definitely be used to help debug a kernel. I use it to dump registers and to dump memory. I'm not sure on the TLB entries yet but will check into it. I'm sure that XMD does not handle any virtual address to physical conversions. I use it to dump the log buff

Problems in fixup_device function

I've added some code to virtex_device_fixup and am seeing some strange side affects. I've added code to read from an iic device and populate the mac address including ioremap. The code works fine, but the side affects are not fine. Anyone have any experience here? I see the

RE: Problems in fixup_device function

I am loading the mac address into the data of the platform device. -- John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grant Likely Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 12:39 PM To: John Linn Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: Problems

RE: Xilinx Temac link detect

Hi Kevin, I couldn't find any example laying around, so I took a shot at it based on other non-network examples we had. I've not personally done it so bear that in mind. I have not tried to compile any of this, just stole parts for places and pasted in. Hope it helps, John #include ioctl.h

RE: Xilinx git tree, LLTemac driver

Hi Magnus, I just applied the change to the git tree for getting the mac address from the board data and it looks like I should have taken into account the powerpc arch also as I was building and testing ppc arch. It looks like #ifndef needs to be added around the use of the __res for copying

BUG: scheduling while atomic

I'm using 2.6.24-rc8 on a PPC 440 and getting this error. I've also seen another form of it when doing Telnet. In this case, I'm doing a copy of a file on an NFS mount. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, John Linn # cp ftptest2 ftptest2_copied BUG: scheduling while