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.. zephyr:board:: pocketbeagle_2
Overview
********
PocketBeagle 2 is a computational platform powered by a TI AM6254 SoC.
(NOTE: Rev A0 used a TI AM6232 SoC and is no longer available. Rev A1
uses a TI AM6254 SoC.)
See the `PocketBeagle 2 Product Page`_ for details.
Hardware
********
PocketBeagle 2 features the TI AM62x SoC based around an Arm Cortex-A53 multicore
cluster with an Arm Cortex-M4F microcontroller, Imagination Technologies AXE-1-16
graphics processor and TI programmable real-time unit subsystem microcontroller
cluster coprocessors.
Additionally, PocketBeagle 2 also contains an MSPM0L1105 SoC which serves as EEPROM and ADC.
Zephyr is enabled to run on:
- Arm Cortex-A53 cores on AM62x,
- Arm Cortex-M4F core on AM62x, and
- Arm Cortex-M0+ core on MSPM0L1105.
Currently supported PocketBeagle 2 revisions:
- A0: Comes with SOC AM6232. Discontinued.
- A1: Comes with SOC AM6254
Supported Features
==================
.. zephyr:board-supported-hw::
Devices
========
System Clock
------------
This board configuration uses a system clock frequency of 400 MHz.
DDR RAM
-------
The board has 512MB of DDR RAM available. This board configuration
allocates Zephyr 4kB of RAM (only for resource table: 0x9CC00000 to 0x9CC00400).
Serial Port
-----------
A53 Cores
^^^^^^^^^
This board configuration uses single serial communication channel with the MAIN domain UART
(MAIN_UART6, i.e. debug port).
M4F Core
^^^^^^^^
This board configuration uses a single serial communication channel with the
MCU domain UART (MCU_UART0, i.e. P2.05 as RX and P2.07 as TX).
SD Card
*******
A53 Cores
=========
Download BeagleBoard.org's official `BeagleBoard Imaging Utility`_ to create bootable
SD-card with the Zephyr image. Optionally, the Zephyr SD Card images can be downloaded from
`bb-zephyr-images`_.
M4F Core
========
Download BeagleBoard.org's official `BeagleBoard Imaging Utility`_ to create bootable
SD-card with the Linux distro image. This will boot Linux on the A53 application
cores. These cores will then load the Zephyr binary on the M4 core using remoteproc.
MSPM0L1105
==========
Download BeagleBoard.org's official `BeagleBoard Imaging Utility`_ to create bootable
SD-card with the Linux distro image. This will boot Linux on the A53 application
cores. We can then flash MSPM0L1105 firmware from Linux using BSL over I2C. The BeagleBoard.org
distro images ship with a driver that supports `Firmware Upload API`_ for MSPM0L1105.
Flashing
********
A53 Core
========
The testing requires the binary to be copied to the BOOT partition in SD card.
To test the A53 core, we build the :zephyr:code-sample:`hello_world` sample with the following command.
.. zephyr-app-commands::
:board: pocketbeagle_2/am6254/a53
:zephyr-app: samples/hello_world
:goals: build
We now copy this binary onto the SD card in the :file:`/boot/` directory and name it as
:file:`zephyr.bin`.
.. code-block:: console
# Mount the SD card at sdcard for example
sudo mount /dev/sdX sdcard
# copy the bin to the /boot/
sudo cp --remove-destination zephyr.bin sdcard/boot/zephyr.bin
The SD card can now be used for booting.
The binary will run and print Hello world to the debug port.
M4F Core
========
The board supports remoteproc using the OpenAMP resource table.
The testing requires the binary to be copied to the SD card to allow the A53 cores to load it while booting using remoteproc.
To test the M4F core, we build the :zephyr:code-sample:`hello_world` sample with the following command.
.. zephyr-app-commands::
:board: pocketbeagle_2/am6254/m4
:zephyr-app: samples/hello_world
:goals: build
This builds the program and the binary is present in the :file:`build/zephyr` directory as
:file:`zephyr.elf`.
We now copy this binary onto the SD card in the :file:`/lib/firmware` directory and name it as
:file:`am62-mcu-m4f0_0-fw`.
