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QNX® Momentics® 6.3.2 x86 BIOS BSP 1.0.0 Release Notes

QNX® Momentics® 6.3.2 x86 BIOS BSP 1.0.0 Release Notes

Date of this edition: September 11, 2007

Target OS: This BSP is compatible with targets that are running QNX® Neutrino® 6.3.2.

Host OS: In order to install this BSP, you must have installed QNX Momentics 6.3.2 on one of the following hosts:

  • Microsoft Windows Vista, XP SP2, or 2000 SP4
  • QNX® Neutrino® 6.3.2
  • Linux Red Hat Enterprise Workstation 4 or 5, Red Hat Fedora Core 6 or 7, Ubuntu 6.0.6 LTS or 7.0.4, or SUSE 10

Boards supported: X86 boards with a BIOS

Caution:
  • The purpose of this BSP is to provide source code for the most common x86 drivers necessary to boot QNX Neutrino on an x86 board with BIOS. Due to the variety of x86 boards available, this generic BSP might require modifications to run on a particular x86 board. However it should allow you to boot QNX Neutrino on most x86 boards.
  • Since this is a generic BSP, its documentation has been kept very generic too. We assume that you're familiar with your board settings, connection/communication methods and booting mechanisms. Therefore these items will not be explained in detail in the documentation.
Note:
  • For information on installing this BSP, see the installation note.
  • For the most up-to-date version of these release notes, go to our website (www.qnx.com), log into your myQNX account, and then go to the Download area.

Contents

Throughout this document, you may see reference numbers associated with particular issues, changes, etc. When corresponding with our Technical Support staff about a given issue, please quote the relevant reference number. You might also find the reference numbers useful for tracking issues as they become fixed.

What's in this BSP?

This BSP contains:

  • binary components
  • source code
  • documentation

Binary components

  • Startup (included with the OS)
  • Serial driver (Included with the OS)
  • PCI server (included with the OS)
    Note: The binary portion of this BSP contains documentation only since the BSP binaries are already included by default in QNX Momentics 6.3.0 SP1.

Source code

  • Startup
  • Serial driver
  • PCI server server
  • Flash driver

Documentation

  • X86 BIOS Board Support Package readme (HTML)

Each BSP guide contains board-specific information and instructions on building an OS image for that particular board.

Location of source and documentation

When you install BSPs, you'll find the source code in $QNX_TARGET\usr\src\archives\qnx\ on Windows, and in $QNX_TARGET/usr/src/archives/qnx/ on QNX Neutrino and Linux.

You can read the documentation (including release notes) in the Integrated Development Environment's help system on all host OSs; on self-hosted QNX Neutrino systems, you can also read it in the Photon helpviewer, or you can use a web browser to display:

${QNX_TARGET}/usr/help/product/momentics/bookset.html

This "roadmap" page contains links to the various HTML booksets that accompany the OS (e.g. System Architecture, QNX Neutrino Programmer's Guide, Library Reference, Utilities Reference, etc.).

Known issues for this BSP

Note: Please check the version of these release notes on the website for the most up-to-date information.
  • In Microsoft Windows, certain programs (e.g. Norton Ghost) add directories inside double quotation marks (e.g. ...;"c:\Program Files\Norton Ghost\";...) to your PATH environment variable. This causes the Cygwin spawn() function to fail, which in turn causes cp to fail when called by ln-w. (Ref# 20046)

    Workaround: Modify your PATH environment variable and remove any quotation marks.

  • In those instances where the the ROM monitor's MAC address is different from the one you pass in when running io-net, the host can cache the ROM monitor's address. This can result in a loss of connectivity.

    Workaround: If you need to specify a MAC address to io-net, we recommend that you use the same MAC address that the ROM monitor uses. This will ensure that if the host caches the ROM monitor's MAC address, you'll still be able to communicate with the target. Otherwise you might need to delete the target's arp entry on your host.

Technical support

If you have any questions, comments, or problems with a QNX product, please contact Technical Support. For more information, see the How to Get Help chapter of the Welcome to QNX Momentics guide or visit our website, www.qnx.com.