User:Rlatinov

Personal Info

Rade Latinovich is a current student at Brookfield Central High School with interests in Computer Science.

Weekly Log

Week 1 (30 May - 4 June)

• Downloaded a new cross-compiler toolchain (aarch64)
• I was able to compile sample code found from https://github.com/gingold-adacore/rpi3-fosdem17, with new cross-compiler
• Modified the sample code to turn on a LED
• Downloaded simple and watered-down version of Xinu (homework tarball)

- Modified startup.S file in order to be able to boot on RPi3 (did not do anything, but it compiled, and LED turned on)

Week 2 (5 June - 9 June)

• Started to narrow down on where the code is not working

- Made sure assembly code (start.S) was able to boot

- Then made sure the assembly code can branch to a C method, or some of our C code

• We were able to make our kernel image boot at the default starting address, this removes the need for us to manually specify where the Pi should boot the image
• Got "Hello World" through mini UART.. (wrong UART)
• Started to work on PL011 UART driver

- Biggest difference between PL011 and mini UART is that mini UART's baud rate is partially determined by systems clock frequency, and PL011 has separate reference clock frequency independent from the system clock.

- PL011 uses reference clock frequency determined by BCM2835 Clock Manager

• We were able to figure out how to control the clock for the GPIO, now we need to do the same thing but for the PL011

Week 3 (12 June - 16 June)