[PATCH v3] doc/raspberrypi: Added instructions for raspberrypi

G S Niteesh gsnb.gn at gmail.com
Sun Jan 12 18:47:20 UTC 2020


Added instructions to run examples on raspberrypi.
---
 user/bsps/arm/raspberrypi.rst | 85 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 84 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/user/bsps/arm/raspberrypi.rst b/user/bsps/arm/raspberrypi.rst
index 4ef75bd..8e4b38c 100644
--- a/user/bsps/arm/raspberrypi.rst
+++ b/user/bsps/arm/raspberrypi.rst
@@ -5,4 +5,87 @@
 raspberrypi
 ===========
 
-TODO.
+This BSP supports `Raspberry Pi 1` and `Raspberry Pi 2` currently.
+The support for `Raspberry Pi 3` is work under progress.
+The default bootloader on the Raspberry Pi which is used to boot Raspbian
+or other OS can be also used to boot RTEMS. U-boot can also be used.
+
+Setup SD card
+----------------
+
+The Raspberry Pis have an unconventional booting mechanism. The GPU
+boots first, initializes itself, runs the bootloader and starts the CPU.
+The bootloader looks for a kernel image, by default the kernel images must
+have a name of the form ``kernel*.img`` but this can be changed by adding
+`kernel=<img_name>` to ``config.txt``.
+
+You must provide the required files for the GPU to proceed. These files
+can be downloaded from
+`the Raspberry Pi Firmware Repository <https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/tree/master/boot>`_.
+You can remove the ``kernel*.img`` files if you want too, but don't touch the other files.
+
+Copy these files in to a SD card with FAT filesystem.
+
+Kernel image
+------------
+
+The following steps show how to run ``hello.exe`` on a Raspberry Pi 2.
+The same instructions can be applied to Raspberry Pi 1 also.
+Other executables can be processed in a similar way.
+
+To create the kernel image:
+
+.. code-block:: none
+
+     arm-rtems5-objcopy -Obinary hello.exe kernel.img
+
+Copy the kernel image to the SD card.
+
+Make sure you have these lines below, in your ``config.txt``.
+
+.. code-block:: none
+
+     enable-uart=1
+     kernel_address=0x200000
+     kernel=kernel.img
+
+Testing using QEMU
+------------------
+
+QEMU can be built using RSB. Navigate to ``<SOURCE_BUILDER_DIR>/rtems``
+and run this command.
+
+.. code-block:: none
+
+     ../source-builder/sb-set-builder --prefix=<TOOLCHAIN_DIR> devel/qemu4.bset
+
+**Note**: Replace ``<SOURCE_BUILDER_DIR>`` and ``<TOOLCHAIN_DIR>`` with the correct
+path of the directories. For example, if you used quick-start section as your reference, these
+two will be ``$HOME/quick-start/src/rsb`` and ``$HOME/quick-start/rtems/5`` respectively,
+
+QEMU along with GDB can be used for debugging, but it only supports
+Raspberry Pi 2 and the emulation is also incomplete. So some of the
+features might not work as expected.
+
+Make sure your version of QEMU > v2.6, because older ones don't support
+Raspberry Pi's.
+
+.. code-block:: none
+
+     qemu-system-arm -M raspi2 -m 1G -kernel hello.exe -serial mon:stdio -nographic -S -s
+
+This starts QEMU and creates a socket at port ``localhost:1234`` for GDB to
+connect.
+
+In a new terminal, run GDB using
+
+.. code-block:: none
+
+     arm-rtems5-gdb hello.exe
+     tar remote:1234
+     load
+
+This will connect GDB to QEMU and will load the application.
+
+**Note**: Add ``set scheduler-locking on`` in GDB if you have any issues
+running the examples.
-- 
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