Overview

The DNP/9200 with DNP/EVA9 platform HAL package is loaded automatically when eCos is configured for dnp_sk23 target. It should never be necessary to load this package explicitly. Unloading the package should only happen as a side effect of switching target hardware.

Startup

The platform HAL package supports three separate startup types:

RedBoot and Virtual Vectors

If the application is intended to act as a ROM monitor, providing services for other applications, then the configuration option CYGSEM_HAL_ROM_MONITOR should be set. Typically this option is set only when building RedBoot.

If the application is supposed to make use of services provided by a ROM monitor, via the eCos virtual vector mechanism, then the configuration option CYGSEM_HAL_USE_ROM_MONITOR should be set. By default this option is enabled when building for a RAM startup, disabled otherwise. It can be manually disabled for a RAM startup, making the application self-contained, as a testing step before switching to ROM startup.

If the application does not rely on a ROM monitor for diagnostic services then the serial port will be claimed for HAL diagnostics.

Flash Driver

The DNP/9200 board contains a 16Mbyte Intel 28F128J3 parallel Flash device. The CYGPKG_DEVS_FLASH_STRATA_V2 package contains all the code necessary to support this part and the platform HAL package contains definitions that customize the driver to the board. This driver is not active until the generic Flash support package, CYGPKG_IO_FLASH, is included in the configuration.

Ethernet Driver

The DNP/9200 board uses the AT91RM9200's internal EMAC ethernet device attached to an external Davicom DM9161 PHY. The CYGPKG_DEVS_ETH_ARM_AT91RM9200 package contains all the code necessary to support this device and the platform HAL package contains definitions that customize the driver to the DNP/9200 board. This driver is not active until the generic Ethernet support package, CYGPKG_IO_ETH_DRIVERS, is included in the configuration.

RTC Driver

The DNP/9200 board uses the AT91RM9200's internal RTC support. The CYGPKG_DEVICES_WALLCLOCK_ARM_AT91 package contains all the code necessary to support this device. This driver is not active until the generic wallclock device support package, CYGPKG_IO_WALLCLOCK, is included in the configuration.

Watchdog Driver

The DNP/9200 board uses the AT91RM9200's internal watchdog support. The CYGPKG_DEVICES_WATCHDOG_ARM_AT91RM9200 package contains all the code necessary to support this device. Within that package the CYGNUM_DEVS_WATCHDOG_ARM_AT91RM9200_DESIRED_TIMEOUT_MS configuration option controls the watchdog timeout, and by default will force a reset of the board upon timeout. This driver is not active until the generic watchdog device support package, CYGPKG_IO_WATCHDOG, is included in the configuration.

USART Serial Driver

The DNP/9200 board uses the AT91RM9200's internal USART serial support as described in the AT91RM9200 processor HAL documentation. Two serial ports are available: USART 1 which is mapped to virtual vector channel 0 in the HAL diagnostic driver or "/dev/ser1" in the interrupt-driven driver; and USART 2 which is mapped to virtual vector channel 1 and "/dev/ser2". Both UARTs support modem control signals such as those used for hardware flow control.

MCI Driver

As described in the SSV board documentation, in order to use the MMC/SD socket on the EVA9 board, the JP8 jumper block must have all jumpers in place, i.e. closed . The SPI jumper block JP9 must have all jumpers removed, i.e. open.

As the AT91RM9200 MCI driver is part of the AT91RM9200 HAL, nothing is required to load it. Similarly the MMC/SD bus driver layer (CYGPKG_DEVS_DISK_MMC) is automatically included as part of the hardware-specific configuration for this target. All that is required to enable the support is to include the generic disk I/O infrastructure package (CYGPKG_IO_DISK), along with the intended filesystem, typically, the FAT filesystem (CYGPKG_FS_FAT) and any of its package dependencies (including CYGPKG_LIBC_STRING and CYGPKG_LINUX_COMPAT for FAT).

Various options can be used to control specific of the AT91RM9200 MCI driver. Consult the AT91RM9200 HAL documentation for information on its configuration.

On this target, it is not possible to detect from the MMC/SD socket whether cards have been inserted or removed. Thus the disk I/O layer's removeable media support will not detect when cards have been inserted or removed, and therefore the only way to detect if a card has been inserted is to attempt mounts.

The MMC/SD socket also does not permit detection of the write-protect (or "lock") switch present on SD cards. "Locked" cards will therefore not be detected which means that despite the switch position, it is still possible to write to them since the lock switch does not physically enforce write protection.

Compiler Flags

The platform HAL defines the default compiler and linker flags for all packages, although it is possible to override these on a per-package basis. Most of the flags used are the same as for other architectures supported by eCos. There are just three flags specific to this port: