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QNX® Momentics® 6.2.1 PE Motorola PQ2FADS (8270/8280) BSP Release Notes

QNX^® Momentics^® 6.2.1 PE

Motorola PQ2FADS (8270/8280) BSP

Release Notes

Date of this edition: June 17, 2004

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

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

Board(s) supported: PQ2FADS-ZU

For information on installing this BSP, see the installation note.

Known issues
Technical support

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Known issues

This BSP now ships with a flash V3 driver and source. If you want to use the flash V2 driver (and you don't have the flash supplemental installed), you will have to do the following:
1. Copy $QNX_TARGET/usr/src/bsp-6.2.1/packages/common/prebuilt/ppcbe/lib/libfs-flash.a to $QNX_TARGET/usr/src/bsp-6.2.1/ppc/pq2fads/prebuilt/ppcbe/lib/.
2. Go to $QNX_TARGET/usr/src/bsp-6.2.1/ppc/pq2fads.
3. Enter:
```
make F3S_VER=2 MTD_VER=1
    
```
There's a known issue in ads.dll.be/variant.c that causes it not to compile, which prevents the PQ2FADS driver from being compiled. To build the network driver from the DDK, create an empty file, named Makefile.dnm in $QNX_TARGET/usr/src/ddk-6.2.1/network/src/hardware/devn/8260ads/ppc/ads.dll.be/.
On Windows hosts, the mkefs utility produces an image that's too large for the flash device. (Ref# 19065)
Workaround:
1. Locate the script called mkflashimage, which was shipped with the PQ2FADS BSP.
2. Edit the mkflashimage file, and replace this line (# 55):
```
mkefs ../src/hardware/ipl/boards/pq2fads/pq2fads.efs >> ipl-ifs-efs-pq2fads.bin
```
  with these three lines:
```
mkefs ../src/hardware/ipl/boards/pq2fads/pq2fads.efs efs-pq2fads
cat efs-pq2fads >> ipl-ifs-efs-pq2fads.bin
rm -f efs-pq2fads
```
3. Save your changes to the mkflashimage file.
4. Rebuild your flash image.

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