sPHENIX MAPS tracker discussion

[Ming Liu <ming AT bnl.gov>]

Hi Martin,
Thanks for the clear instructions. 
I cc'd mvtx-list also as several of us are working on new GTM integration now.

Cheers,
Ming 


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On 10/8/20, 8:17 PM, "sPHENIX-trigger-l on behalf of Martin Purschke" 
<sphenix-trigger-l-bounces AT lists.bnl.gov on behalf of purschke AT bnl.gov> wrote:

    Dear all,

    several of us had asked for an updated version of the OS/firmware for
    the GL1/GTM unit.
    (Cameron was among those - I'm too lazy now to check if you are
    subscribed to this list - sorry if you get this twice).

    Joe had a new generic distro made based on the latest Debian. This one
    has all its ties to the repositories intact, and you can install
    standard software through apt as usual.

    I updated the original generic image with Joe's currently latest
    firmware "gl1_gtm_top_v2.bit", installed some niceties (such as emacs,
    and some utilities, bc, tcpdump, nmap, lsof, etc etc) to make it an
    actually useful system.

    The original image that was originally created was 32G in size, with
    most of it empty. I dropped the size of the root partition down from
    30GB to 2GB (85% full), which dramatically reduces the size of the
    resulting image. After you load the image on your SD card, you can then
    expand the partition and file system to use all the space on your card.

    Joe's suite of low-level utilities was consolidated into one area, and I
    added our standard installation method to it (autogen.sh,
    automake/autoconf/libtool). You can install it like any of our standard
    packages. The SD card has the current version pre-installed.

    I set up an area in the RACF git repository to manage the Linux software
    (not the firmware) at
    https://git.racf.bnl.gov/gitea/sPHENIX/gl1_gtm
    You can get futures updates here.

    Joe: I went through and gave all files except the compiled binaries a
    proper extension (.sh, .py, .dat, ....) as it is standard. Much easier
    to work with that.

    However, I then ran into a snag with the distribution... I was under the
    impression that I put the image file into an area visible from the
    internal sphenix web server... not so. I have not kept up with the
    latest development here, apparently. I'll figure it out. For now,

    > scp 
yourself AT rftpexp.rhic.bnl.gov:/sphenix/WWW/DAQ/gl1_gtm/gl1gtm_sd_image_2G.img.bz2
 ./

    uncompress, and dd it on the SD card.

    If you need help with expanding the partition and file system, please
    pipe up.

    BTW, the system's root pw is "root". On boot, it tries to get a DHCP
    address, and brings up its serial port with 115200 bd.

    Enjoy!

    Best,
        Martin

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