PRU on BBB

[Bernd Walter]

On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 09:32:09AM -0700, Rui Paulo wrote:
> On Oct 25, 2014, at 06:28, Manuel Stühn <freebsdnewbie at freenet.de> wrote:
> > 
> > Hello list,
> > 
> > I'm a great fan of FreeBSD and was very glad to see, that FreeBSD supports the beaglebone black. Even the PRUs, which I want to put into operation, are supported by FreeBSD. But unfortunately i do not have a clue, how the driver is intended to be used. For linux there is some API/docu to load/start/stop and communicate with the PRU.
> > 
> > Did anyone put the PRUs already into operation with FreeBSD and could give me a hint how this is done?
> 
> There's a work in progress PRU library:
> 
> https://bitbucket.org/rpaulo/libpru
> 
> And a program to upload binaries to the PRU:
> 
> https://bitbucket.org/rpaulo/pructl
> 
> These don't have documentation yet and you have to build them yourself, but that should be straightforward.
> 
> You can use the assembler from ports: devel/pasm.

We have PRU supprt?
That's awesome.
Had been interested in PRU, but not even dreamed about existing support.

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