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NAME="ATLAS">MIPS/MIPS32(CoreLV 4Kc)+MIPS64(CoreLV 5Kc) Atlas Board</H1
><DIV
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><H2
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><A
NAME="AEN6659">Overview</H2
><P
>RedBoot supports the DgbSer
serial port and the built in ethernet port for communication and downloads.
The default serial port settings are 115200,8,N,1. RedBoot runs from and supports
flash management for the system flash region.</P
><P
>The following RedBoot configurations are supported:
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>Configuration</TH
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>Mode</TH
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>Description</TH
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>ROM</TD
><TD
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>[ROM]</TD
><TD
ALIGN="LEFT"
VALIGN="TOP"
>RedBoot running from the board's flash boot
sector.</TD
><TD
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>redboot_ROM.ecm</TD
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>RAM</TD
><TD
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>[RAM]</TD
><TD
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>RedBoot running from RAM with RedBoot in the
flash boot sector.</TD
><TD
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VALIGN="TOP"
>redboot_RAM.ecm</TD
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><P
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><DIV
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><H2
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><A
NAME="AEN6688">Initial Installation</H2
><P
>RedBoot is installed using the code download facility built into the
Atlas board. See the Atlas User manual for details, and also the Atlas download
format in <A
HREF="atlas.html#ATLAS-DOWNLOAD-FORMAT"
>the Section called <I
>Atlas download format</I
></A
>.</P
><DIV
CLASS="SECT3"
><H3
CLASS="SECT3"
><A
NAME="AEN6692">Quick download instructions</H3
><P
>Here are quick start instructions for downloading the prebuilt RedBoot
image.</P
><P
></P
><OL
TYPE="1"
><LI
><P
>Locate the prebuilt files in the bin directory: <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>deleteall.dl</TT
> and <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>redboot.dl</TT
>.</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Make sure switch S1-1 is OFF and switch S5-1 is ON. Reset
the board and verify that the LED display reads <TT
CLASS="COMPUTEROUTPUT"
>Flash DL</TT
>.</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Make sure your parallel port is connected to the 1284 port
Of the Atlas board. </P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Send the <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>deleteall.dl</TT
> file to the
parallel port to erase previous images:
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><TR
><TD
><PRE
CLASS="SCREEN"
>$ <TT
CLASS="USERINPUT"
><B
>cat deleteall.dl >/dev/lp0</B
></TT
></PRE
></TD
></TR
></TABLE
>
When this is complete, the LED display should read
<TT
CLASS="COMPUTEROUTPUT"
>Deleted</TT
>.</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Send the ROM mode RedBoot image to the board:
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><TR
><TD
><PRE
CLASS="SCREEN"
>$ <TT
CLASS="USERINPUT"
><B
>cat redboot.dl >/dev/lp0</B
></TT
></PRE
></TD
></TR
></TABLE
>
When this is complete, the LED display should show the last
address programmed. This will be something like: <TT
CLASS="COMPUTEROUTPUT"
>1fc17000</TT
>. </P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Change switch S5-1 to OFF and reset the board. The LED display
should read <TT
CLASS="COMPUTEROUTPUT"
>RedBoot</TT
>. </P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Run the RedBoot <B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>fis init</B
>
and <B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>fconfig</B
> commands to initialize the flash.
