This is the first of many weekly reports. I plan to post these every Sunday. They will give a rundown of what I’ve done during the week, list any problems I had, and what I plan to do the following week. I’ll be posting the reports both to the beagle-gsoc Google Group and to my blog.
As this is my first report, I’m including links to all of the project resources:
- Project Blog
- Source Code Repository (i2c branch)
- BeagleBoard.org Project Page
- Google Melange Project Page
- Project Overview Video
Completed this week:
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Rebased the skeleton code I had developed when writing my GSoC application.
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Extracted the clock configuration code from libgpio and put it into it’s own library, libclkconf. Merged.
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Used libclkconf to configure the clocks for i2c. I2C_REV is now readable on all buses on the BeagleBone Black and BeagleBoard-xM.
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Wrote code to configure the pins with libpadconf. Need to finish more of the driver to completely test this.
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Removed duplicate code in libpadconf. Merged.
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Implemented the i2c initialization procedure described in the TRM.
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Began work on a read function. It isn’t complete yet, but it can read the magic number and board name from the on board EEPROM on the BeagleBone Black. Screenshot.
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Setup netbooting and figured out how to transfer files with ZMODEM. This will improve my productivity a lot. Documented procedure on the project blog (netboot, serial transfer) and Minix wiki (netboot, serial transfer).
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Received a BeagleBoard-xM from TI. Thanks TI! Tried it out and made a blog post about running Minix on the BeagleBoard-xM. Will use it for developing/testing Minix i2c support for the dm37xx.
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Received a Welcome Package from Google. Thanks Google!
Issues / Concerns / Challenges:
- The files for the stage 1 bootloader and u-boot are downloaded from the Minix website when doing a fresh build of an SD card image. Once this week, the website was down for a few minutes and I couldn’t do a build. To prevent this from happening again, I setup a local mirror on my computer.
- Writing 2GB SD card images to the uSD card is time consuming. It takes about 7 minutes with my class 4 card. I’d prefer a much faster write, compile, test cycle. To overcome this issue, I setup a netboot environment and will use zmodem to transfer my changes (usually just 1 file).
Plan for next week:
- Clean up and finish the read function. Get it working on the BeagleBoard-xM as well.
- Implement the write function.
- Put some EEPROMs on a bread board and test reading and writing data on all of the buses to confirm proper pin configuration and test read/write functions.
- As time permits, begin implementing the /dev interface.
The timeline I originally submitted