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PATCH Superseded Alexey Brodkin 2 participants 3 messages Aug 4, 2015 – Aug 5, 2015

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PATCH v2 1/1 board: add support for ARC AXS101 and AXS103 Software Development Platforms

The AXS10x Platform consists of a DesignWare AXC001 CPU
Card (with ARC 770D core) in case of AXS101 or AXC003 CPU Card (typically with ARC HS38 core) in case of AXS103 mounted on an ARC Software Development Platform Mainboard with DesignWare peripherals:
* SD/MMC contoller
* Gigabit network contoller
* Serial ports (8250-compatible)
* USB 2.0
* SPI
* I2C

It also houses HDMI output for external monitor connection.

For stand-alone usage of the board (with only keyboard, mouse and montor attached) kernel console and getty made available on tty0 as well as on serial port (ttyS3).

Note there're 2 prerequisites:
[1] u-boot: 2015.07 - fix creation of .config

     http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/502558/

[2] binutils: fix buildng of Linux kernel for ARCv2 ISA

     http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/503550/
Cc Thomas Petazzoni <[email protected]>
Cc Gustavo Zacarias <[email protected]>

---

Changes in v2:
[1] Clean-up of /etc/inittab so it matches Buildroot's default with only changes
a) addition of getty on tty0
b) use default serial console instead of hard-coded ttyS0

[2] Rework of defconfigs
a) Beautify congifs with comments and spaces between sections
b) Explicitly specify Linux kernel and headers versions so build results are reproducible.

 board/synopsys/axs10x/fs-overlay/etc/inittab | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 configs/snps_axs101_defconfig                | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++
 configs/snps_axs103_defconfig                | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 95 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 board/synopsys/axs10x/fs-overlay/etc/inittab
 create mode 100644 configs/snps_axs101_defconfig
 create mode 100644 configs/snps_axs103_defconfig
board/synopsys/axs10x/fs-overlay/etc/inittab new file +38 -0
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..43bacc6
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+# /etc/inittab
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2001 Erik Andersen <[email protected]>
+#
+# Note: BusyBox init doesn't support runlevels.  The runlevels field is
+# completely ignored by BusyBox init. If you want runlevels, use
+# sysvinit.
+#
+# Format for each entry: <id>:<runlevels>:<action>:<process>
+#
+# id        == tty to run on, or empty for /dev/console
+# runlevels == ignored
+# action    == one of sysinit, respawn, askfirst, wait, and once
+# process   == program to run
+
+# Startup the system
+null::sysinit:/bin/mount -t proc proc /proc
+null::sysinit:/bin/mount -o remount,rw /
+null::sysinit:/bin/mkdir -p /dev/pts
+null::sysinit:/bin/mkdir -p /dev/shm
+null::sysinit:/bin/mount -a
+null::sysinit:/bin/hostname -F /etc/hostname
+# now run any rc scripts
+::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS
+
+# /sbin/getty invocation for tty0
+tty0::respawn:/sbin/getty 115200 tty0
+
+# Put a getty on the serial port
+console::respawn:/sbin/getty -L console 0 vt100
+
+# Stuff to do for the 3-finger salute
+::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/reboot
+
+# Stuff to do before rebooting
+::shutdown:/etc/init.d/rcK
+::shutdown:/sbin/swapoff -a
+::shutdown:/bin/umount -a -r
configs/snps_axs101_defconfig new file +28 -0
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9755756
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+# Architecture
+BR2_arcle=y
+
+# System
+BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_HOSTNAME="axs101"
+BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_ISSUE="Welcome to the ARC Software Development Platform"
+BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_INITRAMFS=y
+BR2_SYSTEM_DHCP="eth0"
+BR2_ROOTFS_OVERLAY="board/synopsys/axs10x/fs-overlay"
+
+# Headers
+BR2_KERNEL_HEADERS_VERSION=y
+BR2_DEFAULT_KERNEL_VERSION="4.1"
+BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_LINUX_HEADERS_CUSTOM_4_1=y
+
+# Kernel
+BR2_LINUX_KERNEL=y
+BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_VERSION=y
+BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_VERSION_VALUE="4.2-rc5"
+BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_DEFCONFIG="axs101"
+
+# Bootloader
+BR2_TARGET_UBOOT=y
+BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_BUILD_SYSTEM_KCONFIG=y
+BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_CUSTOM_VERSION=y
+BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_CUSTOM_VERSION_VALUE="2015.07"
+BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_BOARD_DEFCONFIG="axs101"
+
configs/snps_axs103_defconfig new file +29 -0
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f68718e
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+# Architecture
+BR2_arcle=y
+BR2_archs38=y
+
+# System
+BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_HOSTNAME="axs103"
+BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_ISSUE="Welcome to the ARC Software Development Platform"
+BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_INITRAMFS=y
+BR2_SYSTEM_DHCP="eth0"
+BR2_ROOTFS_OVERLAY="board/synopsys/axs10x/fs-overlay"
+
+# Headers
+BR2_KERNEL_HEADERS_VERSION=y
+BR2_DEFAULT_KERNEL_VERSION="4.1"
+BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_LINUX_HEADERS_CUSTOM_4_1=y
+
+# Kernel
+BR2_LINUX_KERNEL=y
+BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_VERSION=y
+BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_VERSION_VALUE="4.2-rc5"
+BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_DEFCONFIG="axs103_smp"
+
+# Bootloader
+BR2_TARGET_UBOOT=y
+BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_BUILD_SYSTEM_KCONFIG=y
+BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_CUSTOM_VERSION=y
+BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_CUSTOM_VERSION_VALUE="2015.07"
+BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_BOARD_DEFCONFIG="axs103"
+
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PATCH v2 1/1 board: add support for ARC AXS101 and AXS103 Software Development Platforms

