Jeremy, please ignore; sudo apt-get install git-all did the trick.
On Tuesday, December 10, 2013 4:15:18 PM UTC-5, Bit Pusher wrote:
>
> Jeremy, thank you; any chance you can field one more (probably not too
> intelligent) question as I'm only starting on git?
>
> > git clone git://github.com/adafruit/adafruit-beaglebone-io-python
> Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding
> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/encodings/__init__.py", line 123
> raise CodecRegistryError,\
> ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> Aborted (core dumped)
> >
> I'm guessing I'm doing something stupid? Thanks.
> Bit_Pusher
>
> On Monday, December 9, 2013 11:19:20 AM UTC-5, Jeremy L wrote:
>>
>> On 12/09/2013 08:11 AM, Bit Pusher wrote:
>>
>> Zach, your suggestions worked. I changed fragment@1 to:
>>
>> fragment@1 {
>> target = <&ocp>;
>> __overlay__ {
>> test_pru_iomap: pru_iomap {
>> compatible = "bone-pinmux-helper";
>> pinctrl-names = "default";
>> pinctrl-0 = <&mygpio>;
>> status = "okay";
>> };
>> };
>> recompiled, and then when I loaded the overlay, and later did
>> ADC.setup(), I was still able to
>> control the output pins with the ADC simultaneously working using pru0
>> commands
>>
>> SET r30.t14
>> and
>> CLR r30.t14
>>
>> I also added pru0 to:
>> exclusive-use =
>> "P8.12", "pru0";
>> as you suggested. Finally, your explanations about which files are being
>> affected when overlays are loaded
>> was very illuminating. I have spent time googling to try and understand
>> what is going on with device trees, and
>> read articles such as http://www.devicetree.org/Device_Tree_Usage, but
>> your few lines of explanation have been
>> more useful than anything I have found to date. If there is an article or
>> site you would recommend to read, I would
>> be very interested. Also, if you happen to know where the source code for
>> Adafruit_BBIO.ADC can be found,
>> I would be interested in trying to follow it through. Once again, thank
>> you for your
>> help; with my limited knowledge re device trees, this is not something I
>> would have
>> been able to solve on my own.
>> Bit Pusher
>>
>> On Friday, December 6, 2013 2:50:39 PM UTC-5, Zachary Thorson wrote:
>>>
>>> Odd, dmesg has no errors, but there is definitely a conflict between the
>>> two.
>>>
>>> Someone can correct me if I am wrong as this is a guess based on the
>>> behavior of the system (I'll have to look it up later) but loading a device
>>> tree will dynamically map a bunch of hardware register to the file system
>>> in certain locations based on the fragment used. Since the dts file you
>>> posted specified &ocp as the target, it placed it into
>>> /sys/devices/ocp.*/[Name].
>>>
>>> In this case [Name] is the name that you specified is the one inside
>>> of that __overlay__ keyword. That would be "helper".
>>>
>>> I know for sure that the Adafruit Library looks for
>>> /sys/devices/ocp.*/helper.* to read from and control the ADC registers, so
>>> if your overlay is overwriting those values, it will lead to problems. I
>>> am not sure why it would affect your pru code without seeing how you are
>>> trying to access the IOs.
>>>
>>> Anyway, try changing the line:
>>> test_helper: helper {
>>>
>>>
>>> to something more unique such as:
>>> pru_iomap {
>>>
>>>
>>> Recompile, then try loading as before.
>>>
>>> Though if you are not using the ocp mapping to write to the IO, you
>>> could probably drop the section. Some of the sample dts files in
>>> /lib/firmware/BB-BONE-PRU-01.dts do not even map the ocp.
>>>
>>> Also, you may want to add "pru0" to your exclusive use list so another
>>> cape doesn't try to use it at the same time.
>>>
>>> After those changes:
>>>
>>>
>>> 0: 54:PF---
>>> 1: 55:PF---
>>> 2: 56:PF---
>>> 3: 57:PF---
>>> 4: ff:P-O-L Bone-LT-eMMC-2G,00A0,Texas Instrument,BB-BONE-EMMC-2G
>>> 5: ff:P-O-L Bone-Black-HDMI,00A0,Texas Instrument,BB-BONELT-HDMI
>>> root@beaglebone:~# echo BB-BONE-PRU > $SLOTS
>>> root@beaglebone:~# cat $SLOTS
>>> 0: 54:PF---
>>> 1: 55:PF---
>>> 2: 56:PF---
>>> 3: 57:PF---
>>> 4: ff:P-O-L Bone-LT-eMMC-2G,00A0,Texas Instrument,BB-BONE-EMMC-2G
>>> 5: ff:P-O-L Bone-Black-HDMI,00A0,Texas Instrument,BB-BONELT-HDMI
>>> 7: ff:P-O-L Override Board Name,00A0,Override Manuf,BB-BONE-PRU
>>> root@beaglebone:~# python
>>> Python 2.7.3 (default, May 29 2013, 21:25:00)
>>> [GCC 4.7.3 20130205 (prerelease)] on linux2
>>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> >>> import Adafruit_BBIO.ADC as ADC
>>> >>> ADC.setup()
>>> >>> ADC.read("P9_40")
>>> 0.86722224950790405
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Let me know how it goes,
>>> Zachary Thorson
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, December 4, 2013 8:13:14 PM UTC-6, Bit Pusher wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Zach, that would be very good of you; I got if from searching on the
>>>> net and it is barely changed (if at all) from what I found (but I didn't
>>>> record who I copied it from so I apologize for not giving credit). The
>>>> *.dts is below. I might mention that if I load my overlay only, then using
>>>> >cat $PINS, I can see the expected pin change to 6. If I setup the AD
>>>> >first
>>>> in python, I do not see any changes in the $PINS, and if I then try to
>>>> load
>>>> my overlay and check the pins, they are still the same as just after boot.
