you can power a board by USB but from a special wall adapter with an
integrated USB socket. As an option

2015-08-10 23:58 GMT+03:00 William Hermans <[email protected]>:

> Hi Maxim,
>
> The reason why we did this is that the board in question was mounted to a
> piece of wood, that is screwed into a wall. So grounding Vbus would not
> have been easy. Vusb for us was really easy. Solder the outside pins on a
> USB A socket to the outer shielding, then plug a MALE A to mini B cable to
> the socket, and BBB. Took a total of like 5 minutes . . .
>
> Normally I do not worry about any of this, and use USB power. Except this
> time for this project we needed the canbus running, and powering via USB
> cause the canbus to be less than reliable.
>
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Maxim Podbereznyy <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> William, or short Vusb to 5V, the result is the same - total stability.
>> You can do it if you need to enable the USB-Host function at USB0
>>
>> 2015-08-08 23:22 GMT+03:00 William Hermans <[email protected]>:
>>
>>> So far shorting Vusb to ground seems to be doing the trick. We'll give
>>> it a couple days to be "sure". Prior to shorting Vusb to ground, this linux
>>> image would reboot several times a day ( 4-5 )
>>>
>>> william@xanbustester:~$ uptime
>>>>  13:20:26 up 15:28,  3 users,  load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.05
>>>> william@xanbustester:~$ uname -r
>>>> 4.2.0-rc4-bone2
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 5:31 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Starting new post . . .
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 5:19 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Ok, I'm stuck in a boot loop, what you see above is what I keep
>>>>> getting. Let me explore some.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Robert Nelson <[email protected]
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 7:13 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> > These TI kernels support nfsroot ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> They should. ;)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> bone kernel: bone patchset + mainline
>>>>>> ti kernel: bone patchset + ti patchset + mainline..
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
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