When the frames on a FQ are ready to be processed, the FQ is enqueued onto a work queue(WQ). WQ are organized into channels. A channel is a fixed, hardware-defined association of 8 work queues, also though of “priority work queues”. There are two types of WQ channels defined in QMAN: Dedicated channels, which are always serviced by a single entity. Pool channels, which are serviced by pool of like entities, such as a pool of processor cores. This document describes the basic concept regarding dedicated and pool channels, how to use dedicated and pool channels in flow order Preservation scenarios, work queue channel assignment, dedicated and pool channel used in Linux Kernel and how to modify PPAC and USDPAA QMAN driver to using dedicated channels in USDPAA applications. 1. Basic Concept of QMAN Channels 2. Dedicated Channel Used in Flow Order Preservation Scenario 3. Pool Channel Used in Order Preservation with Hold Active Scheduling 4. Work Queue Channel Assignment 5. Dedicated and Pool Channels Usage in Linux Kernel 6. Using Dedicated Channel in USDPAA

      A shared-MAC device is one that can be used from two Linux and/or USDPAA partitions. Shared-MAC net device can be used in two scenarios, two or more Linux separate partitions under control of hypervisor(topaz), one Linux and one USDPAA running in the same partition.       1. DPAA Ethernet Driver Types       2. BMan Driver for shared-MAC and MAC-less port       3. QMan Driver for shared-MAC and MAC-less port       4. Running  Shared-MAC between USDPAA and Linux

In a previous document, I went through the basic steps of building SDK 1.3.2 for the first time. Now I'm ready to deploy the images onto my target, a P3041DS system. Fortunately my P3041 already has a U-boot and linux install on it. So I can just try and update the SDK from within U-boot. I boot up my trusty terminal - I use putty, and connect to my local COM port at 115200 baudrate. My Ubuntu server already has a tftp server installed, and I link my images over from the SDK build/deploy/images directory over to the /tftpboot directory. The QorIQ_SDK_Infocenter.pdf document within the install has information on the flash bank usage for the current SDK. Make sure you use the document and flash map from the current SDK, as things change. I ended up with a system that didn't boot when I used the older location for the fman uCode (from SDK 1.x) on the SDK 1.3.2 system. Here is a table from the document that shows the flash map for a couple of the QorIQ DS system. It's important to note here that this covers the NOR flash - which is what I'm currently using. You may want to experiment with using NAND or SPI based flash instead - but for my purposes I'm going to re-image NOR flash. The NOR on these development systems is banked, meaning that the most significant address line is tied to a DIP switch. So I can have multiple images in Flash at one time, and switch between them (especially helpful when I mistakenly corrupt one). I'm currently in bank0 (which is the "current bank" in the table above). From this, I see that the addresses I should be interested in are located at: Name Address rcw 0xe8000000 Linux.uImage 0xe8020000 uBoot 0xeff800000 fman uCode 0xeff40000 device tree 0xe8800000 linux rootfs 0xe9300000 To verify that this is correct, I can dump out my RCW: And I can also dump out my current U-boot (which should always start with an ASCII header identifying it): at this point I can start updating the images directly from my TFTP server. I have my tftp server already defined via the U-boot environment serverip, so I just tftp the U-boot image to a randomly picked address in RAM of 0x100000. The transfer went ok, so I can burn it into flash now. I will first erase the flash starting at 0xeff80000. Since U-boot is 0x80000 size, I'll erase from 0xeff80000 for size 0x80000. Apparently my sectors were protected. So I need to unprotect first, then erase again. And by reading the flash, I verify that it has been erased (erased NOR always reads back all 0xF's) So, now I can burn the flash: I use a binary copy. And then verify that the image was written correctly. Then we go through the same technique with the other images. I'll burn the fman ucode as well: Then for the actual images and dtb, you have an option of burning them, but I'll tftp them instead. For this I created a U-boot environment variable called ramboot, and point the image names to the paths on my server: At this point I can save the environment to flash via a saveenv command in U-boot. I'll re-boot into the new U-boot to make sure it works (if it doesn't for some reason, I can jump back to a different U-boot I had previously burned in the alternate bank, or else I'll have to use a debugger to re-burn the flash). Then, from within U-boot I can run ramboot, and if all goes well it should fetch the images and boot all the way into the new SDK. Eventually it should boot all the way to a linux prompt.

