Configure a VME Host
A VME host, normally, is inserted in a VME crate, and it server as a VME Master in the bus. In order to communicate with the card, you will need the kernel driver and Etherbone library (for VME to be developed).
RIO-VME CPU
TBD
Mikro Elektronik CPU
The card has two RJ45 Ports. The upper Port is a serial Port the lower is a gigbit ethernet. The Reset switch is a lemo, without a fitting cable it is not possible to reset the board.
Setup
- Directly Connect via serial cable to a PC (factory serial configuration is 9600,8,n,1).
- Set in Main->Advanced BIOS: Intel boot agent gigabit ethernet as a first Boot device is the network.
- Set in Main -> Special Features: Serial console to 115200 baud
For the booting of the cpu set up a PXE network booting
VME bus Driver
The PCI-VME bridge, tsi148, requires a driver that is not part of the vanilla kernel. It has been developed at cern and there have been efforts to integrate it into vanilla. It is not merged into 2.6.33.
git clone git://repo.or.cz/tsi148vmebridge.git
make -C $(KERNEL_HEADER) M=$(pwd)