See <A
HREF="atlas.html#ATLAS-ADDITIONAL-FCONFIG-OPTIONS"
>the Section called <I
>Additional config options</I
></A
>, <A
HREF="flash-image-system.html"
>the Section called <I
>Flash Image System (FIS)</I
> in Chapter 2</A
>
and <A
HREF="persistent-state-flash.html"
>the Section called <I
>Persistent State Flash-based Configuration and Control</I
> in Chapter 2</A
> for details. </P
></LI
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><H3
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><A
NAME="ATLAS-DOWNLOAD-FORMAT">Atlas download format</H3
><P
>In order to download RedBoot to the Atlas board, it must be converted
to the Atlas download format. There are different ways of doing this depending
on which version of the developer's kit is shipped with the board. </P
><P
>The <I
CLASS="CITETITLE"
>Atlas Developer's Kit</I
> CD contains an <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>srec2flash</SPAN
> utility. The source code for this utility is part
of the <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>yamon/yamon-src-01.01.tar.gz</TT
> tarball
on the Dev Kit CD. The path in the expanded tarball is <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>yamon/bin/tools</TT
>. To use
<SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>srec2flash</SPAN
> to convert the S-record file:
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><PRE
CLASS="SCREEN"
>$ <TT
CLASS="USERINPUT"
><B
>srec2flash -EL -S29 redboot.srec >redboot.dl</B
></TT
></PRE
></TD
></TR
></TABLE
>
The <I
CLASS="CITETITLE"
>Atlas/Malta Developer's Kit</I
> CD
contains an <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>srecconv.pl</SPAN
> utility which requires
Perl. This utilty is part of the <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>yamon/yamon-src-02.00.tar.gz</TT
>
tarball on the Dev Kit CD. The path in the expanded tarball
is <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>yamon/bin/tools</TT
>. To use <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>srecconv</SPAN
> to convert the S-record file:
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><PRE
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>$ <TT
CLASS="USERINPUT"
><B
>cp redboot_ROM.srec redboot_ROM.rec</B
></TT
>
$ <TT
CLASS="USERINPUT"
><B
>srecconv.pl -ES L -A 29 redboot_ROM</B
></TT
></PRE
></TD
></TR
></TABLE
>
The resulting file is named <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>redboot_ROM.fl</TT
>.</P
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><H2
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><A
NAME="AEN6746">Flash management</H2
><DIV
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><H3
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><A
NAME="ATLAS-ADDITIONAL-FCONFIG-OPTIONS">Additional config options</H3
><P
>The ethernet MAC address is stored in flash manually using the <B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>fconfig</B
> command. You can use the YAMON <B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>setenv
ethaddr</B
> command to print out the board ethernet address.
Typically, it is: <TABLE
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><PRE
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>00:0d:a0:00:<TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>xx:xx</I
></TT
></PRE
></TD
></TR
></TABLE
> where
<TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>xx.xx</I
></TT
> is the hex representation of the
board serial number.</P
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><H2
CLASS="SECT2"
><A
NAME="AEN6756">Additional commands</H2
><P
>The <B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>exec</B
> command which allows the
loading and execution of Linux kernels, is supported for this architecture
(see <A
HREF="executing-programs.html"
>the Section called <I
>Executing Programs from RedBoot</I
> in Chapter 2</A
>). The
<B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>exec</B
> parameters used for MIPS boards are:</P
><P
></P
><DIV
CLASS="VARIABLELIST"
><DL
><DT
>-b <TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
><addr></I
></TT
></DT
><DD
><P
>Location to store command line and environment passed to kernel</P
></DD
><DT
>-w <TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
><time></I
></TT
></DT
><DD
><P
>Wait time in seconds before starting kernel</P
></DD
><DT
>-c <TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>"params"</I
></TT
></DT
><DD
><P
>Parameters passed to kernel</P
></DD
><DT
><TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
><addr></I
></TT
></DT
><DD
><P
>Kernel entry point, defaulting to the entry point of the last image
loaded</P
></DD
></DL
></DIV
><P
>Linux kernels on MIPS platforms expect the entry point to be called with arguments
in the registers equivalent to a C call with prototype:
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><PRE
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>void Linux(int argc, char **argv, char **envp);</PRE
></TD
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></TABLE
></P
><P
>RedBoot will place the appropriate data at the offset specified by the
<TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>-b</I
></TT
> parameter, or by default at address 0x80080000, and will set the
arguments accordingly when calling into the kernel.</P
><P
>The default entry point, if no image with explicit entry point has been loaded and
none is specified, is 0x80000750.</P
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="SECT2"
><H2
CLASS="SECT2"
><A
NAME="AEN6788">Interrupts</H2
><P
>RedBoot uses an interrupt vector table which is located at address 0x80000400.
