On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Brian Hutchinson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Robert Nelson <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Brian Hutchinson <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> Hi Robert, >>> >>> Will mainline 3.15.6 work on xM or is your repo the best hope to get >>> something that works? I'm studying xM and BBB trying to update my >>> TI816x to something in this century. >> >> Well for the xM, mainline pretty much works. The main patches in my >> image (v3.15.x based): >> >> http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardDebian#BeagleBoard_xM >> >> Are video/usb fixes.. >> >> For the TI816x.. yuck.. Last i looked, I didn't want to deal with that mess. >> ;) > > Yes, I know. It is my millstone to carry ... I didn't pick it for our > board but I'm stuck with it. > > I checked out 3.15.6 from kernel.org and didn't see a _defconfig for > the xM. I have an A2 so I see an omap3-beagle-xm-ab.dtb so I'm > hoping I can study these bindings and the BBB and figure out how to > get a minimal something working on the ti816x. > > Just trying to figure out which repo's I should be looking at to beg, > borrow, and steal enough examples to get up-to-speed on. > > I've been stuck in 2.6.37 land for too long and trying to get my head > back around all the modern kernel changes. Got 3.12 working on our > dm6446 board without too much trouble not too long ago but I didn't > have to do any dts mods to it.
For the xM, you can either use: omap2plus_defconfig or: multi_v7_defconfig and it 'should' just boot. for usb/ethernet/video you will have to add some more drivers. The major problem with "ti816x" is, a whole bunch of base level support never made it mainline. Regards, -- Robert Nelson http://www.rcn-ee.com/ -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
