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I am using GPIO8 (SD_DATA_1) as output (0/1). At power up, it has default value "1" and only after boot (300-400ms), I can set state to "0". How to I set default state to zero, so it doesn't goes to "1" at power up.
I'm using eclipse and eps-idf (wondows).

GPIO6-11 and GPIO16-17 are usually connected to the SPI flash and PSRAM integrated on the module and therefore should not be used for other purposes".
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How does GetCommState populate the DCB struct in Windows 10 when using usbser.sys CDC ACM driver

I am building a embedded device that will communicate to the outside world by virtual COM. I have the descriptor and all the callbacks for the USB set up correctly and COM is working - well kind of. The problem is that when I issue the GetCommState command for the COM I get a semi valid struct back and when one fixes only couple of parameters (like setting the speed and 8N1) and try to reconfigure the port by calling SetCommState the actions fails with: 'A device attached to the system is not functioning.'
If one continues to use the port it just work - all writes and reads - without a problem. But the issue is that most libraries try to reconfigure the port by first issuing the GetCommState and then SetCommState - pyserial and C# both do it in this way.
My question is where do the "default" configuration for COM comes form?
In the USB ACM CDC standard there are (optional) class requests for SET and GET COMM feature but I can see (from USB sniffer) that they are never called (I tried with capabilities for USB ACM CDC set to 0x06 (that is without SET/GET COMM) and 0x07 (with SET/GET COMM) but in no case I get a class request from the driver). So the driver must take the config from somewhere else, does anybody knows from where or how?
I am using an NXP LPC and Windows 10 with usbser.sys driver on other end.
What I already checked is:
compared the USB descriptor to the working one - they are the same
checked the USB traffic - the enumeration and communication looks the same
without doing GetCommState and SetCommState the COM is working without problem
I attached the content of the DCB struct for working sample (left) and my (right). I do not understand where do the marked values come from? Who sets them?
The settings should come from the port driver - you can view and set default values in the Windows Device Manager. In your case, it would seem that flow control with RTS/CTS is enabled (left picture), which might be something that your USB adapter uses internally. If it works, then leave those settings as they were.
I'd advise to do like this:
Always check the result of each API function you call!
Call CreateFile to get the port handle.
Optionally call GetCommTimeouts and store the result in a zero-initialized struct like COMMTIMEOUTS com_timeouts = {0};. Change members of the struct as needed, then call SetCommTimeouts.
Create an (almost) zero-initialized struct DCB dcb = { .DCBlength = sizeof(DCB) }.
Call GetCommState on this struct.
Set baudrate, parity, stop bits etc as required. Leave other members as they were.
Call SetCommState.

How to Send a Value to Another Driver's Sysfs Attribute

This is all in Linux 4.14.73. I'd upgrade if I could but I cant.
I'm trying to trigger an LED flash in a standard LED class instance from another kernel space driver. I know all about the "bad form" of not accessing files from Kernel Space so I figure there must be some way already defined way for accessing Sysfs attributes from Kernel Space.
The LED is defined here:
/sys/class/leds/fpga_led0
Its trigger is set to [oneshot] so it has a device attribute called "shot" exposed. To get a single LED flash all I need to do from the command line is this:
echo 1 > /sys/class/leds/fpga_led0/shot
I can easily write a User Space program to open the "shot" attribute and write a "1" string to it. There are various published methods of forcing file operations into a kernel driver. Most of them are fairly limited. I've yet to see one that exposes file seek operations which are key to repeatedly writing to an attribute without wasting time opening and closing the file. To be clear, this is not setting values at boot time. In this case I have one driver that needs to send a value to another driver's Sysfs entry at a specific moment in its own operation. Is there a standard, accepted way of sending a value from one running kernel driver to the Sysfs attribute of another kernel driver?

