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Feb 25 07:36:29 <tokencolour> Hello!
Feb 25 07:37:10 <tokencolour>  I'm a GSoC 17 aspirant and am interested in the idea BeagleBone/Beagle board PRU DMA
Feb 25 07:37:58 <tokencolour>  I was trying an edma sample application given at http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/EDMA_sample_test_application
Feb 25 07:38:23 <tokencolour>  but I'm failing to get it running.
Feb 25 07:39:22 <tokencolour>  The compiler can't find asm/hardware/edma.h
Feb 25 07:39:31 <tokencolour> fatal error: asm/hardware/edma.h: No such file or directory
Feb 25 07:40:26 <tokencolour> When I `find /usr | grep edma.h` I get the following files.
Feb 25 07:41:21 <tokencolour> /usr/src/linux-headers-3.8.13-bone79/include/config/ti/priv/edma.h
Feb 25 07:41:37 <tokencolour> /usr/src/linux-headers-3.8.13-bone79/include/config/ti/edma.h
Feb 25 07:41:51 <tokencolour> /usr/src/linux-headers-3.8.13-bone79/include/linux/platform_data/edma.h
Feb 25 07:42:04 <tokencolour> /usr/src/linux-headers-3.8.13-bone79/include/linux/edma.h
Feb 25 07:42:24 <tokencolour> Is this the right example I am looking at?
Feb 25 07:43:54 <tokencolour> I want to get an idea of what I should be doing so that I can draft an effective proposal
Feb 25 07:47:11 <tokencolour_> The ideas page lists ds2 as the mentor for this project. How can I get in contact with him?
Feb 25 07:50:15 <tokencolour_> I also read through the functional description of EDMA3 controller given in AM335x-TRM.
Feb 25 07:50:41 <tokencolour_> Are there more refernces I should be aware of?
Feb 25 07:50:53 <tokencolour_> *references
Feb 25 21:05:07 <pmezydlo> m_w: hi, How are you after ELC? I've seen a lot of interesting presentations.
Feb 25 21:07:35 <m_w> good
Feb 25 21:07:41 <m_w> had a lot of fun
Feb 25 21:09:29 <m_w> going to scale15x next week
Feb 25 21:11:21 <pmezydlo> I hope that one day I go to conferences,
Feb 25 21:11:52 <pmezydlo> it must be a great event
Feb 25 21:12:59 <pmezydlo> m_w: Thanks for PCB review. What do you think? I had a lot of stupid mistake
Feb 25 21:17:58 <m_w> pmezydlo: it is pretty good
Feb 25 21:18:21 <m_w> are you going to assemble a few?
Feb 25 21:21:57 <pmezydlo> m_w: I'm not sure but for 2-3 months I need to have cape with rs232 for my final project at the university
Feb 25 21:23:20 <pmezydlo> some measuring instruments need to work using RS232
Feb 25 21:23:51 <m_w> did you know that there is already a similar cape?
Feb 25 21:24:48 <m_w> http://www.hobrasoft.cz/en/fotobothw/deska-4x232
Feb 25 21:25:19 <pmezydlo> yes, but i have to add some elements for my project (more leds and switch)
Feb 25 21:25:37 <m_w> pmezydlo: someone was asking about the serial terminal server gsoc and I let them know about your cape
Feb 25 21:30:06 <pmezydlo> m_w: I want to prepare a brief description of the FPGA project on ideas page.
Feb 25 21:30:29 <pmezydlo> if I have to wait another
Feb 25 21:30:34 <pmezydlo> ?
Feb 25 21:32:31 <m_w> you can send me the description if you want
Feb 25 21:32:39 <m_w> for review before posting
Feb 25 21:32:51 <m_w> are youu wanting to be a mentor or a student?
Feb 25 21:32:59 <nerdboy> should we have a hack-a-pitop project?
