I have followed the USB OTG hint as mentioned in my previous post. I
patched the dtb for the bbb so that the mini usb port runs as peripheral
and not as OTG. The patch was deployed to 7 systems so far and they all are
stable (no reboot) since then on any of the systems. The uptime is more
than 3 days now.
 On 4 Nov 2014 15:02, "Ives van der Flaas" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Have you had *any* resets since the upgrade to the new u-boot version?
> I've also been suspecting u-boot, hence my "Meaning that I'm also running
> an old u-boot. " in the last post.
>
> Op dinsdag 4 november 2014 00:18:43 UTC+1 schreef david turvene:
>>
>> On Saturday, November 1, 2014 3:24:33 PM UTC-4, david turvene wrote:
>>>
>>> The system runs fine when I'm not messing around with the plugs,
>>> changing the wifi properties, or sniffing.  When I do any of these the
>>> system occasionally silently reboots - I've been able to test up to 20
>>> sniffing sessions before it reboots, sometimes it will reboot immediately
>>> when I start an monitor session.
>>> * I run the BBB headless, generally using SSH xterm.
>>> * The silent reboot happens with NO indication.  NOTHING.  The uart
>>> console just shows a system restart.
>>> * I triggered a watchdog NMI (it takes 22 seconds) and it showed a lot
>>> of diagnostic info - so that's not it.
>>>
>>
>> Further research - similar behavior was reported last year.  Lot's of red
>> herrings (USB control appeared to be the most suspicious because that's my
>> main interface but also long threads blaming the power management unit.)
>>  Someone found that another clock source was needed for low-power state and
>> moved the new code into u-boot.  I was running with a local build from
>> RCN's git repo described at:
>>
>> https://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBone+Black#
>> BeagleBoneBlack-Bootloader:U-Boot
>>
>> and 2014.7 baseline.  I noticed it is now at 2014.10 so I rebuilt and
>> installed on target.  The system is much more stable after testing for a
>> lot longer than I could before.  And I'm pretty sure the clocking/power is
>> the root cause of the silent reboots so I'm checking how the clock change,
>> to the RTC32K clock, works.
>>
>> Also, since I'm running from emmc, I used am335x_boneblack_defconfig to
>> build u-boot.  The only difference is it sets EMMC_BOOT but a quick grep
>> shows it changes logic in a couple places.
>>
>> Anyway, it's a start...
>>
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