.. code-block:: console
# Mount the SD card at sdcard for example
sudo mount /dev/sdX sdcard
# copy the elf to the /lib/firmware directory
sudo cp --remove-destination zephyr.elf sdcard/lib/firmware/am62-mcu-m4f0_0-fw
The SD card can now be used for booting. The binary will now be loaded onto the M4F core on boot.
The binary will run and print Hello world to the MCU_UART0 port.
MSPM0L1105
==========
.. note::
On PocketBeagle 2 MSPM0L1105 is used as EEPROM and ADC. So flashing any custom firmware will
break this functionality.
.. note::
Flashing new firmware will also clear the EEPROM contents. So please make backup of EEPROM data
before attempting to flash firmware to MSPM0L1105.
To test the A53 cores, we build the :zephyr:code-sample:`minimal` sample with the following command.
.. zephyr-app-commands::
:board: pocketbeagle_2/mspm0l1105
:zephyr-app: samples/basic/minimal
:goals: build
This builds the program and the binary is present in the :file:`build/zephyr` directory as
:file:`zephyr.bin`.
We now flash this binary using FW Upload API.
.. code-block:: console
echo 1 > /sys/class/firmware/mspm0l1105/loading
dd if=zephyr.bin of=/sys/class/firmware/mspm0l1105/data
echo 0 > /sys/class/firmware/mspm0l1105/loading
Debugging
*********
M4F Core
========
The board supports debugging M4 core from the A53 cores running Linux. Since the target needs
superuser privilege, OpenOCD needs to be launched separately for now:
.. code-block:: console
sudo openocd -f board/ti_am625_swd_native.cfg
Start debugging
.. zephyr-app-commands::
:board: pocketbeagle_2/am6254/m4
:goals: debug
MSPM0L1105
==========
Before beginning to debug, the devicetree overlay ``k3-am62-pocketbeagle2-mspm0swd.dtbo`` needs to be
applied to enable the SWD pins. This can be done by adding the following entry to
:file:`/boot/firmware/extlinux/extlinux.conf`:
.. code-block:: console
label msmp0
kernel /Image.gz
append console=ttyS2,115200n8 earlycon=ns16550a,mmio32,0x02860000 root=/dev/mmcblk1p3 ro rootfstype=ext4 fsck.repair=yes resume=/dev/mmcblk1p2 rootwait net.ifnames=0
fdtdir /
fdtoverlays /overlays/k3-am62-pocketbeagle2-mspm0swd.dtbo
After saving changes to :file:`/boot/firmware/extlinux/extlinux.conf`, this boot entry can be
selected using one of the following ways:
- Setting it as default entry in :file:`/boot/firmware/extlinux/extlinux.conf`.
- Selecting the entry over UART in the bootmenu.
The board supports debugging MSPM0L1105 from the A53 cores running Linux. Since OpenOCD shipped
with Zephyr does not support sysfsgpio driver, OpenOCD needs to be launched separately for now:
.. code-block:: console
openocd -f board/beagle/pocketbeagle_2/support/mspm0l1105.cfg
Start debugging
.. zephyr-app-commands::
:board: pocketbeagle_2/mspm0l1105
:goals: debug
.. note::
The MSPM0 ADC EEPROM firmware shipped by default disables SWD debugging. So for the above
instructions to work, a firmware that enables SWD debugging needs to be flashed. This can be done
by using linux FW UPLOAD API exposed at ``/sys/class/firmware/mspm0l1105``.
Alternatively, one can get the same effect by doing a power-on-reset on the MSPM0l1105.
References
**********
* `PocketBeagle 2 Product Page`_
* `Documentation <https://docs.beagleboard.org/boards/pocketbeagle-2/index.html>`_
.. _PocketBeagle 2 Product Page:
https://www.beagleboard.org/boards/pocketbeagle-2
.. _BeagleBoard Imaging Utility:
https://github.com/beagleboard/bb-imager-rs/releases
.. _bb-zephyr-images:
https://github.com/beagleboard/bb-zephyr-images/releases
.. _Firmware Upload API:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/driver-api/firmware/fw_upload.html