Feb 25 21:33:11 <m_w> ha
Feb 25 21:33:21 <pmezydlo> as a student
Feb 25 21:33:26 <m_w> tony lindgrens pitop is awesome
Feb 25 21:33:55 <m_w> I think the ideas page is supposed to list projects from potential mentors
Feb 25 21:34:06 <nerdboy> prototype cable and port/rewrite power/battery/display stuff?
Feb 25 21:34:29 <pmezydlo> fpga cape
Feb 25 21:35:18 <m_w> sorry have to go for a bit, be back in a while
Feb 25 21:35:38 <pmezydlo> ok np
Feb 25 22:14:18 <pmezydlo> m_w:  If you have time we can start working on FPGA cape.
Feb 25 23:16:37 <m_w> pmezydlo: certainly
Feb 25 23:17:13 <m_w> pmezydlo: would you like me to create the master repository?
Feb 25 23:17:35 <pmezydlo> yes sure
Feb 25 23:18:51 <nerdboy> did you document that idea?
Feb 25 23:19:01 <nerdboy> if it's for gsoc...
Feb 25 23:19:33 <m_w> well not yet, but we need to materialize the software portion a bit
Feb 25 23:20:34 <pmezydlo>  it's a little sad that the GSoC does not allow a hardware project
Feb 25 23:21:04 <m_w> pmezydlo: what did you have in terms of ideas for the fpga?
Feb 25 23:21:43 <m_w> nerdboy: do you have any good ideas for software on a fpga platform?
Feb 25 23:22:21 <m_w> since we are using the ice40 we can get the icestorm toolchain running on the bbb
Feb 25 23:23:17 <nerdboy> using opencores?
Feb 25 23:24:03 <pmezydlo> m_w: support for makehdl and bridge between BB and ICE40 (kernel driver)
Feb 25 23:24:28 <pmezydlo> *HDLmake
Feb 25 23:24:41 <nerdboy> a microcontroller blob would be good
Feb 25 23:25:15 <m_w> I got the picorv32 running on the ICE40 board I have here
Feb 25 23:25:43 <m_w> it used the internal SRAM blocks so the code size was pretty limited
Feb 25 23:26:13 <m_w> it did run C code using the risc-v gcc compiler
Feb 25 23:26:47 <m_w> is verilog coding okay for gsoc?
Feb 25 23:27:08 <pmezydlo> m_w: do you want to add other elements on fpga cape e.g. memory?
Feb 25 23:27:33 <nerdboy> a couple of good documented demos using full open source toolchain would be good
Feb 25 23:27:42 <m_w> I think it best if we use some external SDRAM or at least SRAM
Feb 25 23:27:43 <pmezydlo> vhdl and verilog it's good options for gsoc  i think :)
Feb 25 23:28:15 <nerdboy> they both count as software *if* you actually write the source
Feb 25 23:28:30 <m_w> awesome
Feb 25 23:28:39 <pmezydlo> I think on any university teach HDL language
Feb 25 23:28:50 <nerdboy> i'd say "not really" if it gets generated by some gui design tool
Feb 25 23:29:21 <m_w> okay that makes sense, unless you write the code to for gui :)
Feb 25 23:29:33 <nerdboy> document it with doxygen and run some correctness tools on it
Feb 25 23:29:45 <m_w> currently icestorm is completely commandline based
Feb 25 23:29:47 <nerdboy> no, i mean like altera toolchain
Feb 25 23:29:59 <pmezydlo> yeah altera is good
Feb 25 23:30:28 <nerdboy> vhdl/verilog is just an intermediate step for the "firmware" engineers i've seen lately
Feb 25 23:31:20 <m_w> okay, I will make an entry for the fpga project
Feb 25 23:31:25 <nerdboy> like i said, use doxygen to document the code and get it building in ci with analysis tools
Feb 25 23:31:45 <nerdboy> then i will vote "its software!"
Feb 25 23:32:10 <m_w> know there may be some competition for this project
Feb 25 23:33:19 <nerdboy> http://www.cprover.org/ebmc/  <=  before you compile
Feb 25 23:33:25 <nerdboy> verify
Feb 25 23:33:51 <nerdboy> one example tool
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