Heh.  I went back :)   And this thread gave me a much better idea of the state.




Thank you to everyone who weighed in on this thread and I appreciate the hard 
work everyone puts into make this hardware and software available.




Cheers!

On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 11:19 AM, david turvene <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Tuesday, December 9, 2014 8:13:45 PM UTC-5, Matthew Heitzenroder wrote:
>>
>>
>> I would hate to downgrade the kernel back to 3.8, just to get the capes to 
>> work.  I’ll give those overlays a try.
>>
> @Matt -
> Well, if you REALLY don't want to go back, another thing you can try is to 
> memory map the chip address space and directly control the pin registers.
> Search for the android devmem.c utility.  It's a small C program that 
> memory maps physical address space into user space.  Compile and run it on 
> the BBB.  See the TI AM335x TRM 
> (http://www.ti.com/lit/ug/spruh73k/spruh73k.pdf) for physical memory 
> locations for EVERYTHING on the chip.  You need to understand the 
> architecture a little because the ARM core accesses most SoC peripherals 
> using the L3 or L4 buses (L1 and L2 are inside the ARM core.)
> For example, to read the GPIO_DATAOUT register in the GPIO1 register set 
> and then set the USR1 LED (bit 22):
> sudo devmem2 0x4804c13c w
> sudo devmem2 0x4804c13c w 0x400000
> To confirm the device, read the device_id reg in the CONTROL_MODULE 
> register set.  This should always return something containing B944h and 17h 
> - the unique JTAG id for the TI AM3358 chip.
> sudo devmem2 0x44e10600 w
> According to the BBB SRM you want to look in section 9.2.2 of the TRM for 
> your pins.
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