Orocos and Xenomai fails with the deployer (ARM embedded card)

Submitted by cazalilla1988 on Thu, 2013-10-31 09:29

Hi all. I'm trying to use Xenomai+Linaro under a IGEPv2, in order to install Orocos (with the RT_TARGET=xenomai). I've been working with the IGEPv2 and ROS+Orocos, but with the RTT_TARGET=gnulinux, instead of Xenomai.

Now, I've downloaded from git.isee.biz the kernel patched with Xenomai:

$git clone git://git.isee.biz/pub/scm/linux-omap-2.6.git $cd linux-omap-2.6/ $git checkout linux-2.6.35.y-rt $make ARCH=arm igep00x0_defconfig $make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi- zImage modules $sudo make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi- INSTALL_MOD_PATH=/media/root modules_install

/*Copy&Paste the zImage to the Boot partition*/

When I run the IgepV2, the kernel informs that Xenomai have been installed properly (dmesg).

[ 0.108093] I-pipe: Domain Xenomai registered. [ 0.108123] Xenomai: hal/arm started. [ 0.109252] Xenomai: scheduling class idle registered. [ 0.109283] Xenomai: scheduling class rt registered. [ 0.117645] Xenomai: real-time nucleus v2.6.0 (Movin' On) loaded. [ 0.117675] Xenomai: debug mode enabled. [ 0.118164] Xenomai: starting native API services. [ 0.118164] Xenomai: starting POSIX services. [ 0.118316] Xenomai: starting RTDM services.

Then, I have to install Xenomai at the user-space in order to use it with Orocos (or other application), so I did (inside the IGEPv2):

   wget http://download.gna.org/xenomai/stable/xenomai-2.6.0.tar.bz2
   tar jxf xenomai-2.6.0.tar.bz2
   cd xenomai-2.6.0
   ./configure CFLAGS="-march=armv7-a -mfpu=vfp3 -marm"
   make
   make install
If I run /usr/xenomai/bin/xeno-test, it works fine (it seems).

So, I compile Orocos. It detects the Xenomai installation and compile. However, when I run "deployer-xenomai" in order to start Orocos, I get this error:

root@igep2:~/orocos/orocos-toolchain# deployer-xenomai Xenomai Posix skin init: pthread_setschedparam: Device or resource busy

Therefore, it doesn't work due to this error: "Xenomai Posix skin init: pthread_setschedparam: Device or resource busy". I think it could be related to the configuration of Xenomai at the user-space for the IGEPv2.

Any idea about the issue?

Regards, Jose

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[SOLVED PARTIALLY]

Submitted by cazalilla1988 on Wed, 2013-11-06 12:03.

Hi all.

I've been talking with Xenomai developers and they said this was a bug solved in next releases (e.g. Xenomai 2.6.3). I proposed them to install Xenomai 2.6.3 in user-space, using Xenomai 2.6.0 in the kernel (using the kernel provided by ISEE). The good new is that it works!

However, it would be great to have kernel and user-space with the same version of Xenomai. I'm going to try to patch and compile a vanilla kernel (concretely 3.8.13) for the IgepV2 (following the advice of Xenomai developers) with the latest version.

Thanks guys!

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