I recently pulled down SDK 1.3.2 from Freescale's SDK download site and had a chance to try and install it on a P3041DS system I have lying around. There's a lot of info in the ISO, but I thought I'd go through an initial build step by step to document what the flow is. First thing to note is that there is more than one ISO image available. I already have a Ubuntu lucid machine, that I use as a build machine. So I didn't need the virtual images. I'll need the source file - so I downloaded QorIQ_SDK_V1-3-2_SOURCE_ISO, and I am going to try this on a P3041, so I downloaded the e500mc binary. The binary isn't necessary, but it speeds up the builds significantly. When they've finished downloading, the first thing to do is mount the source ISO Within the source ISO there's an install script. I run that and let it do it's thing. Important to note that there's documentation contained within the document's directory. If you go to documents/START_HERE.html you will get html based documentation on the SDK. And, if you keep drilling down and go to documents/sdk_documentation/pdf there are some pdf documents for various features. The document QorIQ_SDK_Infocenter.pdf is a complete collection of the SDK documentation taken from the Freescale infocenter site. Once, the source is install, I do the same for the binary. Make sure you install the binary on top of the source (i.e. in the same directory). We then call the FSL poky script - which sets up the build. In this command the -m tells it what machine you're going to build to. -j indicates the number of jobs for make to spawn, and -t is how many bitbake tasks to be run in parallel. At this point I'm ready to build. I have some options for which image I want to build - I'll go with the core image, which contains some of the more common packages. So, at this point I need to make sure I'm in the build_p3041ds_release directory, and issue the command bitbake fsl-image-core which initiates the build process. When all is said and done, I can find my images in the build_p3041ds_release/tmp/demply/images directory. In my case, I have quite a few images because I've actually built the core and full images. Next, I have to grab these images and deploy them to my target.

If I don’t use the USB interface in the 3041, can I leave USBx_VDD_3P3 and USBx_VDD_1P0 pins not connected? In P4040 they are reserve with note do not connect. Can they be connected to 3.3V and 1.0V respectively? USB_VDD_1P0 must be tied to 1V or the platform voltage (based on whatever the SOC core digital power supply is). USB_VDD_3P3 can be left floating. If I don’t use USB, is it safe to leave USBx_IBIAS_REXT and USBx_VDD_1P8_DECAP unconnected? If USB is not to be used at all, keep the following USB signals floating : USB1_IBIAS_REXT, USB2_IBIAS_REXT, USB1_VDD_1P8_DECAP and USB2_VDD_1P8_DECAP, USB1_VDD_3P3, USB2_VDD_3P3.

What is requirement for the voltage ripple of DDR3 controller MVref? The nominal value of MVref is 1.5V. 1%, +/- 7.5mV is the tolerance value for MVref (ripple range). Can you please explain the RDRVR resistance for DDR3 SDRAM memory interface? RDRVR is the "Driver" resistance. It is the resistance at the driver side. Half strength is ~40 ohms and full strength is ~20 ohms. How can I determine the power rating of the resistor connected to MDIC0 and MDIC1 for both half strength and full strength? The MDIC resistors connected to MDIC [0:1] signals used for either full or half drive strength calibration do not draw much current. So you can use 1/16W rated resistors for either half or full drive calibration.

The SGMII SerDes of the 3041 can operate at either 1.25G or 2.5G. Is there a register to configure this or it just depends on the clock multipliers of the SerDes PLL? As long as you select the RCW settings for SRDS_PRTCL and the DIV and RATIO settings to select the clock speed, the SerDes registers will default to the correct value based on those RCW settings. Does P3041 SerDes in XAUI mode support 10GBase-CX4 (IEEE802.3 clause54)? In other words, are SerDes XAUI receivers and transmitters capable of communication over a 15 meter 10GBase-CX4 cable? P3041 is not designed for such long distances. An appropriate 10GBASE-CX4 PHY is needed to support such distances.

