Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] installing GR 3.5.2 on FreeBSD

[mleech]

On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:39:59 -0800, Josh Blum wrote:

> On 01/17/2012 07:36 AM, address@hidden wrote:
> > I've made it a habit to always be explicit about which device (or
> > device class, at least) I'm going for when I use UHD tools. 
> >
> > So, I
> > *always* either specify "--args type=usrp1" or --args
> > "addr=192.168.10.2" to UHD tools, so that I don't have to rely on
> > autodiscovery stuff that might produce weird results. I kind of *have*
> > to on one of my systems, because I have both a USRP1 and USRP2 on the
> > same system. 
> >
> > I vaguely recall from the mists of my memory that there's
> > some subtle brokenness with SIGINT handling in *BSD Python and Gnu
> > Radio, but that's as much as I remember. 
> >
> > In terms of why it's
> > reloading the .ihx, I'm not sure, although I'll note in the code that
> > there's a "force" parameter to the routine that loads the firmware, so
> > that if "force" is set, the FX2 firmware is reloaded regardless of
> > whether the local-file and on-board hash match. I'll also note that the
> > routine that *calls* the firmware loader doesn't actually supply this
> > parameter, so perhaps there's actually a bug. 
>
> Maybe its because the hash type is a size_t. I will throw this patch at
> you to make it fixed at int32: http://pastebin.com/5CTcHEnc
>
> Now I have to run...
>
> -Josh
>
> _______________________________________________

Given the type-punning that goes on "under the covers", I can see how using a size_t might not have been the best choice.

 

But I still wonder about the "force" parameter on fx2_ctrl_impl::usrp_load_firmware()