Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 00:48:29 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely7.cicely.de> To: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@me.com> Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PRU on BBB Message-ID: <20141025224829.GC34989@cicely7.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <5E3FBBA8-2CBB-4BCE-BE2C-FB044CF0BEF6@me.com> References: <544BA593.4020706@freenet.de> <5E3FBBA8-2CBB-4BCE-BE2C-FB044CF0BEF6@me.com>
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On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 09:32:09AM -0700, Rui Paulo wrote: > On Oct 25, 2014, at 06:28, Manuel Stühn <freebsdnewbie@freenet.de> wrote: > > > > Hello list, > > > > I'm a great fan of FreeBSD and was very glad to see, that FreeBSD supports the beaglebone black. Even the PRUs, which I want to put into operation, are supported by FreeBSD. But unfortunately i do not have a clue, how the driver is intended to be used. For linux there is some API/docu to load/start/stop and communicate with the PRU. > > > > Did anyone put the PRUs already into operation with FreeBSD and could give me a hint how this is done? > > There's a work in progress PRU library: > > https://bitbucket.org/rpaulo/libpru > > And a program to upload binaries to the PRU: > > https://bitbucket.org/rpaulo/pructl > > These don't have documentation yet and you have to build them yourself, but that should be straightforward. > > You can use the assembler from ports: devel/pasm. We have PRU supprt? That's awesome. Had been interested in PRU, but not even dreamed about existing support. -- B.Walter <bernd@bwct.de> http://www.bwct.de Modbus/TCP Ethernet I/O Baugruppen, ARM basierte FreeBSD Rechner uvm.
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