AlexUg/sigrok

Installation and/or usage instructions?

NikiSchlifke opened this issue · 11 comments

NikiSchlifke commented

@AlexUg
Can you provide usage instructions for this patch?

I'll assume it goes this way:

  1. Merge this project with the main sigrok sources
  2. Apply the patches
  3. Build it
  4. Use the modified python script to download the firmware
  5. Patch the firmware
  6. Flash the firmware (how exactly)
AlexUg commented

Hi,
I afraid that these patches very old for appling to current sigrok sources. If i have time I will publish new patches ASAP. In addition, I found a bug related to the work of triggers.
But You may try:

  1. Clone sigrok repository
  2. Clone this repository
  3. Use '0001-Add-Kingst-LA1010-support.patch' for patching libsigrok sources
  4. Build sigrok
  5. Use scirpt 'sigrok-fwextract-kingstvis.py' for extract firmwares
  6. Copy firmwares to directory '~/.local/share/sigrok-firmware/'
  7. Start pulseview....

If patches will not work then simplest way is coping folder 'kingst-la1010' as subdirectory to 'src/hardware' in libsigrok sources and making changes with 'Makefile.am.patch' and 'configure.ac.patch'.
And then build from step '4'.

AlexUg commented

I can provide DEB-packages for Ubuntu >=16.04. But I'm not sure if I can publish them.

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NikiSchlifke commented

Thanks any pointers would be appreciated, I've got a kingst La1010 and just would like to use it. And not brick it. If you know the sigrok version you originally used I could go with it.

AlexUg commented

I were using latest commit from git-repository. But last build was done in march.

depili commented

The latest kingstvis archive doesn't seem to have any .dll:s that would match the provided sha256 sum, does anyone have a link to archive which can be used to extract the firmware?

depili commented

Checked both 3.0.5 (on the cd that came with la1010) and 3.0.9

depili commented

Apparently 2.0.9 has the required .dll: https://kingstvis.software.informer.com/2.0/ but finding the firmware on the 3.0 branch of the kingstvis would probably be a good idea.

AlexUg commented

Thanks for information.
Currently I'm not using analyzer often, therefore did not follow the software updates. I'll check the new .ddl and if there will no problem I will publish updated script.

AlexUg commented

but finding the firmware on the 3.0 branch of the kingstvis would probably be a good idea.

After a cursory examination of new version revealed the following difficulties:

  1. protocol for uploading Spartan firmware was changed therefore are needed a lot of changes in the code;
  2. no firmwares were found in distribution (may be they're compressed or encrypted in some .dll, in which?).
depili commented

Then it is probably best to just document that you need the firmware from Kingstvis 2.0.9, as at least currently that version is still available on 3rd party sites and can be found with google.

AlexUg commented

You are right.