EVMC6424 Ethernet is not running.

sinan lezgioglu

Other Parts Discussed in Thread: SYSBIOS, TMS320C6747, OMAP-L137, OMAPL138

Although we have worked in a short period as 3 months we could solve compile errors etc... but we never able to run ethernet part of TMS32C6424 board.

We have read many article from TI website , but any of them never worked. If you make a simple project and test you will see it will not work.

For example

File->New->CCS Project;

Project Name = Test11

Family = C6000

Variant = EVMC6424

Cannection = Spectrum Digital DSK-EVM-eZdsp onboard USB Emulator

Project templates and examples->SYS/BIOS->Typical->Next->(NDK|SYS/BIOS)

Platform = ti.platforms.evm6424

app.cfg -> NDK -> (Global Network Setting|DHCP CLIENT|IP|EMAC)

->DEBUG

(-|- mark are the ones that i choosed)

When you make above process, while compiling it will not get an ip, it must get automatically. We run EVM6424_init(); command in main.c and them make board ready. We have tried many things in sample codes.

Our System Features;

CCS 5.5

NDK 2.22.3.20

SYS/BIOS 6.35.4.50

XDCtools 3.25.4.88

over 9 years ago

0 Titusrathinaraj Stalin over 9 years ago

TI__Guru** 116100 points

Hi Sinan,

I'm not able to understand your language, I have translated your texts and I think that you have problem on running ethernet code on C6424 (NDK),

Is this your custom board or TI EVM board ?

What error are you getting while you running the code ?

0 sinan lezgioglu over 9 years ago in reply to Titusrathinaraj Stalin

Intellectual 300 points

Although we have worked in a short period as 3 months we could solve compile errors etc... but we never able to run ethernet part of TMS32C6424 board.

We have read many article from TI website , but any of them never worked. If you make a simple project and test you will see it will not work.

For example

File->New->CCS Project;

Project Name = Test11

Family = C6000

Variant = EVMC6424

Cannection = Spectrum Digital DSK-EVM-eZdsp onboard USB Emulator

Project templates and examples->SYS/BIOS->Typical->Next->(NDK|SYS/BIOS)

Platform = ti.platforms.evm6424

app.cfg -> NDK -> (Global Network Setting|DHCP CLIENT|IP|EMAC)

->DEBUG

(-|- mark are the ones that i choosed)

Our System Features;

CCS 5.5

NDK 2.22.3.20

SYS/BIOS 6.35.4.50

XDCtools 3.25.4.88

0 Sivaraj Kuppuraj over 9 years ago in reply to sinan lezgioglu

TI__Mastermind 35645 points

Hi,

Thanks for your post.

We do not have an NSP package especially for C6424. However, we do have a package for DM6437 which they can be safely used for C6424 too. C6424 and DM6437 are the same to the best of my knowledge, just the part number difference. So, you can start by using DM6437 package from NDK 2.0.

The NDK 2.0 has one major change from NDK 1.92, i.e. the interface between the NDK stack and the ethernet driver has been changed now. Previously, in NDK 1.92 this interface used "LL Packet driver architecture" and now in NDK 2.0 all packages use the "NIMU Architecture". This has been well documented in NDK 2.0. So, when porting drivers/applications from 1.92 to 2.0, you need to be aware of this transitiion and port them to use NIMU. DM6437 examples and drivers have already been ported to NIMU, so you can use this as an example.

You can try ethernet example code is available in the “Network Client” (client.pjt) project and can be found at: NDK_INSTALL_DIR\packages\ti\ndk\example\network\client\<platform_name>\client.pjt

Do you get any chance to try client example project attached to this post which is from 1.92 NDK for c6424 EVM? Can you download client.zip file attached & try the example project?

4760.client.zip

You could also check the below wiki link for NDK 2.x releases and NDK EMAC drivers for C6424 from BIOS PSP package which you could add support to it.

http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php?title=Network_Developers_Kit_Licensing_and_Availability#NDK_2.x

Thanks & regards,

Sivaraj K

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0 Mesut Alt over 9 years ago in reply to Sivaraj Kuppuraj

Prodigy 70 points

When I load the sample project without compiling it works. I receive many errors after I "clean" the project and compile. Besides this is a sample project of DSP/BIOS. Don't we have the chance to make the ethernet work using SYS/BIOS with the app.cfg.

