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I'm not sure if tkj means oocd problems, Tectu. The debugging chain itself should be virtually identical between FreeRTOS and ChibiOS. Also the Olimex E407 is fully supported by ChibiOS - I cannot see how any other RTOS can be more easy. I have never used FreeRTOS, so I'd very much appreciate feedback by tkj why he finds FreeRTOS easier.
DeusExMachina wrote:I tried to mix ARMCM4-STM32F407-LWIP with STM32F407-DISCOVERY demos using Thomas connections layout, but I cant win I think it's worth to create STM32F407-DISCOVERY-LWIP demo in Chibios distribution, but I am afraid it's too complicated task for me.
It should actually not be so hard. Keep trying - you will learn a lot from it.
Start from the default F4DISCOVERY board file.
Check which media interface you need, probably RMII which uses a 50MHz clock for its databus
Check where you need to generate the 50MHz. Some Ethernet boards have their own generator.
Assign the pins in the map file. Remember to use the correct alternate IO.
Maybe you need to desolder some conflicting chips.
Add your MAC chip to your board file - it is used by the mac driver to autodetect your mac.
Debug your mac startup. The driver is nicely written. By finding where it fails, you will get insight what is still wrong.
Spend 2 days and few less hair -> You will *definitly* have a working project afterwards.
The LWIP and Ethernet stuff can be used *directly* from the other demo. There is nothing specific to it.
@mabl, I definitely don't think FreeRTOS is any easier than ChbiOS. But for now I can only get debugging with our J-link and using CooCox to work with FreeRTOS. But if it worked for ChibiOS I would definitely use that too!
@tki: If you like you can open a new topic about your issues. I used JLink with the Segger gdbserver and openocd - both worked fine for me and ChibiOS. Your troubles should be easy to solve.
mabl wrote:@tki: If you like you can open a new topic about your issues. I used JLink with the Segger gdbserver and openocd - both worked fine for me and ChibiOS. Your troubles should be easy to solve.
To me the debugging of ChibiOS also worked in the beginning (demo projects). But when I started filling my own code and threads into the project it suddenly stopped working.
After some issues I've got working stm32f4discovery with DP83848. Thanks for mabl and tkj! I got ARMCM4-STM32F407-LWIP demo, changed link to ST_STM32F4_DISCOVERY board. After, I thoroughly checked board.h, assigning right alternate function values according datasheet.
DeusExMachina wrote:After some issues I've got working stm32f4discovery with DP83848. Thanks for mabl and tkj! I got ARMCM4-STM32F407-LWIP demo, changed link to ST_STM32F4_DISCOVERY board. After, I thoroughly checked board.h, assigning right alternate function values according datasheet.
Great! I'm sure you also learnt a lot Maybe upload your working project files here. Then somebody else can build upon your work.
I think it's worth to create STM32F407-DISCOVERY-LWIP demo in Chibios distribution, but I am afraid it's too complicated task for me.
Maybe upload your working project files here. Then somebody else can build upon your work.