Dear Alexey Brodkin,

Quoted 21 lines · Alexey Brodkin

The AXS10x Platform consists of a DesignWare AXC001 CPU
Card (with ARC 770D core) in case of AXS101 or AXC003 CPU Card (typically with ARC HS38 core) in case of AXS103 mounted on an ARC Software Development Platform Mainboard with DesignWare peripherals:
* SD/MMC contoller
* Gigabit network contoller
* Serial ports (8250-compatible)
* USB 2.0
* SPI
* I2C

It also houses HDMI output for external monitor connection.

For stand-alone usage of the board (with only keyboard, mouse and montor attached) kernel console and getty made available on tty0 as well as on serial port (ttyS3).

Note there're 2 prerequisites:
[1] u-boot: 2015.07 - fix creation of .config

     http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/502558/
Quoted 7 lines

[2] binutils: fix buildng of Linux kernel for ARCv2 ISA

     http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/503550/
Cc Thomas Petazzoni <[email protected]>
Cc Gustavo Zacarias <[email protected]>

---

Applied, thanks. For defconfigs, we generally like to have a readme.txt file in board/<something>/ that explains how to flash/use the generated system on the HW. But that's of course only if special instructions are needed.

Thanks!

Thomas

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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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PATCH v2 1/1 board: add support for ARC AXS101 and AXS103 Software Development Platforms

Hi Thomas,

Quoted 32 lines · Thomas Petazzoni

Dear Alexey Brodkin,

Quoted 21 lines · Alexey Brodkin

The AXS10x Platform consists of a DesignWare AXC001 CPU
Card (with ARC 770D core) in case of AXS101 or AXC003 CPU Card (typically with ARC HS38 core) in case of AXS103 mounted on an ARC Software Development Platform Mainboard with DesignWare peripherals:
* SD/MMC contoller
* Gigabit network contoller
* Serial ports (8250-compatible)
* USB 2.0
* SPI
* I2C

It also houses HDMI output for external monitor connection.

For stand-alone usage of the board (with only keyboard, mouse and montor attached) kernel console and getty made available on tty0 as well as on serial port (ttyS3).

Note there're 2 prerequisites:
[1] u-boot: 2015.07 - fix creation of .config

     http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/502558/
Quoted 7 lines

[2] binutils: fix buildng of Linux kernel for ARCv2 ISA

     http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/503550/
Cc Thomas Petazzoni <[email protected]>
Cc Gustavo Zacarias <[email protected]>

---

Quoted 4 lines

Applied, thanks. For defconfigs, we generally like to have a readme.txt file in board/<something>/ that explains how to flash/use the generated system on the HW. But that's of course only if special instructions are needed.

Thanks for that.

I will send instructions shortly (probably in few days) because do have some things to mention on how to use that board with generated files.

Also note I mentioned another prerequisite:
----------->8----------
u-boot: 2015.07 - fix creation of .config
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/502558/
----------->8----------
without which snps_axs103_defconfig will fail to build U-Boot.

I'm wondering if you saw my recent comments for that patch, probably we may want to revisit it sometime soon.

-Alexey