3755.test_eth_mes1.rar

0 Titusrathinaraj Stalin over 9 years ago in reply to Mesut Alt

TI__Guru** 116100 points

Hi Mesut,

I think, we have released ethernet drivers in DSPBIOS for C6424.

http://downloads.ti.com/dsps/dsps_registered_sw/sdo_sb/targetcontent/psp/bios_psp/index.html

When I load the sample project without compiling it works. I receive many errors after I "clean" the project and compile.

Which error are you getting after clean and rebuild ?

Have you set the paths correctly as per your location of project?

What errors are you getting while you work with SYSBIOS ?

Is any run time error or compilation error ?

If any runtime error,

Are you able to get break point in "main()" function after load .out into DSP through emulator ?

Please elaborate your problem.

0 Titusrathinaraj Stalin over 9 years ago in reply to Titusrathinaraj Stalin

TI__Guru** 116100 points

Hi Mesut & Sinan,

Also, Please check out the below TI E2E thread.

http://e2e.ti.com/support/embedded/tirtos/f/355/t/41302.aspx

0 Mesut Alt over 9 years ago in reply to Titusrathinaraj Stalin

Prodigy 70 points

I made a video to explain better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p79tM14g48M

0 Titusrathinaraj Stalin over 9 years ago in reply to Mesut Alt

TI__Guru** 116100 points

Hi Mesut,

I have watched your video and your project attachments.

I don't see any PINMUX registers to enable RMII or MII, EMAC and MDIO driver implementation in your project.

I recommend to use Sivaraj attachment of client examples and try to understand the code.

NDK and .cfg configurations are not sufficient to ethernet make to work.

Please refer the "evmc6424init.c" file in client example.

TI released NDK ethernet code in DSPBIOS and not in SYSBIOS since it is a old processor I think.

0 sinan lezgioglu over 9 years ago in reply to Titusrathinaraj Stalin

Intellectual 300 points

I think we have a difficulty because we have selected an old type of processor.

So we have decided to move to OMAP-L13x.

For this reason we will order OMAP-L137/TMS320C6747 Floating Point Starter Kit.

Has TI released NDK ethernet code in SYSBIOS for this board?

Will we able to progress without any problem with this kit?

And what I did in the above video record would be sufficient to make it work or should I do extra things?

Best regards

0 Titusrathinaraj Stalin over 9 years ago in reply to sinan lezgioglu

TI__Guru** 116100 points

Hi Sinan,

Yes, We have NDK support with SYSBIOS for OMAPL13x (OMAPL137 and OMAPL138)

Please refer the following TI NDK package downloads and E2E threads.

http://e2e.ti.com/support/dsp/omap_applications_processors/f/42/t/321775.aspx

http://www.ti.com/tool/ndktcpip

http://software-dl.ti.com/dsps/dsps_public_sw/sdo_sb/targetcontent/ndk/index.html

http://e2e.ti.com/support/dsp/omap_applications_processors/f/42/t/61744.aspx

http://downloads.ti.com/dsps/dsps_registered_sw/sdo_sb/targetcontent/NDK/index.html

0 Mesut Alt over 9 years ago in reply to Titusrathinaraj Stalin

Prodigy 70 points

In the picture i sent which driver supports the EMAC. We do not want to fail as we did for the other EVM.

0 Titusrathinaraj Stalin over 9 years ago in reply to Mesut Alt

TI__Guru** 116100 points

Hi Mesut/Sinan,

I would like to suggest to upgrade/migrate the ethernet DSPBIOS project to SYSBIOS in Sivaraj attached code.

0 sinan lezgioglu over 9 years ago in reply to Titusrathinaraj Stalin

Intellectual 300 points

Could you please tell Sivaraj to upgrade the same project to SYSBIOS himself and send it to us. This will be our last request. When we tried it we got many errors. Please let us get over this problem.

0 Sivaraj Kuppuraj over 9 years ago in reply to sinan lezgioglu

TI__Mastermind 35645 points

Hi,

Actually, the attached example code in my previous post which would be compatible to customer's setup and i intend to give this for you to take that as a reference and customize the same as per your requirement. Also, upgrading the attached project to SYSBIOS is not in our scope.

We apologise for the same.

Thanks & regards,
Sivaraj K

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