Laymer / nerves_system_grisp2

Base Nerves system configuration for the GRiSP 2

GRiSP 2 Support

This might be the base Nerves System configuration for the GRiSP 2.

This is a work in progress. It may change in backwards incompatible ways and the documentation might be lacking.

To do:

• Bring up Ethernet
• Bring up WiFi
• Verify RGB LEDs
• Verify DIP switches
• Enable 1-Wire and test
• Verify SPI
• Verify MicroSD card works
• Verify ATECC608B
• Verify HW watchdog
• Add ramoops support
• Review GRiSP2 specs to see what else there is to verify
• Check that TARGET_GCC_FLAGS are right
• Update Linux kernel to 5.10
• Update Nerves Toolchain 1.5.0 version
• Implement A/B firmware updates work
• Create example app that uses GRiSP2. See Circuits Quickstart and Nerves Livebook
• Review Linux kernel options and compare with other systems
• Clean up debug and low hanging items to improve boot time
• Clean up changes to GRiSP repositories and send PRs
• Use GRiSP serial number in hostname

Feature	Description
CPU	NXP iMX6ULL, ARM Cortex-A7 @ 696 MHz
Memory	512 MB DRAM
Storage	4 GB eMMC and optional MicroSD
Linux kernel	5.15 w/ Phytec patches
IEx terminal	ttymxc0
GPIO, I2C, SPI	Yes - Elixir Circuits
LEDs	Yes - named red:indicator-1, etc. in sys/class/leds
ADC	-
PWM	-
UART	ttymxc0-ttymxc5
Camera	None
Ethernet	Yes
WiFi	Yes - 2.4GHz station mode (no Soft-AP) (R8188EU)
HW Watchdog	i.MX6 watchdog enabled on boot

Using

The most common way of using this Nerves System is create a project with mix nerves.new and to export MIX_TARGET=grisp2. See the Getting started guide for more information.

If you need custom modifications to this system for your device, clone this repository and update as described in Making custom systems

Boot notes

This system isn't ready for general use. If you know how to build a Nerves system, then it will probably be a little frustrating, but you'll get something to boot.

1. Build the system

2. Create a test Nerves project or try circuits_quickstart to use it.

3. Build the project with mix firmware. Then run mix firmware.image to get an image file.

4. gzip the image file and copy to a FAT-formatted MicroSD card.

5. Connect the GRiSP2's USB port to your computer and open up a terminal session (115200 8N1).

6. Boot the GRiSP2 and press a key to break into the bootloader.

7. Run:

   uncompress /mnt/mmc/myfirmware.img.gz /dev/mmc1
   reset
   

8. Now you should be able to use mix upload or ./upload.sh for subsequent updates. The firmware is set to auto-validate.

Console access

GRISP2 will create two virtual UART ports when plugged in. The second of these will contain a system console where you can interact with BareBox and the Elixir Shell. On Linux, this looks like:

/dev/ttyUSB0
/dev/ttyUSB1

You can connect via picocom with:

picocom /dev/ttyUSB1 115200

NOTE: This differs from the Official GRISP2 guide in that we don't need the --echo flag.

PMOD usage

The GRiSP 2 has five PMOD interfaces. GPIO pins should all be accessible. Pins for other functions are configured for those functions:

• UART PMOD - access the UART pins via ttymcx3
• I2C PMOD - access I2C via i2c-1
• SPI1 PMOD - access SPI via spidev0.0
• SPI2 PMOD - access SPI via spidev0.1

Provisioning devices

TODO: The GRiSP 2 includes an ATECC608A so provisioning the board for use with NervesHub can be done without setting U-Boot environment variables.

Linux versions

TBD

We're currently using PHYTEC's Linux kernel fork from git.phytec.de/linux-mainline.