Omap l138 and DVSDK installation problem

This is a screen shot of my terminal to show what happens.

Regards.

Harold Richemond

Are there any error message dialog boxes that pop up during the execution of the dvsdk_* installation?

There were no error message during the dvsdk installation. It seem that the installation is well and goes at the end with the pop up of en window telling that the installation is complete.

Thanks,

Harold

I had the same problem.  No error messages up to that point.

I was able to navigate to the ti-dvsdk_omapl138-evm_4_01_00_09 directory, and run setup.sh directly from there.

However, it only successfully went about halfway through before saying it couldn't find something, and failed.

Why is it failing?

Are you using the EVM, or the Experimenter?  I'm brand new to this chip (we're evaluating several platforms at the moment) and running into the same problem.  

The Experimenter Linux_StartHere/setup.htm walks me through installing CodeSourcery and using ...evm_xxx_setuplinux to install the dvsdk (I created a VirtualBox Ubuntu VM from the CD for this purpose).  The  L138 SDG that opens after the sdk is installed isgeared toward the EVM.  It leads you through setting up a DVSDK environment variable, then running setup.sh.

The prerequisite connections are unclear, for sure - maybe this is causing the problem I'm experiencing, which is that, most of the time, I see nothing in minicom, and once or twice I found that the U-Boot script created by setup.sh actually ran, but faulted because it couldn't find the directory on my host.

My questions:

*  Should the internet cable on the target be direct-connected to the host, or connected to our company intranet, and from there to the host?

*  The directions say "make also sure that the SD card received with the EVM . . . is inserted in the EVM SD card reader".  Does this refer to the card reader on the target board, or the card reader provided as part of the EVM, which was attached to the PC during execution of setup.sh?

*  I think my flash may have been corrupted.  How do I recover from this?

*  If I don't need the DVSDK at this point, how important is any of this?  Can I just skip to the User_Guide and use Code Composer in Windows?

-- Dana

What version of Ubunutu do you guys have?

I have seen issues with newer versions, and have mine curently running on 10.04.

-The ethernet cable from the target can be plugged into an ethernet switch along with your company intranet and host.

-The SD card with the pre-loaded L138 demo? There is no need to make changes this - so the board's sd card reader.

-If you halt your board at bootargs, you can erase the memory: Type nand to see the syntax. I believe it is something like nand erase.

-Michael

Hi Michael,

Thanks for responding.  We're running 10.04 LTS, straight off the CD that comes with the eXperimenter.  

I got to U-Boot this morning by  using TeraTerm instead of  minicom.  I was able to successfully boot Linux from the host by explicitly using the tftpboot and bootm commands in U-Boot, but power-cycling the board failed.  Turns out  the dhcp command, the first part of the environment variable "bootcmd", resets the environment so that "bootfile" is reset to something called mba.pxe. The minicom script created in setup.sh explicitly sets bootcmd to include "dhcp".

I modified and resaved the bootcmd environment variable to so that bootcmd=tftpboot;bootm, and it now comes up OK.

Next problem: I'm using Code Composer on the host, but the project files in the code distribution don't load. The error I get is "Error loading Managed Make project information for project <xyz>.  The tool definitions used to create the project are not available."  Both Code Composer and the examples are as I received them on the eXperimenter distribution CD and SD card.

Once this is solved, I hope to be able to load code to the board. Can you help?

Thanks,

Dana

Using TeraTerm as a workaround here should be fine. This is odd though, because I use "setenv bootcmd 'dhcp;tftp;bootm' ".

I will get one of these eXperimenter distribution CDs this afternoon and take a look at it myself. Does this use CCSv5?

Since I have not looked at the project yet, I'm unsure if this will be of help - But here is a link discussing how to import a project into CCSv5:

http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/How_to_Import_Matrix_Projects_into_CCSv5

-Michael

Dana,

Are these projects that you are trying to import the same as the Software Files on LogicPD's site (linked below)? When you say "don't load", do you mean to the board, or into CSS? I was able to load these into my CCSv4.2.3. We can discuss the particular steps if this where the problem lies.

http://www.logicpd.com/products/development-kits/zoom-omap-l138-experimenter-kit#tabs-som-2

Hallo,

i have the same problem, if i install theDVSDK i get the message: child process exited abnormally and no more information.

i try the latest version: dvsdk_omapl138-evm_04_03_00_06_setuplinux 

and there is no setup.sh in the install folder.

on my computer i install Ubuntu 10.04 and CodeSourcery G++, i have no idea more what do do else