The purpose of this application is to allow easy manipulation of the QSPI file system from a PC
Dependencies: EALib USBDevice mbed
The purpose of this application is to allow easy manipulation of the QSPI file system from a PC.
The application makes the LPC4088 QuickStart Board appear as a USB Memory Stick when connected to a PC. The PC will see the current content of the QSPI file system plus an image file of the file system that can be downloaded and (at a later time) be used to restore the file system to it's current state.
To use this application:
- Make sure that the QSPI file system has been formatted (using either the app_qspi_format application or one of the erase.* images).
- Download the app_qspifs_memstick application using drag-n-drop and then reset the board
- Optionally start a terminal program to read the status messages from the application
- Connect a USB cable to the micro USB slot on the back of the LPC4088 QuickStart Board, underneath the ethernet connector, and then to the PC
- The PC will install drivers if needed and then the USB Memory Stick will be available as a new drive
- Modify the file system to suit your needs
- With the USB cable still connected, press the button on the LPC4088 QuickStart Board
- The application will now:
- disconnect the USB Memory Stick
- write all changes to the QSPI flash memory
- create a new image file of the updated QSPI file system and store it in the .current/ folder
- connect the USB Memory Stick again
- Continue from step 6. until satisfied
Note 1: The file system that is exposed is a copy (in SDRAM) of the QSPI file system. The reason for this is that the USBMSD class requires a FAT file system.
Note 2: The image files created in step 8.3 above will be a *.fsX file (where the 'X' is the size of the file system in MB so *.fs1 for a 1MByte file system). The *.fsX file extensions are recognized by the HDK and can be used to drag-n-drop to the MBED drive in the same way as the *.bin files are. A *.fsX file will not overwrite the program stored in internal flash.
USBMSD_RAMFS.h
- Committer:
- embeddedartists
- Date:
- 2014-08-26
- Revision:
- 2:5a954ee65b33
- Parent:
- 0:bd0d999bb6fb
File content as of revision 2:5a954ee65b33:
#ifndef USBMSDRAMFS_H #define USBMSDRAMFS_H #include "mbed.h" #include "USBMSD.h" #include "RAMFileSystem.h" #include <stdint.h> /** * USBMSD_RAMFS class: Allows the mbed board to expose a FAT file system in SDRAM as a USB memory stick */ class USBMSD_RAMFS : public USBMSD { public: /** * Constructor * * @param ramfs The RAM file system * @param vendor_id Your vendor_id * @param product_id Your product_id * @param product_release Your preoduct_release */ USBMSD_RAMFS(RAMFileSystem* ramfs, uint16_t vendor_id = 0x0703, uint16_t product_id = 0x0104, uint16_t product_release = 0x0001); protected: /* * read one or more blocks on a storage chip * * @param data pointer where will be stored read data * @param block starting block number * @param count number of blocks to read * @returns 0 if successful */ virtual int disk_read(uint8_t* data, uint64_t block, uint8_t count); /* * write one or more blocks on a storage chip * * @param data data to write * @param block starting block number * @param count number of blocks to write * @returns 0 if successful */ virtual int disk_write(const uint8_t* data, uint64_t block, uint8_t count); /* * Disk initilization */ virtual int disk_initialize(); /* * Return the number of blocks * * @returns number of blocks */ virtual uint64_t disk_sectors(); /* * Return memory size * * @returns memory size */ virtual uint64_t disk_size(); /* * To check the status of the storage chip * * @returns status: 0: OK, 1: disk not initialized, 2: no medium in the drive, 4: write protected */ virtual int disk_status(); protected: RAMFileSystem* ramfs; }; #endif