Dobrica Pavlinušić's random unstructured stuff
Parallella: Revision 22
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power

Update boot flash

This is required to get CR10 led working

enviroment before u-boot update:

zynq-uboot> env print
baudrate=115200
bitstream_image=parallella.bit.bin
bootcmd=run modeboot
bootdelay=0
devicetree_image=devicetree.dtb
devicetree_size=0x20000
ethact=zynq_gem
ethaddr=04:4f:8b:00:10:13
fdt_high=0x20000000
initrd_high=0x20000000
ipaddr=192.168.0.99
kernel_image=uImage
kernel_size=0x500000
modeboot=run qspiboot
qspiboot=echo Configuring PL and Booting Linux...;mmcinfo;fatload mmc 0 0x4000000 ${bitstream_image};fpga load 0 0x4000000 0x3dbafc;fatload mmc 0 0x3000000 ${kernel_image};fatload mmc 0 0x2A00000 ${devicetree_image};bootm 0x3000000 - 0x2A00000
serverip=192.168.0.101
stderr=serial
stdin=serial
stdout=serial

Environment size: 655/131068 bytes

flasing output:

zynq-uboot> mmcinfo
Device: SDHCI
Manufacturer ID: 3
OEM: 5344
Name: SU08G 
Tran Speed: 50000000
Rd Block Len: 512
SD version 2.0
High Capacity: Yes
Capacity: 7.4 GiB
Bus Width: 4-bit
zynq-uboot> fatload mmc 0 0x4000000 parallella.7020.flash.bin
reading parallella.7020.flash.bin

4351800 bytes read
zynq-uboot> sf probe 0 0 0
SF: Detected N25Q128 with page size 64 KiB, total 16 MiB
zynq-uboot> sf erase 0 0x1000000
SF: Successfully erased 16777216 bytes @ 0x0
zynq-uboot> sf write 0x4000000 0 0x$filesize
SF: program success 4351800 bytes @ 0x0

# I skipped set ethaddr because it was already set correctly

zynq-uboot> set AdaptevaSKU SKUA101040
zynq-uboot> saveenv
Saving Environment to SPI Flash...
SF: Detected N25Q128 with page size 64 KiB, total 16 MiB
Erasing SPI flash...SF: Successfully erased 131072 bytes @ 0x4e0000
Writing to SPI flash...SF: program success 131072 bytes @ 0x4e0000
done

GPIO

dpavlin@parallella:~/parallella-utils$ make gpiotest
gcc -o gpiotest gpiotest.c para_morse.c para_gpio.c -Wall -lrt

dpavlin@parallella:~/parallella-utils$ sudo ./gpiotest 
[sudo] password for dpavlin: 
GPIOTEST - Basic test of para_gpio

Initializing...
Success, pausing 5 seconds
Setting direction (forces output to 0!)...
Pausing 5 seconds
Reading multiple times
> 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 
Toggling pin 100000 times...
Took 1.432 seconds, 69818 updates/sec
Write / Read test, 100000 times...
Took 2.618 seconds, 76384 ops/sec
Setting output to 0
Verifying level... OK
Disabling output and monitoring input
Gave up waiting for the input to transition
Setting output to 1
Verifying level... OK
Disabling output and monitoring input
Input flipped after 0 cycles
Closing

FPGA

sudo mknod /dev/xdevcfg c 250 0
sudo -s
cat parallella.bit.bin > /dev/xdevcfg
exit

# programming time
cat /sys/devices/amba.1/f8007000.devcfg/prog_done


/sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:device0/in_temp0_raw
/sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:device0/in_temp0_offset
/sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:device0/in_temp0_scale

T = ((in_temp0_raw + in_temp0_offset) * in_temp0_scale) / 1000)

script:

#!/bin/bash
raw=`cat /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:device0/in_temp0_raw`
offset=`cat /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:device0/in_temp0_offset`
scale=`cat /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:device0/in_temp0_scale`

c_temp=`echo "scale=1;(($raw + $offset) * $scale) / 1000" | bc`
f_temp=`echo "scale=1;(($c_temp * 9) / 5) + 32" | bc`

echo
echo "Zynq Temp: $c_temp C / $f_temp F"
echo

Modified to display temperature in loop: temp.sh

headless stream

http://forums.parallella.org/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=1213

removed html traces from device tree

serial

hardware

software

device tree

sudo apt-get install device-tree-compiler

# Compiling a device tree blob from source (.dts-->.dtb):
dtc -I dts -O dtb -o devicetree.dtb zynq-parallella1-headless.dts

# To get source from compiled device tree (.dtb-->.dts):
dtc -I dtb -O dts -o devicetree.dts devicetree.dtb

/dev

see how to modify devicetree at http://elinux.org/Parallella_Speed_Up_Ubuntu

Debian

http://elinux.org/Parallella_Debian

Epiphany