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QNX® Momentics® 6.3.2 Freescale i.MX31 BSP 1.0.0 Release Notes

QNX® Momentics® 6.3.2 Freescale i.MX31 BSP 1.0.0 Release Notes

Date of this edition: September 06, 2007

Target OS: This BSP is compatible with targets that are running QNX® Neutrino® 6.3.2.

Host OS: In order to install this BSP, you must have installed QNX Momentics 6.3.2 on one of the following hosts:

  • Microsoft Windows Vista, XP SP2, or 2000 SP4
  • QNX® Neutrino® 6.3.2
  • Linux Red Hat Enterprise Workstation 4 or 5, Red Hat Fedora Core 6 or 7, Ubuntu 6.0.6 LTS or 7.0.4, or SUSE 10

Boards supported: Freescale i.MX31 ADS

Note:
  • For information on installing this BSP, see the installation note.
  • If you install SP2, you should also install the latest version of the QNX Momentics Character Driver Development Kit (DDK), if you installed an earlier version of it. Significant changes have been made to this DDK; please see the Character DDK Release Notes.
  • The Advanced Graphics Technology Development Kit (TDK) 2.0 is required for this BSP.
  • For the most up-to-date version of these release notes, go to our website (www.qnx.com), log into your myQNX account, and then go to the Download area.

Contents

Throughout this document, you may see reference numbers associated with particular issues, changes, etc. When corresponding with our Technical Support staff about a given issue, please quote the relevant reference number. You might also find the reference numbers useful for tracking issues as they become fixed.

What's in this BSP?

This BSP contains:

  • Binary components
  • Source code
  • Documentation

Binary components

  • Startup
  • Serial driver
  • Network driver
  • USB support
  • Audio driver
  • Graphics driver (GF)
  • EIDE driver

Source code

  • Startup
  • Serial driver
  • Network driver
  • NOR flash driver
  • NAND flash driver
  • Audio driver
  • Graphics driver (GF)
Note: The graphics driver will compile only if the Advanced Graphics TDK 2.0 is installed. Similiarly the graphics driver binary will run only if the AG TDK 2.0 is installed.

Documentation

  • Freescale i.MX31 Board Support Package readme (HTML)

Each BSP guide contains board-specific information and instructions on building an OS image for that particular board.

Location of source and documentation

When you install BSPs, you'll find the source code in $QNX_TARGET\usr\src\archives\qnx\ on Windows, and in $QNX_TARGET/usr/src/archives/qnx/ on QNX Neutrino and Linux.

You can read the documentation (including release notes) in the Integrated Development Environment's help system on all host OSs; on self-hosted QNX Neutrino systems, you can also read it in the Photon helpviewer, or you can use a web browser to display:

${QNX_TARGET}/usr/help/product/momentics/bookset.html

This "roadmap" page contains links to the various HTML booksets that accompany the OS (e.g. System Architecture, QNX Neutrino Programmer's Guide, Library Reference, Utilities Reference, etc.).

Known issues for this BSP

Note: Please check the version of these release notes on the website for the most up-to-date information.

  • USB devices connected to the USB port1 (i.e. Full Speed:USB 1.0 compliant) through a USB hub (2.0 or 1.0 compliant) won't be detected on a RevC of the Freescale i.MX31 ADS board. If connected to a RevD most devices will be detected but a low speed device such as a USB mouse won't be detected. However If the low speed device is connected directly to this USB port it will be detected. (Ref# 41759).

    Workaround: Use the USB Port2 on either Revc or RevD boards (i.e. High Speed port: USB 2.0 compliant) and every device will be detected properly or do not use a hub to connect USB devices on the USB port1.

  • In Microsoft Windows, certain programs (e.g. Norton Ghost) add directories inside double quotation marks (e.g. ...;"c:\Program Files\Norton Ghost\";...) to your PATH environment variable. This causes the Cygwin spawn() function to fail, which in turn causes cp to fail when called by ln-w. (Ref# 20046)

    Workaround: Modify your PATH environment variable and remove any quotation marks.

  • Some warnings may be displayed when compiling this BSP with one or both supported compilers. These warnings are benign and do not affect the functionality of the resulting binaries.

  • In those instances where the the ROM monitor's MAC address is different from the one you pass in when running io-net, the host can cache the ROM monitor's address. This can result in a loss of connectivity.

    Workaround: If you need to specify a MAC address to io-net, we recommend that you use the same MAC address that the ROM monitor uses. This will ensure that if the host caches the ROM monitor's MAC address, you'll still be able to communicate with the target. Otherwise you might need to delete the target's arp entry on your host.

  • If you specify the -d and -p options for io-graphics, you must put the -d option before the -p, or else io-graphics fails. (Ref# 22670)
  • When you install several BSPs that share common files, you'll be prompted to overwrite the existing files. We recommend that you backup the existing files before you overwrite them. Uninstalling any BSP that shares that file will currently remove the common file. You'll need to restore the backup after you uninstall any BSP that shared the file(s). (Ref# 22922)

Technical support

If you have any questions, comments, or problems with a QNX product, please contact Technical Support. For more information, see the How to Get Help chapter of the Welcome to QNX Momentics guide or visit our website, www.qnx.com.