On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 10:06 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm trying to sync up with the latest & greatest image-builder work by
> Robert Nelson.  So far so good, I have my debian jessie 4.1.10-ti-r21 BBB
> image built and flashed; I've converted my .dts *back* into an overlay for
> the 4.1 capemgr with the kernels.
>
> The cape EEPROM is properly flashed, but while capemgr detects it, it
> doesn't seem to be able to load the BB-SERIAL-00A0.dtbo located in
> /lib/firmware:
>
> [    3.588753] bone_capemgr bone_capemgr: Baseboard:
> 'A335BNLT,0A6A,xxxxBBBKxxxx'
> [    3.588789] bone_capemgr bone_capemgr:
> compatible-baseboard=ti,beaglebone-black - #slots=4
> [    3.632229] bone_capemgr bone_capemgr: slot #0: 'Serial Util
> Board,00A0,WinstonSmith,BB-SERIAL'
> [    3.688184] bone_capemgr bone_capemgr: slot #1: No cape found
> [    3.748178] bone_capemgr bone_capemgr: slot #2: No cape found
> [    3.808177] bone_capemgr bone_capemgr: slot #3: No cape found
> [    3.814213] bone_capemgr bone_capemgr: initialized OK.
> ...
> [    4.838440] bone_capemgr bone_capemgr: loader: failed to load slot-0
> BB-SERIAL:00A0 (prio 0)
> [    9.857097] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): mounted filesystem with ordered data
> mode. Opts: (null)
>
> Basically, the .dts simply enables UART1,2,4,5 and a DS1307 RTC.
>
> I know the .dts is ok as I can manually load the .dtbo with:
>
> echo 'BB-SERIAL' > /sys/devices/platform/bone_capemgr/slots
>
> But I can't get it to automatically load, I've tried the EEPROM detection,
> adding it to uEnv.txt and even /etc/default/capemgr (which used to be the
> only solution for 3.8).
>
> Back in the 3.8 days, there was an issue with the root filesystem not being
> mounted when the capemgr did it's detection ... is this still an issue (see
> last line of dmesg output above -- I did try adding rootwait to the kernel
> cmdline).  In 3.8, this was easily resolved by adding CAPE=BB-SERIAL to the
> /etc/default/capemgr (which doesn't seem to work now).

This isn't an issue anymore.. Make sure your *.dtbo is under
/lib/firmware then run:

sudo update-initramfs -uk `uname -r`

to make sure the *.dtbo get's copied to the intrd. (it'll still read
it from the /lib/firmware)

otherwise, dmesg | grep cape


Regards,

-- 
Robert Nelson
https://rcn-ee.com/

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