We program Freescale PowerPC Microcontrollers in 'C' language. Following structure declared by lower layer library is as follows: It...

We program Freescale PowerPC Microcontrollers in 'C' language. Following structure declared by lower layer library is as follows: It is instantiated by top layer application. A pointer to this structure is passed to lower layer library functions. typedef struct { /* Initialization Function */ void (*fc_init) (alg_work_t *work, alg_cfg_t *config); /* Main Function */ v...

I've been asked to write a couple of real-life up-and-running articles about working with the Xilinx PPC/Microblaze kit (ML403 board) consisting...

I've been asked to write a couple of real-life up-and-running articles about working with the Xilinx PPC/Microblaze kit (ML403 board) consisting of a meaty FPGA with PowerPC 405 hard core. I'll have a loaner kit with the option to buy. Has anyone here worked with this kit? The documentation is a bit vague about what exactly comes with the board, software-wise. Specifically: They talk about...

Is there a function that can be called in a Linux network device driver that can clear the ARP entries for a particular interface? I am running...

Is there a function that can be called in a Linux network device driver that can clear the ARP entries for a particular interface? I am running Linux 2.6.26 for powerpc.

I've recently upgraded a ppc405 build for a Virtex 4 device from kernel 2.6.15 (arch/ppc) to 2.6.31 (arch/powerpc) and the size of the image has...

I've recently upgraded a ppc405 build for a Virtex 4 device from kernel 2.6.15 (arch/ppc) to 2.6.31 (arch/powerpc) and the size of the image has increased from about 900k to 1.4M. As far as I can tell I've pretty much the same config options set. The 2.6.15 kernel was straight from the kernel mainline with some xilinx drivers hacked in, the .31 is straight from git.xilinx.com with nothing ...

Hi, When a company chooses a CPU to be embedded, why are the typical choices PowerPC, ARM etc... Why not something like an AMD Athlon. On...

Hi, When a company chooses a CPU to be embedded, why are the typical choices PowerPC, ARM etc... Why not something like an AMD Athlon. On a similar vein to AMD processors, they seem to have embedded processors and the general consumer processors, why the difference? Finally, getting hold of the general CPUs is not an issue they're available everywhere, but how can a hobbyist get hold of a ...

Hi, when using the powerpc-eabi-gdb debugger. To set breakpoints, gdb uses memory read and write commands to nondestructively replace a...

Hi, when using the powerpc-eabi-gdb debugger. To set breakpoints, gdb uses memory read and write commands to nondestructively replace a source instruction with a trap instruction. If you replace a source instruction, isn't the memory at that moment changing ? So are the memory locations in that case still correct ? Tom

Dear all, I am just curious to know why almost all commercial popular RTOS like RTLINUX,Vxworks work mainly on Micro processor instead...

Dear all, I am just curious to know why almost all commercial popular RTOS like RTLINUX,Vxworks work mainly on Micro processor instead of Microcontrollers? AFAIK,I have seen Vxworks work on Boards like Intel x86,powerpc,ARM and all mentioned processor boards instead of real microcontrollers like 8051,68HC series from motorola and so. Why do RTOS prefer microprocessors as compared to microco...

Hey Guys, I want to flash my MPC8343 Target (Freescale 8343 PowerPC by Embeddedplanet.com. I´m Using Windriver VisionClick and a Pobe JTAG to...

Hey Guys, I want to flash my MPC8343 Target (Freescale 8343 PowerPC by Embeddedplanet.com. I´m Using Windriver VisionClick and a Pobe JTAG to write U-Boot on my Target. So i connect the target and enter BKM Mode. Everytime i try to flash, the system answers " ERROR CANNOT LOAD ALGORITHM AT ADRESS XXXXXXXXX". So i tried some new adresses but it dosent work. i think i cant write into ram ...

I'm working on a project at work that requires a new controller, operating system, a network stack, and a myriad of services (ssh, telnet,...

I'm working on a project at work that requires a new controller, operating system, a network stack, and a myriad of services (ssh, telnet, web, etc...). My desires are as follows: * 200-600Mhz operation (e.g. PowerPC 440EP and ARM XScale) * Instruction cache desirable * As many GPIOs as possible * At least 1 I2C bus * Ethernet * At least 16Mb of externally addressable address space * SD...

I have been able to successfully force a 0x0300 Data Storage exception (write to a bad address) and a 0x0400 Instruction Storage...

I have been able to successfully force a 0x0300 Data Storage exception (write to a bad address) and a 0x0400 Instruction Storage exception. Any ideas for generating some of the other exceptions (excluding 0x0500 External interrupt which of course is the expected interrupt). This is for unit testing a module that traps these exceptions. Can a instruction simulator be used for this somehow?...

