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QNX® Momentics® 6.2.1 PE Motorola PQ2FADS (8270/8280) BSP Installation Note

QNX® Momentics® 6.2.1 PE

Motorola PQ2FADS (8270/8280) BSP

Installation Note

Date of this edition: June 17, 2004

Target OS: QNX® Neutrino® 6.2.1 Patch B with Supplemental Release

Host OS: Microsoft Windows 2K SP4, XP; Sun Solaris 2.8; QNX® Neutrino® 6.2.1B

Board(s) supported: PQ2FADS-ZU

For the latest information about this BSP, see the release notes.
Never use the QNX Software Installer through a phditto/phrelay session, because:
  • the installer can't detect multiple instances of itself through a phditto/phrelay session
  • when running the reboot script, the installer can try to shut down the system, but it doesn't know how to shut down phditto/phrelay sessions properly (phshutdown, which you normally use to reboot, does know how to handle these sessions).

Contents...

What's in this BSP?

Two BSP bundles are available:

  • Binary bundle, which contains:
    • Binary package
    • Documentation package
  • Source bundle, which contains the binary and docs packages, as well as:
    • Source code package
The source bundle requires a license.

Binary package contents

  • IPL
  • Startup
  • Serial driver
  • Flash filesystem driver (FFSV3)
  • Ethernet driver
  • PCI server.

Source code package contents

  • IPL
  • Startup
  • Serial driver
  • Flash filesystem driver (FFSV3)
  • Ethernet driver
  • PCI server.

Documentation package contents

  • Motorola 8270/8280 ADS BSP readme (HTML)

Installation

Before you install this BSP, you must have already installed QNX Momentics PE 6.2.1B or later on a supported host.

To install this BSP:

  1. Start by downloading the appropriate QPR file:

    PQ2FADS-src-621B.qpr (source bundle)

    or:

    PQ2FADS-bin-621B.qpr (binary bundle)

  2. Remember the name of the directory that you downloaded the package into.

Windows and QNX Neutrino hosts

To install this BSP on Windows and QNX Neutrino hosts:

  1. Launch the QNX Installer and input the path to the downloaded package.
  2. Select the Motorola 8270/8280 BSP package(s), then click Install.
  3. Follow the instructions on your screen.

Note that you can also run the installer from the command line. For example: 

qnxinstall download-dir/PQ2FADS-src-621B.qpr

Solaris hosts

To install this BSP on a Solaris host:

  1. Run cl-installer.
  2. Type i to install. When prompted to select a repository to open, choose o (to open an "other" repository).
  3. Enter the path to the downloaded package (i.e. the .qpr file).
  4. Select the Motorola 8270/8280 BSP package(s).

Documentation

Assuming you've installed your development suite, you'll find an extensive set of online documentation in HTML format. The "roadmap" page contains links to the various HTML booksets that accompany the OS (e.g. System Architecture, Programmer's Guide, Library Reference, Utilities Reference, etc.).

You can find the docs for all BSPs under:

${QNX_TARGET}/usr/help/product/bsp_en/

Technical support

If you have any questions, comments, or problems with a QNX product, we recommend that you use our support forums available from our news server, news://inn.qnx.com.

Since QNX developers and support staff frequent our newsgroups, you should find them to be your best avenue of support for solving problems.