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Brenton Salmi edited this page Dec 6, 2017 · 8 revisions

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TBD

RIOT-OS Tutorial Notes

Installation

  • I needed to enabled virtualization in my BIOS prior to running Vagrant due to the VM for RIOT being 64 bit. RIOT VM kept crashing on bootup after vagrant up and never getting to ssh boot.

Tutorial

Task-01

Easy, self-explanatory.

Task-02

The first part of this task was to create a new echo command handler and was a bit tricky at first but very simple:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

#include "shell.h"

int echo(int argc, char **argv)
{
    /* ... */
    unsigned char i;
    for(i=1; i<argc; i++){
    printf("%s ",argv[i]);
    }
    printf("\n");
    
    return 0;
}

static const shell_command_t commands[] = {
    {"echo", "Returns the supplied text argument", *echo},
    { NULL, NULL, NULL }
};

int main(void)
{
    puts("This is Task-02");

    char line_buf[SHELL_DEFAULT_BUFSIZE];
    shell_run(commands, line_buf, SHELL_DEFAULT_BUFSIZE);
    
    return 0;
}

This was followed by asking to control hardware by importing a board.h and I'm not sure how to do this. I think I need to get either Faraday, an MSP430 launchpad, or other properly being "flashed" from this RIOT-OS compiler, linker, and programmer.

In the RIOT source folder there is already support for both MSP430's (msb-430) and the CC430f6137 as listed in the chronos folder.

vagrant@vagrant:~/Tutorials/RIOT/boards/chronos$ ls include/
board.h  buttons.h  periph_conf.h
  • board.h - General board description and hardware such as timers, clocks, etc...
  • buttons.h - Defines the button port pins in use
  • 'periph_conf.h` - Defines the peripheral device hardware such as UART port pins

Per the RIOT-OS GitHub they recommend a standard mspgcc and mspdebug program use for compiling and programming. https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/wiki/Family:-MSP430

OK I installed gcc-msp430 and mspdebug.

Might want to follow: https://mycontraption.com/programming-the-msp430-launchpad-on-ubuntu/

I need to learn how to:

  • Compile with MSP-GCC
  • Use MSPFET with mspdebug
  • Implement this with RIOT-OS tools

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/43267/msp430-programming-under-linux-mspdebug-fails-to-connect-to-programmer

Hitting some snags...

brent@brent-580-005t:~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 8087:0aa7 Intel Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:0153 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Mass Storage Device
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 2047:0014 Texas Instruments 
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
brent@brent-580-005t:~$ sudo mspdebug uif -jU 1:6
MSPDebug version 0.22 - debugging tool for MSP430 MCUs
Copyright (C) 2009-2013 Daniel Beer <dlbeer@gmail.com>
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Searching for firmware for TI3410...
    - checking /usr/lib//mspdebug/ti_3410.fw.ihex
Loaded 13765 byte firmware image (checksum = 0xb5)
Starting download...
ti3410: warning: can't detach kernel driver: No data available
ti3410: bulk write failed: No such file or directory
ti3410: firmware download failed
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