>>>> Bit Pusher
>>>>
>>>> /lib/firmware\> cat BB-BONE-PRU-00A0.dts
>>>> /*
>>>> * pru dts file BB-BONE-PRU-00A0.dts
>>>> */
>>>> /dts-v1/;
>>>> /plugin/;
>>>>
>>>> / {
>>>> compatible = "ti,beaglebone", "ti,beaglebone-black";
>>>>
>>>> /* identification */
>>>> part-number = "BB-BONE-PRU";
>>>> version = "00A0";
>>>>
>>>> exclusive-use =
>>>> "P8.12";
>>>>
>>>> fragment@0 {
>>>> target = <&am33xx_pinmux>;
>>>> __overlay__ {
>>>> mygpio: pinmux_mygpio{
>>>> pinctrl-single,pins = <
>>>> 0x30 0x06
>>>> >;
>>>> };
>>>> };
>>>> };
>>>>
>>>> fragment@1 {
>>>> target = <&ocp>;
>>>> __overlay__ {
>>>> test_helper: helper {
>>>> compatible = "bone-pinmux-helper";
>>>> pinctrl-names = "default";
>>>> pinctrl-0 = <&mygpio>;
>>>> status = "okay";
>>>> };
>>>> };
>>>> };
>>>>
>>>> fragment@2{
>>>> target = <&pruss>;
>>>> __overlay__ {
>>>> status = "okay";
>>>> };
>>>> };
>>>> };
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wednesday, December 4, 2013 8:17:47 AM UTC-5, Zachary Thorson wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Could you post or send me your overlay? I can load it on one of my
>>>>> BBBs and take a look for you.
>>>>>
>>>>> Zach
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tuesday, December 3, 2013 8:39:35 PM UTC-6, Bit Pusher wrote:
>>>>> > If I load my device tree overlay to use the high-speed GPIO pins
>>>>> first, and then try to read the ADC using Adafruit_BBIO, it kicks me out
>>>>> of
>>>>> python:
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > ~/pru\> sudo python
>>>>> > Python 2.7.5+ (default, Sep 19 2013, 14:17:30)
>>>>> > [GCC 4.8.1] on linux2
>>>>> > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
>>>>> information.
>>>>> > >>> import Adafruit_BBIO.ADC as ADC
>>>>> > >>> ADC.setup()
>>>>> > >>> ADC.read("P9_40")
>>>>> > ~/pru\>
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > notice no value returned and no python prompt. I suspect this
>>>>> indicates a problem.
>>>>> > I then rebooted (reset switch), waited until the network started
>>>>> working again (it takes 5 minutes each time for the network to work,
>>>>> something needs to timeout)
>>>>> > and then did the same, but this time did not load the device overlay
>>>>> to change one pru gpio to a high-speed output and got as expected
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > ~/pru\> sudo python
>>>>> > Python 2.7.5+ (default, Sep 19 2013, 14:17:30)
>>>>> > [GCC 4.8.1] on linux2
>>>>> > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
>>>>> information.
>>>>> > >>> import Adafruit_BBIO.ADC as ADC
>>>>> > >>> ADC.setup()
>>>>> > >>> ADC.read("P9_40")
>>>>> > 0.8072222471237183
>>>>> > >>>
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I should mention that when I load both overlays, with my overlay
>>>>> first, >cat $SLOTS shows them both there, just the ADC overlay load does
>>>>> not
>>>>> > work correctly. If I run the ADC.setup() first, and then run
>>>>> > ~/pru\>>sudo sh -c "echo BB-BONE-PRU > $SLOTS" to load my overlay,
>>>>> then
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > /lib/firmware\> cat $SLOTS
>>>>> > 0: 54:PF---
>>>>> > 1: 55:PF---
>>>>> > 2: 56:PF---
>>>>> > 3: 57:PF---
>>>>> > 4: ff:P-O-L Bone-LT-eMMC-2G,00A0,Texas Instrument,BB-BONE-EMMC-2G
>>>>> > 5: ff:P-O-L Bone-Black-HDMI,00A0,Texas Instrument,BB-BONELT-HDMI
>>>>> > 7: ff:P-O-L Override Board Name,00A0,Override Manuf,cape-bone-iio
>>>>> > 9: ff:P-O-L Override Board Name,00A0,Override Manuf,BB-BONE-PRU
>>>>> > /lib/firmware\>
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > and both overlays are shown but the high
>>>>> > speed pin does not work.
>>>>> > Loading just my overlay only, works as expected as far as I can tell
>>>>> (i.e. the led turns on and off).
>>>>> > I'm guessing things are not quite as expected.
>>>>> > Also, could someone point me to the file in kernel source that loads
>>>>> overlays?
>>>>> > Thanks.
>>>>> > Bit Pusher
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > On Tuesday, December 3, 2013 12:16:34 PM UTC-5, Zachary Thorson
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> > Correct me if I am wrong, but it appears that you simply want to use
>>>>> ADC and PRU pins whose pins DO NOT physically overlap on the board? The
>>>>> cape-bone-iio device tree only grabs the ADC0-ADC7 pins plus analog power
>>>>> and ground, so it should not interfere with the PRU pins.
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > What issue are you getting when you try to load the PRU overlay
>>>>> after loading the ADC overlay?
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Note: The adafruit library has a cleanup function in code, but it
>>>>> is commented out due to the lockup on load that you are describing.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Zach
>>>>>
>>>>> --
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>> This should be the repo you're looking for, though if not check the rest
>> of them there.
>> https://github.com/adafruit/adafruit-beaglebone-io-python
>> HTH
>>
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