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    • RE: Baremetal peripheral interaction via the SDSP

      Thanks for responding. Is this proprietary code the Qualcom Hexagon SDK?

      I'm already building the DSP code with QuRT, but it's unclear how to do the system calls in order to interact with the devices.

      For example, i've tried this to blink a LED:

      int fd; 
      fd = open("/sys/class/gpio/gpio1182/value", O_WRONLY);
      if (fd == -1) {
          FARF(ALWAYS,"Unable to open /sys/class/gpio/gpio1182/value");
          qurt_thread_exit(QURT_EOK);
      }
      
      // Toggle LED 50 ms on, 50ms off, 100 times (10 seconds)
      
      for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
          if (write(fd, "1", 1) != 1) {
              FARF(ALWAYS,"Error writing to /sys/class/gpio/gpio1182/value");
              qurt_thread_exit(QURT_EOK);
          }
          qurt_timer_sleep(50000);
      
          if (write(fd, "0", 1) != 1) {
              FARF(ALWAYS,"Error writing to /sys/class/gpio/gpio1182/value");
              qurt_thread_exit(QURT_EOK);
          }
          qurt_timer_sleep(50000);
      }
      
      close(fd);
      

      It builds and runs but nothing happens.

      as for the SPI, the hexagon system libraries don't contain headers for <sys/ioctrl.h>. I noticed in the PX4, the headers are defined in the DSPAL, and the implementation is in dspal_imp.c (https://gitlab.com/voxl-public/flight-core-px4/px4-firmware-ci/-/blob/v1.4.20-modalai-rb5-flight-beta/platforms/qurt/src/px4/common/dspal_impl.c), but are just stubs?

      posted in Software Development
      Alexandre PabouctsidisA
      Alexandre Pabouctsidis
    • Baremetal peripheral interaction via the SDSP

      Hello,

      In order to get a better grasp of the voxl2 module, i'm trying to develop a very basic test code from scratch, starting from the qualcom demo code + inspiration from the PX4 cmake, etc.

      I've reached the stage where I can build the ARM app + DSP lib, load it on the DSP and run it.

      I'm now trying to interact with the SPI+USART+GPIO(?) peripherals. I've spent countless hours digging through the px4 code base, dspal, etc. but I'm having trouble finding the absolute low level code which actually interacts with the peripheral/HW.

      Could someone show me where in the code base is the actual implementation of the SPI or USART transfer (and not just one of the many, many hardware abstractions 😛 )

      After following the chain, the lowest i got is that the spi/usart functions are passed to the _muorb__slpi module, which are initialized through "px4muorb_orb_initialize", which should be called by the apps processor? but i can't find any instance of where it's done. etc.

      The first goal is to read the whoami register of the icm, without any of the HALs (dspal, etc.)

      Thanks for the help!
      Alex

      posted in Software Development
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      Alexandre Pabouctsidis