Aero-Flex GAISLER GR-LEON4-ITX - Manual (Page 3)

3 GR-LEON4-ITX Development Board
Quick Start Guide
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................6
1.1 Overview......................................................................................................................6
1.2 References...................................................................................................................6
1.3 Abbreviations...............................................................................................................6
2 UNPACKING AND SETTING UP THE BOARD...........................................................7
2.1 Unpacking and initial setup..........................................................................................7
2.2 Running the bundled Linux system..............................................................................7
Overview......................................................................................................................7
Pre-requisites...............................................................................................................7
Booting Linux...............................................................................................................8
2.3 Connecting with the GRMON debug monitor...............................................................8
Overview......................................................................................................................8
Pre-requisites...............................................................................................................8
Connecting with the included JTAG adapter................................................................9
Connecting with a Xilinx USB JTAG adapter................................................................9
Connecting via the USB interface................................................................................9
Connecting via serial UART.........................................................................................9
Connecting via Ethernet...............................................................................................9
Using GRMON...........................................................................................................10
3 LINUX SYSTEM USER GUIDE.................................................................................11
3.1 Overview....................................................................................................................11
3.2 Debian Operating System..........................................................................................11
3.3 Logging in to the system............................................................................................11
3.4 Shutting down the System..........................................................................................12
3.5 Graphical Interface (X Window System)....................................................................12
3.6 Network Interface.......................................................................................................12
3.7 System Time Keeping................................................................................................13
3.8 Changing the Keyboard Layout..................................................................................13
4 GRMON AND THE GR-LEON4-ITX BOARD.............................................................14
4.1 First steps..................................................................................................................14
4.2 Running an application...............................................................................................15
4.3 Initializing the DVI transmitter.....................................................................................16
4.4 Drawing images.........................................................................................................17
4.5 Interacting with the SPI boot PROM...........................................................................17
4.6 Interacting with I2C devices.......................................................................................19
4.7 Other interfaces and operations.................................................................................19
5 ADVANCED TOPICS..................................................................................................20
5.1 Building the Linux kernel............................................................................................20
Overview....................................................................................................................20
Downloading an image with GRMON.........................................................................21
5.2 Creating a boot PROM...............................................................................................27
Overview....................................................................................................................27
MKPROM2.................................................................................................................27
U-boot........................................................................................................................ 28
6 TROUBLESHOOTING AND FREQUENCY ASKED QUESTIONS..........................31
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