Entries in this table are pointers to functions with this protoype: <TABLE
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><TR
><TD
><PRE
CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
>int irq_handler( unsigned vector, unsigned data )</PRE
></TD
></TR
></TABLE
>On an atlas
board, the vector argument is one of 25 interrupts defined in <TT
CLASS="COMPUTEROUTPUT"
>hal/mips/atlas/<TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>VERSION</I
></TT
>/include/plf_intr.h</TT
>: <TABLE
BORDER="5"
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WIDTH="70%"
><TR
><TD
><PRE
CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
>#define CYGNUM_HAL_INTERRUPT_SER 0
#define CYGNUM_HAL_INTERRUPT_TIM0 1
#define CYGNUM_HAL_INTERRUPT_2 2
#define CYGNUM_HAL_INTERRUPT_3 3
#define CYGNUM_HAL_INTERRUPT_RTC 4
#define CYGNUM_HAL_INTERRUPT_COREHI 5
#define CYGNUM_HAL_INTERRUPT_CORELO 6
#define CYGNUM_HAL_INTERRUPT_7 7
#define CYGNUM_HAL_INTERRUPT_PCIA 8
#define CYGNUM_HAL_INTERRUPT_PCIB 9
#define CYGNUM_HAL_INTERRUPT_PCIC 10
#define CYGNUM_HAL_INTERRUPT_PCID 11
#define CYGNUM_HAL_INTERRUPT_ENUM 12
#define CYGNUM_HAL_INTERRUPT_DEG 13
#define CYGNUM_HAL_INTERRUPT_ATXFAIL 14
#define CYGNUM_HAL_INTERRUPT_INTA 15
#define CYGNUM_HAL_INTERRUPT_INTB 16
#define CYGNUM_HAL_INTERRUPT_INTC 17
#define CYGNUM_HAL_INTERRUPT_INTD 18
#define CYGNUM_HAL_INTERRUPT_SERR 19
#define CYGNUM_HAL_INTERRUPT_HW1 20
#define CYGNUM_HAL_INTERRUPT_HW2 21
#define CYGNUM_HAL_INTERRUPT_HW3 22
#define CYGNUM_HAL_INTERRUPT_HW4 23
#define CYGNUM_HAL_INTERRUPT_HW5 24</PRE
></TD
></TR
></TABLE
>The data
passed to the ISR is pulled from a data table (<TT
CLASS="COMPUTEROUTPUT"
>hal_interrupt_data</TT
>) which immediately follows the interrupt vector table. With
25 interrupts, the data table starts at address 0x80000464 on atlas.</P
><P
>An application may create a normal C function with the above prototype
to be an ISR. Just poke its address into the table at the correct index and
enable the interrupt at its source. The return value of the ISR is ignored
by RedBoot. </P
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="SECT2"
><H2
CLASS="SECT2"
><A
NAME="AEN6797">Memory Maps</H2
><P
>Memory Maps RedBoot sets up the following memory map on the Atlas board.
<TABLE
BORDER="5"
BGCOLOR="#E0E0F0"
WIDTH="70%"
><TR
><TD
><PRE
CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
>Physical Address Range Description
----------------------- -------------
0x00000000 - 0x07ffffff SDRAM
0x08000000 - 0x17ffffff PCI Memory Space
0x18000000 - 0x1bdfffff PCI I/O Space
0x1be00000 - 0x1bffffff System Controller
0x1c000000 - 0x1dffffff System flash
0x1e000000 - 0x1e3fffff Monitor flash
0x1f000000 - 0x1fbfffff FPGA</PRE
></TD
></TR
></TABLE
></P
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="SECT2"
><H2
CLASS="SECT2"
><A
NAME="AEN6801">Rebuilding RedBoot</H2
><P
>These shell variables provide the platform-specific information
needed for building RedBoot according to the procedure described in
<A
HREF="rebuilding-redboot.html"
>Chapter 3</A
>:
<TABLE
BORDER="5"
BGCOLOR="#E0E0F0"
WIDTH="70%"
><TR
><TD
><PRE
CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
>export TARGET=atlas_mips32_4kc
export TARGET=atlas_mips64_5kc
export ARCH_DIR=mips
export PLATFORM_DIR=atlas</PRE
></TD
></TR
></TABLE
>
Use one of the TARGET settings only. </P
><P
>The names of configuration files are listed above with the
description of the associated modes.</P
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