Information Needed

Mon Sep 9 15:08:10 UTC 2013

On 9/9/2013 9:29 AM, Alan Cudmore wrote:
> Simon,
> In my experience, there is no single place to get all of the 
> information you need, especially for specific device driver 
> development. In addition, it has taken me a while to feel comfortable 
> navigating the RTEMS source tree and being able to quickly locate 
> BSPs, drivers, and libraries.
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RTEMS is a very large collection of software for a lot of hardware
combinations. I include a source tree walk through as part of
teaching the class.

My walk through has two sections -- one that is BSP and target
hardware INDEPENDENT-- and another that is BSP and target
hardware DEPENDENT.
> Here are the docs that I know of:
> Starting point: http://www.rtems.org/onlinedocs.html
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That's the main starting point and includes historical versions.
> Manuals for developing RTEMS applications:
> http://rtems.org/onlinedocs/doc-current/share/rtems/html/
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That is built twice a day off the git head.

In addition, the C library is newlib and the manual for the methods
in libc/libm are documented by that project.
> Doxygen for the cpukit ( but why is that directory called cpukit? )
> http://www.rtems.org/onlinedocs/doxygen/cpukit/html/
>
Well.. the other parts of the tree are thought of as  BSP Kit and tests.
But CVS didn't let us easily move things around. libcpu, libchip, and
libbsp are a "BSP Kit"

Everything in cpukit is supposed to be applicable to all BSPs and
not be dependent on any particular cpu mdoel.

Although it does include the Classic and POSIX APIs, the Doxygen is
probably best avoided unless you are curious about the internals of
RTEMS or modifying it. :)
the Doxygen is
> For the Raspberry Pi: I was hoping to start with the I2C driver 
> shortly. It seems there are two options:
> 1. A standalone I2C driver similar to the one in the arm/lpc32xx BSP:
> http://git.rtems.org/rtems/tree/c/src/lib/libbsp/arm/lpc32xx/misc/i2c.c
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> 2. A driver for libi2c similar to the one in the arm/lpc24xx BSP:
> http://git.rtems.org/rtems/tree/c/src/lib/libbsp/arm/lpc24xx/i2c
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> This readme file gives a pretty good overview of libi2c:
> http://git.rtems.org/rtems/tree/cpukit/libi2c/README_libi2c
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> I was going to start with a simple i2c driver for the Rpi, then try to 
> implement a libi2c driver when I had a little more experience with it.
>
> Same with the SPI/SD card access: I'm pretty sure I saw a good example 
> of using the SPI bus to access a SD card , but I can't find it right 
> now ( exactly your point! )
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> Also, here is another GPIO driver for the Raspberry Pi. I was able to 
> use this for reading button states and lighting multiple LEDs.
> https://github.com/pficheux/raspberry_pi
>
> But feel free to ask more questions: I would like to help with the I2c 
> implementation.
>
And this block of questions is a good example of why there is no single 
source
for all your RTEMS answers.  At some point, you need a board or chip 
manual. :)
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> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 5:20 AM, Simon Williams 
> <williamssimonp at gmail.com <mailto:williamssimonp at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     I have made some progress with the work I have been doing for the
>     Raspberry Pi, but I am finding that progress is being held up due
>     to lack of information about RTEMS.  Is there a repository of
>     information I am not aware of?
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>     I have a GPIO driver which allows me to have an RTEMS task that
>     switches an external LED on and off.  The is based on the
>     description of the discrete driver in the BSP and Device Driver
>     Development Guide, but that description is almost non-existent!
>      There also does not appear to be any sample implementation
>     anywhere.  I have one specific issue with my implementation, which
>     is that stat() does not return anything useful and so I have to
>     use the deprecated RTEMS specific call to get information about
>     the devices.  This leads me to believe that I have not got it
>     quite right!
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>     My next targets are I2C, followed by a driver to put the console
>     on an HD44780 compatible display and keyboard attached to the I2C
>     bus.  After that, I will be looking at an SD card filesystem and
>     other I2C devices I need for my application.  I would be extremely
>     grateful if anyone could point me towards some well documented
>     examples of these sort of drivers for other boards, I would be
>     grateful.  The problem with most of the examples I have found in
>     the repository is that any documentation that they contain assumes
>     that the reader has a good knowledge of RTEMS and it's
>     requirements and it is that knowledge that I am trying to gain!
>
>     I would also be interested to know if there is any documentation I
>     have not been able to find on using the C++ class library as my
>     application level code will be written in C++.
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>     Thanks in advance for your help.
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