Heya Rick,

First off let me say that I was exploring kernel 3.14.x myself in this
respect before the holidays, and got "sucked" into doing some remodeling
work for / with a friend who recently sold a house . . .

Anyway, from what I see in your uEnv.txt file you're only loading an ADC
overlay, on top of the standard *bone-black dtb. Hence why your GPIO pins
are probably not working. However, since you did not say if your
*bone-black.dtb is modified or not . . . yeah, I could not say that 100%
for sure.

So here is a post by Tom King ( and Panto - IRC nick ) from early on after
release.

http://elinux.org/BeagleBone_and_the_3.8_Kernel

There are some differences here now between 3.8.x, and 3.14.x. First of
all, of course we do not have capemgr in 3.14.x, and I *think* we can use
an #include statement in the main overlay to pull in additional overlays. I
am a bit fussy here myself, as before the holidays, this is where I
personally halted my own experiments. Anyway, Robert undoubtedly could
answer this question better than I, but if you look in the main board file
*.dtb you should find examples of #include commented out ( e.g. ##include
). which should give you a hint.

Combine that with the link ( informational purposes ) I gave above, and you
*should* be able to modify the main board file to #include a custom overlay
for the GPIO pins you need.

*However, you seem to be using a 3.8.x kernel ?*

cape_enable=capemgr.enable_partno=BB-ADC kind of denotes this but let us
say for example you had your pin configs all setup in a file named
*BB-GPIO.*, your enable line would look similar to . . .

*cape_enable=capemgr.enable_partno=BB-ADC, BB-GPIO*

Comma separated overlay files . . .

Also, if you look very closely at the *.dtb files in the /boot/ directory,
you'll see files for various other hardware platforms such as *bone.dtb (
beaglebone white ), and other hardware platforms that Robert supports with
/ for his various build instructions.

As for the rest of your questions, I would have to defer to someone else
more knowledgeable. Hopefully though the link I gave above would be able to
answer most / all of those questions.


On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 10:04 PM, Rick Mann <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> > On Dec 28, 2014, at 19:56 , Robert Nelson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > So the ADC is pretty straight forward, for example the proxy cape uses
> > 3 adc channels..
> >
> >
> https://github.com/RobertCNelson/dtb-rebuilder/blob/3.14-ti/src/arm/am335x-bone-basic-proto-cape.dtsi
> >
> > So if you add that node (with the 2 adc channels you need) to:
> >
> >
> https://github.com/RobertCNelson/dtb-rebuilder/blob/3.14-ti/src/arm/am335x-boneblack.dts
> >
> > then it's just
> >
> > make
> > sudo make install
> > sudo reboot
> >
> > (this is with the 3.14-ti branch of dtb-rebuilder)
> >
> > The best gpio example is in the argus dtsi
> >
> >
> https://github.com/RobertCNelson/dtb-rebuilder/blob/3.14-ti/src/arm/am335x-bone-argus.dtsi
>
> Okay, that seemed to re-enable the ADC, but it killed my GPIOs (which were
> working, actually). I didn't yet try to add a node for the GPIOs. I have
> many questions:
>
> A) What does it mean for all those resulting .dtb files to be in the
> /boot/... directory? Do they all get loaded? Does only the main one
> ("am335x-boneblack")?
>
> B) In the Argus example, all the &ocp/..._pinmux statuses are set to
> "disabled." Wouldn't I want the pinmux to be enabled ("okay")? What does it
> mean to disable the pinmux?
>
> C) Can there be multiple &ocp, &am33xx_pinmux entries?
>
> D) There's a comment on
> https://github.com/RobertCNelson/dtb-rebuilder/blob/3.14-ti/src/arm/am335x-bone-argus.dtsi#L56
> that says the gpio controllers appear to be numbered starting at 1, but
> then list gpio controllers numbered 0.
>
> E) What does "debug" and "shutdown" do?
>
> F) I'm going to add version of each of these ampersand-nodes, and a root
> node, just like the argus ones, replacing "argus_ups" with "podtique", and
> adjusting the pins to what I need. Is that the right approach? That will
> result in am335x-boneblack.dts having multiple root nodes, and multiple
> &ocp and &am335x-pinmux nodes. Eventually, this suggests making a separate
> .dtsi with all the stuff for my cape, and just including it into .dts,
> right?
>
> G) What should my uEnv.txt look like? It currently looks like this:
> http://pastebin.com/3fx5SDb9
>
> Thanks!
>
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> [email protected]
>
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