I work on PowerPC based Embedded Systems. Programming language is C. Cross compiler is Diab 4.2b. FYI, Windriver has purchased Diab. ...

I work on PowerPC based Embedded Systems. Programming language is C. Cross compiler is Diab 4.2b. FYI, Windriver has purchased Diab. Along with the compiler comes a utility called ddump. This utility has the following syntax. ddump [command] file I invoke this utility as follows: ddump -D filename.elf I believe .elf stands for executable linking format. Anyways, this command means ...

Hi, We are using Lite5200B eval board, out software is compiled using the Windriver diab 5.3.1.0 with the 5200B patch. We are using...

Hi, We are using Lite5200B eval board, out software is compiled using the Windriver diab 5.3.1.0 with the 5200B patch. We are using the WindRiver ICE for downloading the executable to the board and stepping through. We have our software with the MPC5200B running in default big endian mode. Because the PCI bus is little endian mode we are evaluating the impact on software if we switch th...

Hello, has anyone ever got this combination work on a native Linux box? Their Windows (cygwin) stuff on the other hand works very nicely. I...

Hello, has anyone ever got this combination work on a native Linux box? Their Windows (cygwin) stuff on the other hand works very nicely. I prepared an old Linux RedHat 9.0 (2.4.20 kernel) distribution (on the very same machine where the Windows version of ocdremote works perfectly), so that their proprietary driver "ravenpp" would compile. The kernel modul loads, but after I run: oc...

Hi, We want to decide about a development board for building Automotive Display Clusters(Dash Board) application. Few choices we have are:...

Hi, We want to decide about a development board for building Automotive Display Clusters(Dash Board) application. Few choices we have are: Freescales' Total5200 (PowerPc), Freescales' iMx35 series (Arm core), STMicroelectronics SPC560S60 (Arm Core). We have a prior experience working with PowerPcs. We would want to go for one which has the highest market usage in automotive industry fo...

[If you are trimming followups, please put your reply into comp.arch.embedded as I don't regularly read the other two NGs where I've posted...

[If you are trimming followups, please put your reply into comp.arch.embedded as I don't regularly read the other two NGs where I've posted this]. I'm looking for recommendations on a USB data capture pod or (ideally) a cheap audio input device that is known to have working driver support for 64-bit PowerPC Linux. At minimum I need to capture one 10- bit ADC channel at 22.1kHz; anything fr...

hello all, could someone give me a good link on a page that describes the x86 architecture main concepts and why it is so different from...

hello all, could someone give me a good link on a page that describes the x86 architecture main concepts and why it is so different from other architecture like ARM, PowerPC, alpha....? What are the main markets these architecture target to? If you also could give me a good link to these architectures too I would be really pleased. Thanks.

Hi, I am trying to boot linux-2.6.25 on mpc837x board using u-boot. but linux hangs with following message. Please help.. bootm...

Hi, I am trying to boot linux-2.6.25 on mpc837x board using u-boot. but linux hangs with following message. Please help.. bootm 0xfc100000 * kernel: cmdline image address = 0xfc100000 ## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at fc100000 ... Image Name: linux-2.6 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Multi-File Image (gzip compressed) Data Size: 2857358 Bytes = 2.7 MB Load ...

I am using PowerPC 55xx with GreenHills compiler. The following inline extended assembly code, asm("mftbl %[reg];" : [reg] "=r"(reg)); returns a...

I am using PowerPC 55xx with GreenHills compiler. The following inline extended assembly code, asm("mftbl %[reg];" : [reg] "=r"(reg)); returns a syntax error saying a ')' is missing. Now, I am wondering whether the GreenHills compiler does not support Extended Assembly. My intention is to copy the Time Base register value to a C variable and calculate the time elapsed. But, with the above metho...

I want to get a small pc104 powerpc board but most have no video or if they do it is in the form of a lcd output. So how am i suppose to output...

I want to get a small pc104 powerpc board but most have no video or if they do it is in the form of a lcd output. So how am i suppose to output the video to a crt screen. I have a special screen that is to my specs and i am forced to use it. It is a vga 640X480 60hz 16color screen and i just want to output some text from a small embedded board. So any suggestions like using a serial to vg...

I am trying to debug U-Boot using the BDI2000 and gdb. When I enter "c" for continue, I get "Program received signal SIGSTOP,...

I am trying to debug U-Boot using the BDI2000 and gdb. When I enter "c" for continue, I get "Program received signal SIGSTOP, Stopped (signal)." (see below) Does anyone know what causes this? Thank you. $ /opt/Embedix/tools/bin/powerpc-linux-gdb GNU gdb 5.1.1 Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are we...