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MESAFLASH(1) General Commands Manual MESAFLASH(1)

MesaFlash - utility to flash Mesa Electronics FPGA Cards

mesaflash [options] [commands]

mesaflash Read, write, configure Mesa Electronics FPGA cards.

Select active device name. If no command is given it will detect board with given name and print info about it.

The special values "ETHER", "SPI" and "AUTO" will attempt to detect a device on ethernet, SPI, or any interface; --addr still needs to be specified for non-PCI devices.

Use ip or device name to look for <name> (IP address for Ethernet boards, serial device name for USB boards and serial boards, SPI device name for SPI boards)
Set the high register address for the EPP interface.
Use EPP interface to connect to board, only for boards with multiple interfaces (7c80, 7c81, 7i43, 7i90, 7i64).
Use USB interface to connect to board, only for boards with multiple interfaces (7c80, 7c81, 7i43, 7i90, 7i64).
Use SPI interface to connect to board, only for boards with multiple interfaces (7c80, 7c81, 7i43, 7i90, 7i64).
Use serial interface to connect to board, only for boards with multiple interfaces (7i43, 7i90, 7i64).
Use the fallback area of the FLASH memory while executing commands.
Access board using PCI bridge GPIO (currently only 6I24/6I25).
Format output from 'readhmid' command into XML.
Set daughter board name to 'name' for FPGA connector 'N'. Allows readhmid to include daughterboard terminal names, where # can be in the range 1 to 6 (1 means first FPGA connector).
Print detailed information while running commands.

Writes a standard bitfile 'filename' configuration to the userarea of the FLASH memory (IMPORTANT! 'filename' must be VALID FPGA configuration file).
If a write operation does not detect a valid boot block, write one.
Don't automatically verify after writing.
Verifies the FLASH memory configuration against the bitfile 'filename'.
Writes a standard bitfile 'filename' configuration to the FPGA (IMPORTANT! 'filename' must be VALID FPGA configuration file).
Backup all content the FLASH memory to the file 'filename' or to the directory 'dirname' with auto naming dump file.
Restore all content the FLASH memory from a file 'filename' (IMPORTANT! Can't use a dump file from different types of boards. Unacceptable interrupt the restoring process. If the restoring process was interrupted, do not turn off the board power and do not reload board, and run restore process again). Required SHA256 checksum file 'filename.sha256'.
Integrity check FPGA configuration bitfile before writing. Required SHA256 checksum file 'filename.sha256'.
Print hostmot2 configuration in PIN file format.
Print hostmot2 Pin Descriptors.
Do full FPGA reload from FLASH memory (only Ethernet, SPI and PCI boards).
Do full firmware reset (only Ethernet and serial boards).
Print full information about all sserial remote boards.
Read hostmot2 variable directly at 'address'.
Write hostmot2 variable directly at 'address' with 'value'.
Set board IP address in EEPROM memory to n.n.n.n (only Ethernet boards).
Print info about configuration in 'filename'.
Print the help message

No known bugs.

LinuxCNC Developer Community <emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net>

Michael Geszkiewicz <micges@wp.pl>

Peter Wallace <tech@mesanet.com>

GNU GPL v2+ License

Copyright (c) 2020 Sebastian Kuzminsky

Copyright (c) 2019 Peter Wallace

Copyright (c) 2013-2015 Michael Geszkiewicz

November 5 2022 version 3.4.6