But I executed sudo echo libpruio >  /sys/devices/bone_capemgr.9/slots as
root, not a normal user. Does that make sense?

And if privileged echo were the cause, wouldn't the second command, sudo
echo BB-BONE-PRU-01 > /sys/devices/bone_capemgr.*/slots be affected as well?

Brandon

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Robert Nelson <[email protected]>
wrote:

> This is why..
>
> http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#Privileged_echo
> On Mar 25, 2015 12:22 PM, "Brandon Stafford" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Brandon Stafford <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Robert Nelson <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Right now the best thing to do is still downgrade to the 3.8 kernel,
>>>> which is in the repo..
>>>>
>>>
>>> OK, cool. I'll do that.
>>> Downgrading to 3.8.13-bone70 worked, and libpruio seems to work, but not
>>> exactly the way I would expect.
>>>
>>
>> When I try to load libpruio, this happens:
>>
>>     sudo echo libpruio >  /sys/devices/bone_capemgr.9/slots
>>     echo: write error: No such file or directory
>>
>> Here's what appears in dmesg:
>>
>> [  199.719576] bone-capemgr bone_capemgr.9: part_number 'libpruio',
>> version 'N/A'
>> [  199.719757] bone-capemgr bone_capemgr.9: slot #8: generic override
>> [  199.719802] bone-capemgr bone_capemgr.9: bone: Using override eeprom
>> data at slot 8
>> [  199.719849] bone-capemgr bone_capemgr.9: slot #8: 'Override Board
>> Name,00A0,Override Manuf,libpruio'
>> [  199.726206] bone-capemgr bone_capemgr.9: slot #8: Requesting part
>> number/version based 'libpruio-00A0.dtbo
>> [  199.726269] bone-capemgr bone_capemgr.9: slot #8: Requesting firmware
>> 'libpruio-00A0.dtbo' for board-name 'Override Board Name', version '00A0'
>> [  199.750455] bone-capemgr bone_capemgr.9: failed to load firmware
>> 'libpruio-00A0.dtbo'
>>
>> The libpruio installation instructions (
>> http://users.freebasic-portal.de/tjf/Projekte/libpruio/doc/html/_cha_preparation.html)
>> say that you can also do this:
>>
>>     sudo echo BB-BONE-PRU-01 > /sys/devices/bone_capemgr.*/slots
>>
>> This makes this appear in dmesg:
>>
>> [  216.578880] bone-capemgr bone_capemgr.9: part_number 'BB-BONE-PRU-01',
>> version 'N/A'
>> [  216.579067] bone-capemgr bone_capemgr.9: slot #9: generic override
>> [  216.579112] bone-capemgr bone_capemgr.9: bone: Using override eeprom
>> data at slot 9
>> [  216.579159] bone-capemgr bone_capemgr.9: slot #9: 'Override Board
>> Name,00A0,Override Manuf,BB-BONE-PRU-01'
>> [  216.579411] bone-capemgr bone_capemgr.9: slot #9: Requesting part
>> number/version based 'BB-BONE-PRU-01-00A0.dtbo
>> [  216.579459] bone-capemgr bone_capemgr.9: slot #9: Requesting firmware
>> 'BB-BONE-PRU-01-00A0.dtbo' for board-name 'Override Board Name', version
>> '00A0'
>> [  216.579519] bone-capemgr bone_capemgr.9: slot #9: dtbo
>> 'BB-BONE-PRU-01-00A0.dtbo' loaded; converting to live tree
>> [  216.586296] bone-capemgr bone_capemgr.9: slot #9: #2 overlays
>> [  216.608605] omap_hwmod: pruss: failed to hardreset
>> [  216.625429] bone-capemgr bone_capemgr.9: slot #9: Applied #2 overlays.
>>
>> The "failed to hardreset" is mildly alarming, but afterwards, uio_pruss
>> appears in lsmod and the first example works:
>>
>> sudo src/examples/1
>>  FA40 EE00 EF20 E700 DC70 D680 DA30 EEF0
>>  F3B0 EE50 EF30 E680 DB60 D8B0 D690 EE90
>>  F390 EE00 EF10 E780 DF40 D950 D760 EEC0
>>  F3B0 EEB0 EF90 E7A0 DF00 DE00 D800 EEB0
>>  F350 EE90 EF80 E710 DDB0 DCE0 D7D0 EEC0
>>  F350 EEB0 EFF0 E7C0 DE30 D8C0 D900 EEC0
>>  F400 EE50 EF30 E6B0 DD50 D970 D8D0 EF00
>>  F3E0 EE50 EEF0 E720 DEC0 DD00 DA40 EEB0
>>  F370 EE30 EF20 E720 DC60 DC30 DA10 EEA0
>>  F3C0 EDC0 EF20 E730 E020 DB50 D780 EEC0
>>  F3A0 ED90 EF10 E800 DF80 DD70 D6E0 EEF0
>>  F340 EE90 EFD0 E730 DD10 DA30 D7F0 EEB0
>>  F3D0 EF20 F000 E710 DE10 DAF0 DA90 EED0
>>
>> I'm not sure why the first method failed while the second worked, but
>> I'll take it. Hopefully this will be useful to someone else out there. Few
>> more details at
>> https://github.com/pingswept/dev-log/blob/master/2015-03-libpruio-on-bbb.markdown
>>
>> Thanks for the direction, Robert.
>>
>> Brandon
>>
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