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1Some information about this BSP
2================================
3
4ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
5----------------
6Acknowledgements:
7
8 Valuable information was obtained from the following drivers
9
10    linux: (BCM54xx) Maciej W. Rozycki, Amy Fong.
11
12 This BSP also builds on top of the work of others who have contributed
13 to similar RTEMS (powerpc) BSPs, most notably Eric Valette, Eric Norum
14 and others.
15
16 This BSP was produced by the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
17 Stanford University under contract with the US Department of Energy.
18
19LICENSE
20-------
21See ./LICENSE file.
22
23Note that not all files that are part of this BSP were written by
24myself. Consult individual file headers for copyright
25and authorship information.
26
27HARDWARE SUPPORT
28===============
29(some of the headers mentioned below contain more
30detailed information)
31
32NOTE:  The BSP supports the mvme3100 board.
33
34WARNING: It is extremely important that a MOTLoad "waitProbe", "netShut"
35         sequence be executed before booting RTEMS. Otherwise, network
36         interface interrupt handlers installed by MOTLoad may cause memory
37         corruption
38
39CONSOLE: 2 serial devices, UART driver from 'shared' - no surprises
40       ("/dev/ttyS0", [="/dev/console"], "/dev/ttyS1"). (Only
41       /dev/ttyS0 is accessible from the front panel.)
42
43CLOCK: Decrementer, same as other PPC BSPs. (FIXME: a openpic timer
44       could be used.) The bookE decrementer is slightly different
45           from the classic PPC decrementer but the differences are
46           hidden from the user.
47
48PIC (interrupt controller) (bsp/irq.h): OpenPIC integrated with
49       the MPC8540. (see also: bsp/openpic.h).
50
51PCI (bsp/pci.h):
52       In addition to rtems' PCI API, a call is available to scan
53       all devices executing a user callback on each device.
54       BSP_pciConfigDump() is a convenience wrapper dumping essential
55       information (IDs, BAs, IRQ pin/line) to the console or a file.
56
57MEMORY MAP: MotLoad; all addresses (MEM + I/O) read from PCI config. space
58       are CPU addresses. For sake of portability, drivers should still
59       use the _IO_BASE, PCI_MEM_BASE, PCI_DRAM_OFFSET constants.
60
61NVRAM: No NVRAM.
62
63FLASH (bsp/flashPgm.h): Routines to write flash. Highest level
64      wrapper writes a file to flash.
65          NOTE: Writing to flash is disabled by default;
66                call BSP_flashWriteEnable().
67
68I2C (bsp.h, rtems/libi2c.h, libchip/i2c-xxx.h):  temp. sensor, eeprom
69      and real-time clock (RTC) are available as device files (bsp.h);
70          lower-level interface is provided by libi2c.h.
71
72          Available i2c devices are:
73
74                                /dev/i2c0.vpd-eeprom
75                                /dev/i2c0.usr-eeprom
76                                /dev/i2c0.usr1-eeprom
77                                /dev/i2c0.ds1621
78                                /dev/i2c0.ds1621-raw
79                                /dev/i2c0.ds1375-raw
80
81      You can e.g., read the board temperature:
82                            fd = open("/dev/i2c0.ds1621",O_RDONLY)
83                                read(fd,&temp,1)
84                                close(fd);
85                                printf("Board Temp. is %idegC\n",(int)temp);
86
87VME: (bsp/VME.h, bsp/vme_am_defs.h, bsp/VMEDMA.h).
88      *always* use VME.h API, if possible; do *not* use chip driver
89          (vmeTsi148.h) directly unless you know what you are
90          doing (i.e., if you need specific features provided by the particular
91          chip)
92
93      VMEConfig.h should not be used by applications as it makes them
94      dependent on BSP internals. VMEConfig.h is intended to be used
95          by BSP designers only.
96
97      VME interrupt priorities: the VME bridge(s) do not implement
98      priorities in hardware.
99      However, on the 3100 multiple physical interrupt
100      lines/wires connect the VME bridge to the PIC. Hence, it is possible
101      to assign the different wires different priorities at the PIC
102      (see bsp/openpic.h) and to route VME interrupts to different
103          wires according to their priority.
104          You need to call driver specific routines
105      for this (vmeXXXIntRoute()), however (for driver-specific API
106          consult bsp/vmeTsi148.h).
107
108          For VME DMA *always* use the bsp/VMEDMA.h API. DO NOT use
109          chip-specific features. Applications written using the bsp/VMEDMA.h
110          API are portable between the UniverseII and the Tsi148.
111
112HARDWARE TIMERS: (bsp/openpic.h). Programmable general-purpose
113      timers. Routines are provided to setup, start and stop
114          GPTs. The setup routine allows for specifying single-shot or periodic
115          mode and dispatches a user ISR when the GPT expires.
116
117NETWORK: (bsp/if_tsec_pub.h). In addition to the standard bsdnet
118      'attach' function the driver offers a low-level API that
119          can be used to implement alternate communication links
120          which are totally decoupled from BSDNET.
121
122          Consult 'KNOWN_PROBLEMS'.
123
124VPD: (bsp/vpd.h). The board's VPD (vital-product-data such as S/N,
125      MAC addresses and so forth) can be retrieved.
126
127BOOTING: BSP has a relocator-header. Clear MSR and jump to the first
128      instruction in the binary. R3 and R4, if non-null, point to the
129      start/end of an optional command line string that is copied into
130      BSP_commandline_string. The BSP is compatible with 'netboot'.
131
132Have fun.
133
134-- Till Straumann <strauman@slac.stanford.edu>, 2007.
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