OpenSDA s32k144evb Linux Ubuntu 20.04 port not found

[alexalexandrov]

S32 IDE for ARM can't detect Open SDA port in settings. I've installed libusb driver from PEMicro, but nothing was changed.

DMESG output:

[  489.635911] FAT-fs (sdc1): unable to read boot sector to mark fs as dirty
[  495.353667] usb 1-10: new full-speed USB device number 8 using xhci_hcd
[  495.503381] usb 1-10: New USB device found, idVendor=1357, idProduct=0089, bcdDevice= 8.00
[  495.503387] usb 1-10: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=3, SerialNumber=5
[  495.503390] usb 1-10: Product: OpenSDA Hardware
[  495.503394] usb 1-10: Manufacturer: P&E Microcomputer Systems Inc.
[  495.503396] usb 1-10: SerialNumber: SDA8721CE0E
[  495.509318] cdc_acm 1-10:1.0: ttyACM0: USB ACM device
[  495.510367] usb-storage 1-10:1.3: USB Mass Storage device detected
[  495.510660] scsi host6: usb-storage 1-10:1.3
[  496.530062] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access     FSL      FSL/PEMICRO MSD  0001 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
[  496.530287] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[  496.530683] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] 1983999 512-byte logical blocks: (1.02 GB/969 MiB)
[  496.530826] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
[  496.530828] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
[  496.530994] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Asking for cache data failed
[  496.530997] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
[  496.571612]  sdc: sdc1
[  496.582750] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk

Output of PE console:

sudo ./pegdbserver_console -showhardware

P&E GDB Server for Arm(R) devices, Version 7.81.00.00
Copyright 2018, P&E Microcomputer Systems Inc, All rights reserved

Loading library /home/alex/Applications/NXP/eclipse/plugins/com.pemicro.debug.gdbjtag.pne_4.4.6.201912192052/lin/gdi/unit_ngs_arm_internal.so ... Done.

Command line arguments: -showhardware

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What's wrong with it?

[thosewhowish2b]

Hello,

For me this turned out to be a path, or 64b vs 32b issue: P&E has an installation script that copies the USB driver to /usr/lib64 if the folder exists. Instead, I tried copying the driver to /usr/lib. After refreshing the ports in S32DS, it appears! Like magic! The driver file is the "libp64-0.1.so.4" available at ~/NXP/S32DS.3.4/Drivers/PnE/drivers/libusb_64_32/.

I think it is worth mentioning that initially the arm-none-eabi-gdb refused to work for lack of a libmpfr.so.4.
(I only found this out when tracking down and running the software in ~/NXP/S32DS.3.4/S32DS/tools/gdb-arm/arm32-eabi/bin, Eclipse would just throw a dumb error.)
The solution was to create a symbolic link from libmpfr.so.6 to libmpfr.so.4 under /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu, as in the answer below:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51288467/cannot-open-libmpfr-so-4-after-update-on-ubuntu-18-04

Also, NXP devboards have very dodgy tactile switches! I couldn't enter BOOTLOADER mode in OpenSDA because SW5 just won't close contact! At least 2 of the 4 on the board are broken.

Also worth checking if your board is somewhat older (didn't work for me, because of the above):

https://mcuoneclipse.com/2013/09/02/the-freescale-opensda-trap-no-device-available-or-something-like...

https://mcuoneclipse.com/2013/12/14/new-pe-opensda-firmware-v114/

[This is the second attempt at posting, first I spent some 20 minutes writing the answer, just to get it thrown away because I was redirected to login after clicking post. Thanks NXP, just one more frustration among so many.]

[Joao_Roscoe]

Guess what? This did the trick. Thanks a lot for sharing!

Joao

[martingebov]

Worked like magic !!

Thanks

[martingebov]

I am facing the same issue as well. Do you know when it will be supported ?

[jiri_kral]

Hi,

unfortunately - Ubuntu 20.04 is not supported by S32DS. You can try to install PE Micro drivers manually 

 PEmicro | Experts in Embedded tools for Flash Programming and Development  

Officially supported and tested Ubuntu version is Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. On ubuntu 18.04 S32DS also works (but is not tested).

Jiri