Unable to change gpio value

Currently I'm trying to check the booting time of an Tixi board using systemd on a 2.6.39 linux kernel. To do so I created a service file that calls a bash script which sets and uses a gpio. The problem is that my systems is not allowing me to change the value of the gpio. I can sucessfully export it, change its direction, but NOT the value. I have connected an oscilloscope to check if the value had changed in the hardware but not updated in the file as suggested in some forums, but it was the same: the value just doesn't change!
I should also point out that the same script is working if I use system V, with exactly the same coonfiguration for the kernel, busybox and filesystem.
It is very ironic because I'm already the root of the systems, nevertheless even changing the permissions of the file, would not allow me to change its value. There is also no feedback from the kernel saying that the operation was not possible, but rather it looks as if it was possible but when I check the value, it was the same as before.
I also tried to run that in the Raspbian with a 3.12 (which I changed to systemd) and it was in fact possible to do it, just in the normal way from userspace.
I would appreciate if you have any idea oh what might be the problem since I already run out of ideas.
Thanks
PS: This is the code that should work on the bash line:
echo 0 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio104/value
more /sys/class/gpio/gpio104/value
// I get 1 not 0 as I requested
Nevertheless the same lines of code in the same board work if I use systemV but not if I use systemd
Probably cause by the lack of udev in your new setup which change the permission for those gpio in /sys/class. You might want to just put back udev to see if it fixes your problem.
I don't know your image setting, but each gpio pins needs to be exported prior to usage. Are you doing it or it's done automatically? If you have omap mux kernel switch, you do something like :
echo 0x104 > /sys/kernel/debug/omap_mux/cam_d5 (set mode 4 as stipulate in TI Sitara TRM)
echo 104 > /sys/class/gpio/export (export the pin)
echo out > /sys/class/gpio/gpio104/direction (set the pin as output)
Also do a dmesg | grep gpio and see if there's any initializing problem with the gpio mux.
Actually I've faced an issue similar to your's , ie was not able to change the value of set of gpio pin manually
Finally the result obtained was even though the name of that pin is gpio it can only be used for input only (DM3730 gpiO_114 and gpio_115).
So please refer to the datasheet and confirm it can be used for I/O operations..

Jump to App from custom bootloader in TMS320 digital media processor

I am working on a boot loader for TMS320DM6437. The idea is to create 2 independent firmware that one will update another. In firmware1 I will download firmware2 file and write it to NOR flash in a specified address. Both firmware are stored in NOR flash in ais format. Now I have two applications in flash. One is my custom boot loader and the second one is my main project. I want to know how I can jump from the first program to the second program located at a specified address. I also expect information about documents which may help me to create custom bootloader
Any recommendations?
You can jump to the entry point. I'm using this approach on TMS320 2802x and 2803x, but it should be the same.
The symbol of the entry point is c_int00.
To get to know the address of c_int00 in the second application, you have to fix the Run-Time Support (RTS) library at a specific address, by modifying the linker command file.
Otherwise you can leave the RTS unconstrained, and create a C variable (at a fixed address) that is initialized with the value of cint_00. Using this method your memory map is more flexible and you can add, togheter with the C variable, a comprehensive data structure with other information for your bootloader, e.g. CRC, version number, etc.
Be carefull with the (re)initialization of the peripherals in the second application, since you are not starting from a hardware reset, and you may need to explicity reset some more registers, or clear interrupt requests.

How to set intel_idle.max_cstate=0 to disable c-states?

I would like to disable c-states on my computer.
I disabled c-state on BIOS but I don't obtain any result. However, I found an explanation :
"Most newer Linux distributions, on systems with Intel processors, use the “intel_idle” driver (probably compiled into your kernel and not a separate module) to use C-states. This driver uses knowledge of the various CPUs to control C-states without input from system firmware (BIOS). This driver will mostly ignore any other BIOS setting and kernel parameters"
I found two solutions to solve this problem but I don't know how to apply:
1) " so if you want control over C-states, you should use kernel parameter “intel_idle.max_cstate=0” to disable this driver."
I don't know neither how I can check the value (of intel_idle.max_cstate ) and neither how I can change its value.
2) "To dynamically control C-states, open the file /dev/cpu_dma_latency and write the maximum allowable latency to it. This will prevent C-states with transition latencies higher than the specified value from being used, as long as the file /dev/cpu_dma_latency is kept open. Writing a maximum allowable latency of 0 will keep the processors in C0"
I can't read the file cpu_dma_latency.
Thanks for your help.
Computer:
Intel Xeon CPU E5-2620
Gnome 2.28.2
Linux 2.6.32-358
To alter the value at boot time, you can modify the GRUB configuration or edit it on the fly -- the method to modify that varies by distribution. This is the Ubuntu documentation to change kernel parameters either for a single boot, or permanently. For a RHEL-derived distribution, I don't see docs that are quite as clear, but you directly modify /boot/grub/grub.conf to include the parameter on the "kernel" lines for each bootable stanza.
For the second part of the question, many device files are read-only or write-only. You could use a small perl script like this (untested and not very clean, but should work) to keep the file open:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use FileHandle;
my $fd = open (">/dev/cpu_dma_latency");
print $fd "0";
print "Press CTRL-C to end.\n";
while (1) {
sleep 5;
}
Redhat has a C snippet in a KB article here as well and more description of the parameter.

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