Update the MIPS Creator CI20 board documentation to include a detailed
peripherals support table. This replaces the basic bulleted list with
comprehensive status details for CPU cores, RAM, Display, Ethernet,
GPIO, TRNG, Timers, UART0, USB Host, and Watchdog.
Signed-off-by: Lwazi Dube <lwazeh@gmail.com>
Remove the manual mkimage step because CONFIG_UBOOT_UIMAGE=y already
generates a valid uImage. This brings the documentation up to date
with the uImage usage that was already standard in practice.
Add EHCI and OHCI USB host drivers for the Ingenic JZ4780 SoC, derived
from the existing sama5 implementation.
Additionally, introduce the display controller driver using code ported
from FreeBSD under its original license terms. Note that this driver
lacks EDID support and is currently hardcoded to 1360x768.
Update the linker script memory layout to utilize the full 256 MiB RAM,
excluding the 8 MiB reserved at the top of memory for the framebuffer.
Signed-off-by: Lwazi Dube <lwazeh@gmail.com>
Introduce networking capabilities to the Creator CI20 board by leveraging
the pre-existing dm9000 ethernet driver.
To achieve this, the following changes were made:
- Integrated the jz4780 GPIO module to properly configure and enable the
interrupt pin required by the ethernet controller.
- Added `dm90x0.h` to export the dm9000 initialization function, allowing
the board-specific setup code to initialize the network interface.
Signed-off-by: Lwazi Dube <lwazeh@gmail.com>
This commit introduces a rudimentary architecture and board port for the
MIPS Creator CI20, featuring the dual core Ingenic JZ4780 SoC (MIPS32).
Included in this initial implementation:
- Basic architectural initialization and startup code for the JZ4780 Core 0.
- Minimal configuration required to execute from RAM.
- Early UART/serial console support for basic debugging and NSH output.
- Minimal board-specific configuration for the CI20 target.
- Console output is routed via UART0 on the expansion header.
This establishes basic support for running NuttX on the MIPS CI20.
Further peripherals, optimization, and extended documentation are left for
future iterations or community contributions.
Build and Runtime Deployment Info:
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The baseline can be configured, compiled using the MIPS MTI toolchain,
and loaded via U-Boot using the following commands (replace
<tftp_dir> with your local TFTP root directory).
./tools/configure.sh -l ci20/nsh
make CROSSDEV=mips-mti-elf-
mkimage -A mips -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0x80000180 -e 0x800004ac \
-n "nx" -d nuttx.bin <tftp_dir>/nuttx.umg
Note: U-Boot must be properly configured for networking (e.g., valid ipaddr,
serverip, and ethaddr environment variables) to fetch the image over TFTP.
Run this from U-Boot prompt:
tftp nuttx.umg && bootm $fileaddr
Signed-off-by: Lwazi Dube <lwazeh@gmail.com>
BREAKING: In an effort to simplify NuttX initialization, NSH_ARCHINIT is
removed. board_app_initialize is also removed. BOARD_LATE_INITIALIZE now
performs all board initialization logic, and is by default enabled. All
references to these symbols are removed. BOARDIOC_INIT remains, but will
result in -ENOTTY when called. It is to be removed in a later commit.
Quick fix: Boards relying on NSH_ARCHINIT should now enable
CONFIG_BOARD_LATE_INITIALIZE instead. If the application needs
fine-grained control over board initialization from userspace, the logic
performed by BOARDIOC_INIT may be copied to the board_finalinitialize
function and used instead via BOARDIOC_FINALINIT. All
board_app_initialize logic provided by NuttX is now moved to
board_late_initialize, and the same should be done for out-of-tree
boards.
Signed-off-by: Matteo Golin <matteo.golin@gmail.com>
- migrated /README are removed from /boards
- there are a lot of READMEs that should be further converted to rst.
At the moment they are moved to Documentation/platforms and included in rst files
