NAME¶

MesaFlash - utility to flash Mesa Electronics FPGA Cards

SYNOPSIS¶

mesaflash [options] [commands]

DESCRIPTION¶

mesaflash Read, write, configure Mesa Electronics FPGA cards.

OPTIONS¶

--device name

Select active device name. If no command is given it will detect board with given name and print info about it.

The special values "ETHER", "SPI" and "AUTO" will attempt to detect a device on ethernet, SPI, or any interface; --addr still needs to be specified for non-PCI devices.

--addr [ip]|[device]

Use ip or device name to look for <name> (IP address for Ethernet boards, serial device name for USB boards and serial boards, SPI device name for SPI boards)

--addr_hi

Set the high register address for the EPP interface.

--epp

Use EPP interface to connect to board, only for boards with multiple interfaces (7c80, 7c81, 7i43, 7i90, 7i64).

--usb

Use USB interface to connect to board, only for boards with multiple interfaces (7c80, 7c81, 7i43, 7i90, 7i64).

--spi

Use SPI interface to connect to board, only for boards with multiple interfaces (7c80, 7c81, 7i43, 7i90, 7i64).

--serial

Use serial interface to connect to board, only for boards with multiple interfaces (7i43, 7i90, 7i64).

--fallback

Use the fallback area of the FLASH memory while executing commands.

--recover

Access board using PCI bridge GPIO (currently only 6I24/6I25).

--xml

Format output from 'readhmid' command into XML.

--dbname# name

Set daughter board name to 'name' for FPGA connector 'N'. Allows readhmid to include daughterboard terminal names, where # can be in the range 1 to 6 (1 means first FPGA connector).

--verbose

Print detailed information while running commands.

COMMANDS¶

--write filename

Writes a standard bitfile 'filename' configuration to the userarea of the FLASH memory (IMPORTANT! 'filename' must be VALID FPGA configuration file).

--fix-boot-block

If a write operation does not detect a valid boot block, write one.

--no-auto-verify

Don't automatically verify after writing.

--verify filename

Verifies the FLASH memory configuration against the bitfile 'filename'.

--program filename

Writes a standard bitfile 'filename' configuration to the FPGA (IMPORTANT! 'filename' must be VALID FPGA configuration file).

--backup-flash filename|dirname

Backup all content the FLASH memory to the file 'filename' or to the directory 'dirname' with auto naming dump file.

--restore-flash filename

Restore all content the FLASH memory from a file 'filename' (IMPORTANT! Can't use a dump file from different types of boards. Unacceptable interrupt the restoring process. If the restoring process was interrupted, do not turn off the board power and do not reload board, and run restore process again). Required SHA256 checksum file 'filename.sha256'.

--sha256-check

Integrity check FPGA configuration bitfile before writing. Required SHA256 checksum file 'filename.sha256'.

--readhmid

Print hostmot2 configuration in PIN file format.

--print-pd

Print hostmot2 Pin Descriptors.

--reload

Do full FPGA reload from FLASH memory (only Ethernet, SPI and PCI boards).

--reset

Do full firmware reset (only Ethernet and serial boards).

--sserial

Print full information about all sserial remote boards.

--rpo address

Read hostmot2 variable directly at 'address'.

--wpo address value

Write hostmot2 variable directly at 'address' with 'value'.

--setip="n.n.n.n"

Set board IP address in EEPROM memory to n.n.n.n (only Ethernet boards).

--info filename

Print info about configuration in 'filename'.

--help

Print the help message

BUGS¶

No known bugs.

AUTHOR¶

LinuxCNC Developer Community <emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net>

Michael Geszkiewicz <micges@wp.pl>

Peter Wallace <tech@mesanet.com>

COPYRIGHT¶

GNU GPL v2+ License

Copyright (c) 2020 Sebastian Kuzminsky

Copyright (c) 2019 Peter Wallace

Copyright (c) 2013-2015 Michael Geszkiewicz