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| Targeted Hardware | phyCORE-i.MX7, phyBOARD-Zeta i.MX7 |
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| Targeted Software | Cortex-M4: BSP FreeRTOS FSL iMX7 ALPHA1 Cortex-A7: BSP Yocto FSL iMX7 ALPHA2 |
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Running the Demo
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- SD card formated with sdcard image from ALPHA2 release. Instructions for formatting here
- Hardware set up as described in Getting Started section of Quickstart
- PEB-EVAL-02 module required. Demo uses LED1 and debug UART2 for the Cortex-M4
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- Download demo image from Artifactory Here and add to Boot partition of SD card.
- Insert SD card into microSD slot on the underside of the board. Connect a serial cable from UART2 RS232 DB-9 connector on the evaluation board to your host PC.
- In your preferred terminal software (such as Minicom or TeraTerm) on your host PC, configure an additional terminal for UART2 with 115200 baud, 8 data bits, no parity, and 1 stop bit (8n1) ,no handshake. Note that UART5 should be connected as well and is the debug UART for Cortex-A7)
- Set the boot switch located on the underside of the board to boot from SD (See quickstart for more info).
- Power on the board. Press the power button if board doesn't automatically boot.
- Press any key to stop autoboot and enter U-Boot.
In U-boot, edit the environment to boot imx7d-phyboard-zeta-m4.dtb. This DTS file configures memory allocation, enables rpmsg bus, and disables UART2 in Linux.
Code Block => editenv fdt_file edit: imx7d-phyboard-zeta-m4.dtb => saveenv => reset
In U-Boot, type the following to load the application image from the SD card to TCM, flush cached content, and start the M4 demo.
Code Block => fatload mmc 0:1 0x7F8000 rpmsg_gpio_toggle_freertos_example.bin => dcache flush => bootaux 0x7F8000
You should see the following appear in the serial terminal connected to UART2:
Code Block RPMSG GPIO Toggle FreeRTOS RTOS API Demo... Load module imx_rpmsg_tty in Linux to continue
Now boot Linux on the Cortex-A7.
Code Block => boot
Type root to log in, and then load the kernel module imx_rpmsg_tty which will configure RPMSG on the A7.
Code Block modprobe imx_rpmsg_tty
- You can now echo content to /dev/ttyRPMSG and it will be received by the M4 and printed on the FreeRTOS serial console.
In order to toggle LED1 on the evaluation board, echo "led1" to /dev/ttyRPMSG:
Code Block echo "led1" > /dev/ttyRPMSG
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See NXP's Getting Started Guide located at docat doc/Getting_Started_with_FreeRTOS_BSP_for_i.MX_7Dual.pdf for instructions on building the demo with ARM GCC or DS-5.
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