Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Detlef Vermeulen <[email protected]> · Fri, 12 Mar 1999 15:36:52 +0100

Hi Andy,
    we run 2300 boards, but I assume they are similar to the 2700. I further assume
you have vxWorks set up on
your system. So here's what I have done:

  - in the bsp directory
    $ make bootrom_uncmp
    $ elfToBin < bootrom_uncmp > mv2300.boot

  - copy mv2300.boot to the /tftpboot directory. ( tftp deamon must be running )
  - the mv2300 board comes with two flash memory banks A and B switchable through
jumper J15.
    Factory setting is bank A ( pins 1 and 2  are jumpered ). Both banks come with
Motorola's PPCBug loaded.
    Jumper pin 2 and 3 to select bank B. Power up the crate.

    -  set the time  ( necessary: in my case it didn't work without)
      ( following a log of a session, input is in brackets )

      PPC1-Bug>  <set 0115991705>             # FRI JAN 15 17:05:00.00 1999

    -  run niot to configure the network , e.g.

      PPC1-Bug> <niot>
      Controller LUN =00?
      Device LUN     =00?
      Node Control Memory Address =01F9E000?
      Client IP Address      =0.0.0.0?  <129.129.10.23>
      Server IP Address      =0.0.0.0?  <129.129.40.123>
      Subnet IP Address Mask =255.255.255.0? <255.255.0.0>
      Broadcast IP Address   =255.255.255.255? <129.129.0.0>
      Gateway IP Address     =0.0.0.0? <129.129.100.2>
      Boot File Name ("NULL" for None)     =?  <mv2300.boot>
      Argument File Name ("NULL" for None) =?
      Boot File Load Address         =001F0000?
      Boot File Execution Address    =001F0000?
      Boot File Execution Delay      =00000000?
      Boot File Length               =00000000?
      Boot File Byte Offset          =00000000?
      BOOTP/RARP Request Retry       =00?
      TFTP/ARP Request Retry         =00?
      Trace Character Buffer Address =00000000?
      BOOTP/RARP Request Control: Always/When-Needed (A/W)=W?
      BOOTP/RARP Reply Update Control: Yes/No (Y/N)       =Y?

      Update Non-Volatile RAM (Y/N)?  <y>

      PPC1-Bug>

    -  run niop to download mv2300.boot

      PPC1-Bug>  <niop>
      Controller LUN =00?
      Device LUN     =00?
      Get/Put        =G?
      File Name      =?  <mv2300.boot>
      Memory Address =00004000?
      Length         =00000000?
      Byte Offset    =00000000?

      Bytes Received =&358812, Bytes Loaded =&358812
      Bytes/Second   =&89703, Elapsed Time =4 Second(s)

  -    load mv2300.boot into memory bank A:

      PPC1-Bug>pflash 4000:100000 ff000100
      Source Starting/Ending Addresses      =00004000/01003FFF
      Destination Starting/Ending Addresses =FF000100/000000FF
      Number of Effective Bytes             =01000000 (&16777216)

      Program FLASH Memory (Y/N)?   <y>
      FLASH Memory Programming Complete
      PPC1-Bug>

   -   power down the create and rejumper J15 to memory bank A. Repower the crate and
       the vxWorks prompt should pop up.

   -  finally set up the nvram to  boot the vxworks system image.

      processor number   : 0
      host name              : pc1784
      file name                : /home/ioc/ioc001/vxWorks
      inet on ethernet (e)  : 129.129.10.1
      host inet (h)            : 129.129.77.34
      user (u)                  : ioc
      flags (f)                  : 0x0
      target name (tn)      : ioc001
      startup script (s)      : startup.script

Cheers,
Detlef

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        Detlef Vermeulen                     phone: +41 56 310 3620
        Paul Scherrer Institute              fax:   +41 56 310 4413
        SLS Computing & Controls             mailto: [email protected]
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Andy Foster wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> Does anyone have a prescription to set up the
> booting of an mvme2700 from PPCBug using the tftp
> network protocol?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andy
>
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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