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blippy

You can only do that if you use the settings in config.sys to run non standard defaults. Ah, I see. That explains it. Also, why are the instructions of the form ldr pc,reset_handler rather than b reset_handler I'm guessing that it's because the latter jumps relatively, whilst the former jumps absol...

blippy

Seeings as we know where the interrupt table is, why don't we just set the relevant location? E.g. void my_swi_routine() { .... } void kernel_main() { *0x8 = my_swi_routine; ... } I figure I must be missing something. Aha. I see what I'm missing. The point is that the interrupt table is not a vecto...

blippy

Well, I managed to get something working. I'm not sure I entirely understand how it gets set up, but and actual IRQ handler function itself doesn't seem that difficult: save the registers, do your stuff, clear the handling flag, restore the registers. One thing I did notice is that a common way of s...

blippy

I've been trying to follow through the setting of interrupts. It seems quite complicated from the examples I've seen. Seeings as we know where the interrupt table is, why don't we just set the relevant location? E.g. void my_swi_routine() { .... } void kernel_main() { *0x8 = my_swi_routine; ... } I ...

blippy

FTrevorGowen wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 24, 2020 4:19 pm
@blippy, for future reference you may find these notes/tests about/of a number of USB-to-Serial TTL devices of interest:
https://www.cpmspectrepi.uk/raspberry_p ... pters.html
Trev.

Many thanks.

blippy

Just adjust the resistor values to drop it to 3V3 or slightly less. Plenty of on-line calculators available. 10K over 30K would probably do the job. That's got to be a lot easier than using an ESP as some sort of proxy. My electronics knowledge is naff, but I can figure out voltage dividers. If I s...

blippy

You could just measure it with a multimeter as it should be idle high Aha, that's useful. That voltage came out at 4.05V, which I assume is still too high. Sigh, well that was a waste of a couple of quid from China! Fortunately, I've got a Plan B. I have an ESP32, which operates on 3V3. So with a l...

blippy

I recently got an USB to TTL232 module. I suddenly realised that I have no clue about voltages. I'd like to connect the device's RX and TX pins to the appropriate GPIO pins on the Pi. I have no idea if that will fry the GPIO pins, though. What's the answer? The chip is a CH340C. I'm assuming that VC...

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I'm still very much a beginner when it comes to MCUs. I have so much to learn. The STM32s and ESP32s are astonishingly cheap and powerful compared to Arduino range. I can see why Unos and Nanos are so popular, though. They're vastly more accessible. I had toyed with the idea of using an ATTiny85 chi...

blippy

I did a little write-up on building an "oscilloscope" with raspberry pi and an stm32. It's a bit too big to post here, but here's a lnk: https://mcturra2000.wordpress.com/2020/ ... and-stm32/.

blippy

LdB wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 14, 2020 12:26 pm
Generally you don't read anything in the destination until the DMA transfer complete is signaled.
If you just launch a DMA transfer and then go read the destination memory immediately unless the transfer is really small you are pretty much guaranteed to read junk.

Ah, thank you!

blippy

This question isn't Pi specific, it's more of a general question about DMA. I'm a noob to the concept of DMA, so bear with me. It's difficult to know where to ask such a question, though. Suppose an MCU implements an ADC, for example. My understanding is that it takes several clock cycles for the MC...

blippy

Interesting links. Thanks for that.

blippy

The version of BASIC I've adopted is very very ... basic! It was originally written in 1976, way before Basic.Net. TinyBasic now supports loading and saving files! I've test it under QEMU using a premade image. There are utilities in the project for doing this, but I need to document them. PS I did ...

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macload1 wrote: ↑
Thu Feb 27, 2020 2:41 pm
the FreeRTOS port located here: https://github.com/macload1/RPiFreeRTOSuGFX

Thanks for the link.

blippy

@blippy Thanks. I heard of rump kernels for the first time now. I did some quick reading. The concept is interesting, but I'm not sure, if there is still much activity in this project? I did read somewhere that the guy abandoned it to brew beer. I'm sure there's more to it than that, though. I'll b...

blippy

This sample works with USB mass-storage devices (e.g. flash drives) only. For SD card access have a look on addon/SDCard or addon/fatfs. Both have a sample subdirectory. Thanks. I checked out your suggestion, and it works! Circle is impressive. I'm glad I didn't have to write all this stuff myself....

blippy

@rst. I'm trying out sample/15-files on real hardware. It reports

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Partition not found: usmd1-1

I'm just trying to access the first partition (i.e. VFAT) on the SD card.

I also tried PARTITION umsd1-0, but that didn't work either.

blippy

This is just so cool :-) BASIC was the first language I've learned. Thanks! Most of the kudos goes to https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=66812 who has basically done all of the heavy lifting by putting an OS in place that can be built upon. I had in mind a kind...

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I implemented a very rough-and-ready version of BASIC for rst's excellent Circle OS. I did this via a fork, as I haven't yet figured out how to create a build environment that's separate from rst's work. The git repo is available at https://github.com/blippy/circle . Go to subdirectory sample/40-tin...

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You should be able to use a cross toolchain from here on your Ubuntu. Thanks for that. I went ahead with your suggestion, and it works fine. I'm glad I followed it, because I get better build times that way. Plus it's a more convenient solution, too. I've managed to get my UK keyboard working, too,...

blippy

Thanks for being interested in Circle! You're welcome. I've got a cool idea for a project. I managed to get your version of qemu working on Ubuntu 18.10. 18.10 is out of support now, so I can't install the cross-platform compiler. But I can compile circle on my Pi3. So I compile it on Pi3 and run i...

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Building the custom version of qemu is difficult. There are some warnings that cause the build to bail out. So I did ../configure --disable-werror --target-list=arm-softmmu Now I'm getting: LINK arm-softmmu/qemu-system-arm /usr/bin/ld: cpus.o: in function `icount_warp_rt': /home/pi/Documents/qemu/cp...

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QEMU? I compiled compiled the 03-screentext example from Circle. My Rules.mk reads as follows: AARCH ?= 32 RASPPI ?= 2 PREFIX ?= arm-none-eabi- PREFIX64 ?= aarch64-none-elf- I build the project, transfer it to a SD card, boot, and it works! Now I'm trying to get it to work via qemu. I did fallocate ...

blippy

One word for you: AWESOME

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