R-Car/Boards/Salvator-X

= Renesas Salvator-X =

Introduction
This is the Wiki for the Renesas R-Car H3 and M3-W Salvator-X boards (RTP0RC7795SIPB0010S resp. RTP0RC7796SIPB0011S). Refer to the R-Car page for information about Renesas' R-Car SoC family.

Hardware Features

 * R-CAR H3
 * ARM CA57 (ARMv8) 1.5 GHz quad core, with NEON/VFPv4, L1$ I/D 48K/32K, L2$ 2MB
 * ARM CA53 (ARMv8) 1.2 GHz quad core, with NEON/VFPv4, L1$ I/D 32K/32K, L2$ 512K
 * Memory controller for LPDDR4-3200 4GB in 2 channels, each 64-bit wide
 * Two- and three-dimensional graphics engines,
 * Video processing units,
 * 3 channels Display Output,
 * 6 channels Video Input,
 * SD card host interface,
 * USB3.0 and USB2.0 interfaces,
 * CAN interfaces
 * Ethernet AVB
 * PCI Express Interfaces
 * Memories
 * INTERNAL 384KB SYSTEM RAM
 * DDR 4 GB LPDDR4
 * HYPERFLASH 64 MB HYPER FLASH (512 MBITS, 160 MHZ, 320 MBYTES/S)
 * QSPI FLASH 16MB QSPI (128 MBITS,80 MHZ,80 MBYTES/S)1 HEADER QSPI MODULE
 * EMMC 32 GB EMMC (HS400 240 MBYTES/S)
 * MICROSD-CARD SLOT (SDR104 100 MBYTES/S)
 * Connectors
 * CN1 COM Express type connector 440pin
 * CN2 QSPI Flash module
 * CN3 DEBUG JTAG
 * CN4 HDMI
 * CN5 USB 2.0
 * CN6 Push-Pull microSD Card Socket
 * CN7 Ethernet, Connector, RJ45
 * CN8 LINE Out
 * CN9 MIC Input
 * CN10 DEBUG SERIAL (not populated)
 * CN11 CPLD Programming JTAG
 * CN12 DEBUG SERIAL (serial)
 * CN13 Main Power Supply input (5VDC)
 * CN14 CPU Fan
 * Switches
 * SW1 Hyper Flash
 * SW2 Software Readable DIPSWITCHES (4x)
 * SW3 Software Readable Push button
 * SW4 Software Readable Push button
 * SW5 Software Readable Push button
 * SW6 Mode Settings
 * SW7 Reset
 * SW8 Power
 * SW9 Reset
 * Board specifications
 * Dimensions: 95mm × 95mm
 * Board thickness: 1.6mm
 * External power supply 5V / 6A max, Ripple & Noise (Vp-p) Full load 200mV
 * T opr Operating ambient temperature 0°C to 40°C Do not expose to condensation
 * Vcc 5V system power supply voltage (range 5V +- 5%)
 * I board Maximum current consumption 6A, 40W

Quick Start How To
This sections describes steps that are necessary to run a "Hello, World!" application using Yocto build. Both X11 and Wayland are supported.

Build Yocto image
Refer to Yocto for steps necessary for making a Yocto image.

Connect 5 V power supply to the board
Use 12 V power supply with a 5.5 mm barrel plug. The power supply should be able to provide 9 Amps.

Connect to serial console
Use a microUSB cable to connect the PC to R-Car Starter Kit Premier (H3ULCB) board. CN12 ("CPLD/DEBUG") must be used on Starter Kit side. It is routed to SCIF2 in the R-Car H3 via a FT232 interface converter chip.

On Linux, FT232 driver is included with kernel versions >=2.6.12. Windows driver and sources can be found on Silicon Labs website.

Serial settings are 115200 8N1. Any standard terminal emulator program can be used.

On Linux:

picocom

sudo picocom -b 115200 DEVICE replace DEVICE with the proper tty device name, for example /dev/ttyUSB0. Running dmesg | tail can help locating proper device. After the successful connection, picocom should display:

picocom v1.7 port is       : /dev/ttyUSB0 flowcontrol   : none baudrate is   : 115200 parity is     : none databits are  : 8 escape is     : C-a local echo is : no noinit is      : no noreset is     : no nolock is      : no send_cmd is    : sz -vv receive_cmd is : rz -vv imap is       : omap is       : emap is       : crcrlf,delbs, Terminal ready

Use Ctrl+A, Ctrl+Q to exit picocom.

minicom

sudo minicom -b 115200 -D DEVICE replace DEVICE with the proper tty device name, for example /dev/ttyUSB0. Running dmesg | tail can help locating proper device. After the successful connection, minicom should display:

Welcome to minicom 2.6.2 OPTIONS: I18n Compiled on Aug 7 2013, 13:32:48. Port /dev/ttyUSB0 Press CTRL-A Z for help on special keys Use Ctrl+A, Q to exit minicom.

