i.MX6SoloLite Evaluation Kit and EPDC testing

[jayakumar2]

Hi,

I've been able to get my i.mx6sl-evk with EPD daughter card booting up to the shell using the ltib output. I rebuilt the kernel to add the panel driver in the config. After that, I did:

setenv bootargs console=ttymxc0,115200 root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rootwait video=mxcepdcfb:E060SCM,bpp=16

and then after getting to the console, I did:

root@freescale ~$ find / -name \*epd\*

/lib/firmware/imx/epdc_E97_V110.fw

/lib/firmware/imx/epdc_E60_V110.fw

/lib/firmware/imx/epdc_E060SCM.fw

/lib/firmware/imx/epdc_Exx_ROGUE.fw

/lib/firmware/imx/epdc_E60_V220.fw

/lib/modules/3.0.35-2666-gbdde708/kernel/drivers/video/mxc/mxc_epdc_fb.ko

/sys/devices/platform/imx_epdc_fb

/sys/bus/platform/devices/imx_epdc_fb

insmod /lib/modules/3.0.35-2666-gbdde708/kernel/drivers/video/mxc/mxc_epdc_fb.ko

Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 100x37

root@freescale ~$ imx_epdc_fb imx_epdc_fb: Unsuccessfully received channel!!!!

imx_epdc_fb imx_epdc_fb: PxP chan init failed

imx_epdc_fb imx_epdc_fb: Unable to submit PxP update task.

I saw the panel flash a bit and it looks clear white. The error message above about chan init failed makes me suspicious whether it will work correctly.

root@freescale ~$ fbset -i

mode "800x600-0"

    # D: 0.037 MHz, H: 0.041 kHz, V: 0.067 Hz

    geometry 800 600 800 1280 16

    timings 26666667 8 100 4 8 4 1

    rgba 5/11,6/5,5/0,0/0

endmode

Frame buffer device information:

    Name        : mxc_epdc_fb

    Address     : 0x8a400000

    Size        : 2179072

    Type        : PACKED PIXELS

    Visual      : TRUECOLOR

    XPanStep    : 1

    YPanStep    : 1

    YWrapStep   : 0

    LineLength  : 1600

    Accelerator : No

So now I'm looking for some tools with which I can test the EPD panel. Meaning draw some stuff to the panel. I found the following document:

https://community.freescale.com/docs/DOC-93622

But the tools mentioned in that document like:

$ cd /unit_tests

$ ./mxc_epdc_fb_test.out

do not seem to be present.

I had done:

./ltib -m prep -p imx-test

./ltib -m scbuild -p imx-test

and on the target rootfs I can see:

ls rootfs/unit_tests/

all-suite.txt           autorun-mmc-fs.sh    autorun-usb-gadget.sh  check_minor_open.out       etm                           mxc_iim_test.out       mxc_tve_test.sh         wdt_driver_test.out

ar3k-bt-start.sh        autorun-mmc-mkfs.sh  autorun-usb-host.sh    check_mixer.out            hciattach-ar3k.bin            mxc_irlan_test.sh      mxc_uart_test.out

autorun-ata.sh          autorun-mmc.sh       autorun-v4l2.sh        check_recording.out        memtool                       mxc_keyb_test.sh       mxc_uart_xmit_test.out

...

autorun-mmc-fdisk.sh

autorun-sound.sh

check_ioctls.out

dump-clocks.sh

mxc_i2c_test_usb.out

mxc_tuner_test.sh

test-utils.sh

but no epdc test. It seems like it is in the source but is not getting built:

lucid@ubuntu:~/6sl/ltib$ find /home/lucid/6sl/ltib/rpm/BUILD/imx-test-3.0.35-4.1.0/test/ -name \*epdc\*

/home/lucid/6sl/ltib/rpm/BUILD/imx-test-3.0.35-4.1.0/test/mxc_x11_test/mxc_epdc_x11_fb_test.c

/home/lucid/6sl/ltib/rpm/BUILD/imx-test-3.0.35-4.1.0/test/mxc_fb_test/mxc_epdc_fb_test.c

I haven't yet seen how to get these tests added to the build.

Thanks,

jaya

[jayakumar2 · Accepted solution]

I was able to solve this by adding the kernel header include to the imx-test spec file which was why several of the tests were failing to get built.