I don’t use SDHC, and we use SPI at 2.5V (CVDD=2.5V). In this case for P3041 unused SDHC pins are pulled up to 2.5V. If I want to maintain compatibility with P4040, what happens when unused SDHC pins (SDHC_DATA [0-3], SDHC_CMD) in P4040 are pulled up to 2.5V instead of 3.3V? As long as the pullup on these pins satisfies the minimum Vih of 2.0 V for a 3.3V input then this would be ok. Alternative is to pull to ground. I want to lower the CPU power consumption with make CPU frequency from 1.2GHz to 1 GHz or 800 MHz for P1031 hardware. When P3041core is configured to be 1GHZ/ 800 MHz, what is the core’s power consumption? If you disable L2 cache, you can use 47mW/100MHz per core for lower bins. If L2 is not disabled, then you need to use 65mW/100MHz per core for the lower bin. If I don’t use SDHC, how should I connect the SDHC_DATA and SDHC_CLK? SDHC is output signal and you can leave as NC. It shouldn't matter to either pull-up or pull-down for unused SDHC interfaces. In Freescale P3041_DS schematics, the "HRST" button is connected to the LRST_B signal which is routed to the FPGA. What logic is applied to the LRST_B signal inside the FPGA, and what is the FPGA output signal connected to on the CPU? LRST is one of the Reset sources that is coming from the Pushbutton. It will cause: CPU_PORESET CPU_TRST And Peripheral_reset (PHY_RST_B, GEN_RST_B, SGMII_XAUI_SLOT_RST_B) I do not use Secure Boot feature in my P3014 design. What should I do with Vdd_LP pin? If Secure Boot feature is not to be used, VDD_LP can be left unconnected, but should be tied to GND to reduce noise. I have Nor Flash, Nand Flash, NVRAM and CPLD connected on eLBC with data buffer in between. All devices are in high impedance when not selected. Should the OE of data buffer be connected to GND directly or by using “AND” gate with CS0, CS1…CSn as the OE? It should be “AND”ed with all used CSn to generate the OE. This can prevent any potential data bus conflict. Does access to CCSR & DCSR registers require CoreNet usage in P3041? Can a SEU single-bit error in any CoreNet register prevent further reading from internal config registers? Yes, CCSR/DCSR accesses go through CoreNet. There is no ECC on CCSR internal registers so there is no automatic scrubbing or repair that is possible. So such prevention is not possible.

Routing the DDR Memory Channel To help ensure the DDR interface is properly optimized, Freescale recommends routing the DDR memory channel in this specific order: 1. Data 2. Address/command/control 3. Clocks Note: The address/command, control, and data groups all have a relationship to the routed clock. Therefore, the effective clock lengths used in the system must satisfy multiple relationships. It is recommended that the designer perform simulation and construct system timing budgets to ensure that these relationships are properly satisfied. Routing DDR3 Data Signals The DDR interface data signals (MDQ[0:63], MDQS[0:8], MDM[0:8], and MECC[0:7]) are source-synchronous signals by which memory and the controller capture the data using the data strobe rather than the clock itself. When transferring data, both edges of the strobe are used to achieve the 2x data rate. An associated data strobe (DQS and DQS) and data mask (DM) comprise each data byte lane. This 11-bit signal lane relationship is crucial for routing (see Table 1). When length-matching, the critical item is the variance of the signal lengths within a given byte lane to its strobe. Length matching across all bytes lanes is also important and must meet the t DQSS parameter as specified by JEDEC. This is also commonly referred to as the write data delay window. Typically, this timing is considerably more relaxed than the timing of the individual byte lanes themselves: Table 1: Byte Lane to Data Strobe and Data Mask Mapping Data Data Strobe Data Mask Lane Number MDQ[0:7] MDQS0, MDQS0 MDM0 Lane 0 MDQ[8:15] MDQS1, !MDQS1 MDM1 Lane 1 MDQ[16:23] MDQS2, !MDQS2 MDM2 Lane 2 MDQ[24:31] MDQS3, !MDQS3 MDM3 Lane 3 MDQ[32:39] MDQS4, !MDQS4 MDM4 Lane 4 MDQ[40:47] MDQS5, !MDQS5 MDM5 Lane 5 MDQ[48:55] MDQS6, !MDQS6 MDM6 Lane 6 MDQ[56:63] MDQS7, !MDQS7 MDM7 Lane 7 MECC[0:7] MDQS8, !MDQS8 MDM8 Lane 8 DDR Signal Group Layout Recommendations Table 2 lists the layout recommendations for DDR signal groups and the benefit of following each recommendation: Table 2: DDR Signal groups Layout Recommendations Recommendation Benefit Route each data lane adjacent to a solid ground reference for the entire route to provide the lowest inductance for the return currents Provides the optimal signal integrity of the data interface Note: This concern is especially critical in designs that target the top-end interface speed, because the data switches at 2x the applied clock When the byte lanes are routed, route signals within a byte lane on the same critical layer as they traverse the PCB motherboard to the memories Helps minimize the number of vias per trace and provides uniform signal characteristics for each signal within the data group Alternate the byte lanes on different critical layers Facilitates ease of break-out from the controller perspective, and keeps the signals within the byte group together