On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 10:44 AM, garyamort <[email protected]> wrote:
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>
> On Friday, August 23, 2013 8:29:27 PM UTC-4, Seth wrote:
>>
>> This particular thread looks promising, but I am not sure how the two
>> patches Pantelis posted fit into a solution. Pantelis says "This should fix
>> kind of problem when the dtbo is not included in the kernel image." which
>> seems to be my issue. Does that mean we still have to recompile the kernel
>> to have our cape firmware changes included? What is the purpose of the
>> /lib/firmware folder in that case? I am pretty new to this and it would be
>> appreciated if Pantelis (or anyone else who's been successful at this) could
>> share how they got their custom dtbo files loaded and working with more
>> detail. Thanks.
>
>
>
> It means that the kernel must be compiled with the two changes Pantelis made
> in order to work.  Depending on how you are keeping your software image up
> to date will control whether or not you need to recompile.  I am using
> Robert Nelson's build image scripts and currently am using the 3.8 kernel
> with his patches up through version bone28.  Checking the linux source files
> I do not see those two patches - and checking his 3.8 kernel branch,
> https://github.com/RobertCNelson/linux-dev/tree/am33x-v3.8 I don't see the
> patches so I'm assuming they are not there yet.

Ahh i see the issue now.

Those patches are disabled..

https://github.com/RobertCNelson/linux-dev/blob/am33x-v3.8/patch.sh#L786

Feel free to enable them and also "tweak" the config, so it doesn't
break loading every cape...

Regards,

-- 
Robert Nelson
http://www.rcn-ee.com/

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