Power on the board and go to U-Boot prompt
Short-press SW8 "Power" to switch the board on. Then you should see the following output in the terminal: Welcome to minicom 2.7 OPTIONS: I18n Compiled on Jan 1 2014, 17:13:19. Port /dev/ttyUSB0, 18:31:48 Press CTRL-A Z for help on special keys NOTICE: BL2: R-Car Gen3 Initial Program Loader(CA57) Rev.1.0.9 NOTICE: BL2: PRR is R-Car H3 ES1.1 NOTICE: BL2: Boot device is HyperFlash(80MHz) NOTICE: BL2: LCM state is CM NOTICE:  BL2: AVS setting succeeded. DVFS_SetVID=0x52 NOTICE: BL2: DDR1600(rev.0.10) NOTICE: BL2: DRAM Split is 4ch NOTICE: BL2: QoS is default setting(rev.0.32) NOTICE: BL2: Lossy Decomp areas NOTICE:      Entry 0: DCMPAREACRAx:0x80000540 DCMPAREACRBx:0x570 NOTICE:      Entry 1: DCMPAREACRAx:0x40000000 DCMPAREACRBx:0x0 NOTICE:      Entry 2: DCMPAREACRAx:0x20000000 DCMPAREACRBx:0x0 NOTICE: BL2: v1.1(release):3ad02ac NOTICE: BL2: Built : 13:03:52, Sep 20 2016 NOTICE: BL2: Normal boot NOTICE: BL2: dst=0xe631a208 src=0x8180000 len=512(0x200) NOTICE: BL2: dst=0x43f00000 src=0x8180400 len=6144(0x1800) NOTICE: BL2: dst=0x44000000 src=0x81c0000 len=65536(0x10000) NOTICE: BL2: dst=0x44100000 src=0x8200000 len=524288(0x80000) NOTICE: BL2: dst=0x49000000 src=0x8640000 len=1048576(0x100000) U-Boot 2015.04 (Sep 23 2016 - 18:54:42) CPU: Renesas Electronics R8A7795 rev 1.1 Board: H3ULCB I2C:  ready DRAM: 3.9 GiB MMC:  sh-sdhi: 0, sh-sdhi: 1 In:   serial Out:  serial Err:  serial Net:  ravb Hit any key to stop autoboot: 3 Quickly hit any key to get into U-boot command prompt. Use SW9 ("Reset") to reboot the board when necessary.

You should see the following:

Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 =>

Configure U-Boot to boot over TFTP + NFS or from a micro SD card
Refer to Yocto page for steps necessary for running Yocto.

Serial Console
Use a micro-USB cable to connect to "Debug Serial 0". Serial settings are 115200 8N1.

Booting Linux
* Kernel config: defconfig * Kernel image: arch/arm64/boot/Image * DTB: arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r8a7795-salvator-x.dtb (for R-Car H3) * DTB: arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r8a7796-salvator-x.dtb (for R-Car M3-W)

U-Boot boot command: tftpboot 0x48080000 Image tftpboot 0x48f00000 r8a7795-salvator-x.dtb (for R-Car H3) tftpboot 0x48f00000 r8a7796-salvator-x.dtb (for R-Car M3-W) booti 0x48080000 - 0x48f00000

Lossy decomp
If you see the following strings, the firmware enables Lossy decomp feature. And, we cannot use the memory area from 0x54000000 to 0x56ffffff as Linux system memory.

NOTICE: BL2: Lossy Decomp areas NOTICE:      Entry 0: DCMPAREACRAx:0x80000540 DCMPAREACRBx:0x570 NOTICE:      Entry 1: DCMPAREACRAx:0x40000000 DCMPAREACRBx:0x0 NOTICE:      Entry 2: DCMPAREACRAx:0x20000000 DCMPAREACRBx:0x0


 * Remarks
 * The bit 31 of "DCMPAREACRAx" is set to 1, this means the Lossy decomp feature is enabled.
 * The lower 18-bits of "DCMPAREACRAx" means start address.
 * This 0x540 in Entry 0 means that the start address is 0x54000000.
 * The lower 18-bits of "DCMPAREACRBx" means end address.
 * This 0x570 in Entry 0 means that the end address is 0x56ffffff.

Test procedures

 * Tests:eMMC-8bit-width: Test the on-board eMMC with an 8 bit bus width
 * Tests:SCIF-FIFO: Test SCIF FIFO behavior, using SCIF3 and HSCIF3 on expansion I/O connectors
 * Tests:SDIO-KS7010: Test SDIO with a Spectec SDW823 microSD card (using an SD size adapter) on connectors CN13 or CN14
 * Tests:SDIO-H3-Voltage-Switching: Test if voltages change properly when inserting UHS capable SD cards into connectors CN13 or CN14
 * Tests:Watchdog-Pretimeout: Test watchdog pretimeouts. Because the hardware watchdog (RWDT) doesn't support this feature, a software watchdog must be used in addition