>
> *I'm using 3.8 for video acceleration and Android.  I have not been able
> to get more recent kernels to fully work with everything I need on BBB.*
>
> *I copied the dts file from the am33x-v3.8 tree into my kernel and was
> able to build and boot the kernel.  Now I'm trying to get the 4D LCD4 cape
> functioning.*
>

Is that even possible ? With the HDMI framer not even existing on the BBG?

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Keith Conger <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi William,
>
> Thanks for looking at this for me.
>
> I'm using 3.8 for video acceleration and Android.  I have not been able to
> get more recent kernels to fully work with everything I need on BBB.
>
> I copied the dts file from the am33x-v3.8 tree into my kernel and was able
> to build and boot the kernel.  Now I'm trying to get the 4D LCD4 cape
> functioning.
>
> Thanks,
> Keith
>
> On Tuesday, December 15, 2015 at 5:21:40 AM UTC-7, William Hermans wrote:
>>
>> OK, wow those instructions are whack. First of all this is the proper way
>> to use Robert's bb-kernel repo:
>>
>>
>> https://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBone+Black#BeagleBoneBlack-LinuxKernel
>>
>> Secondly, this builds all the necessary BBG files as well( as far as I
>> know ). So in short . . .
>>
>> $ git clone https://github.com/RobertCNelson/bb-kernel
>> $ cd bb-kernel/
>>
>> $ git checkout origin/am33x-v3.8 -b tmp
>>
>> Now you can build with:
>> $ ./build_kernel.sh
>>
>> *OR*
>>
>> $ ./build_deb.sh
>>
>> build_deb.sh will build a Debian package, that will allow you to install
>> this new kernel over the top of an existing kernel( and including
>> dependencies ) on an already working image. Extremely useful if you need
>> to make kernel tweaks only to a system.
>>
>> I am curious though. Any specific reason why you have to use a 3.8.x
>> kernel ? the 4.x kernels are pretty good now days . . .and they seem to be
>> noticeably faster too.
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 4:51 AM, William Hermans <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Doh, I just realized you're working with a 3.8.x kernel . . . These
>>> instructions above I believe will only work with 4.x, as that's what the
>>> sourced in this repo are meant for. However, I bet the device tree source
>>> files are exactly the same. But unsure if dt-bindings are different or not.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 4:45 AM, William Hermans <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Well I was attempting to create a *.dtbo file from the source, but here
>>>> this works:
>>>>
>>>> $ git clone https://github.com/RobertCNelson/dtb-rebuilder.git
>>>> Cloning into 'dtb-rebuilder'...
>>>> remote: Counting objects: 6357, done.
>>>> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (12/12), done.
>>>> remote: Total 6357 (delta 3), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 6343
>>>> Receiving objects: 100% (6357/6357), 4.38 MiB | 344 KiB/s, done.
>>>> Resolving deltas: 100% (2563/2563), done.
>>>>
>>>> $ cd dtb-rebuilder/
>>>>
>>>> $ make src/arm/am335x-bonegreen.dtb
>>>>   DTC     src/arm/am335x-bonegreen.dtb
>>>>
>>>> $ cp src/arm/am335x-bonegreen.dtb .
>>>>
>>>> $ ls
>>>> Bindings  COPYING  Makefile  README  *am335x-bonegreen.dtb*
>>>> dtc-overlay.sh  include  scripts  src
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 4:26 AM, William Hermans <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> strace output
>>>>>
>>>>> http://pastebin.com/8ype90wD
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm looking into it.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 4:16 AM, William Hermans <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> *One additional note: That git has the *bonegreen* dts file in it
>>>>>>> already. So git cloning that git, and running dtc in the src/arm/ 
>>>>>>> directory
>>>>>>> for that file should just work.*
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Following these line of reasoning, I get the same error. hmmm give me
>>>>>> a minute.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 4:01 AM, William Hermans <[email protected]>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> One additional note: That git has the *bonegreen* dts file in it
>>>>>>> already. So git cloning that git, and running dtc in the src/arm/ 
>>>>>>> directory
>>>>>>> for that file should just work.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 3:58 AM, William Hermans <[email protected]>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Your problem is very likely that you do not have the files
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> #include "am33xx.dtsi"
>>>>>>>> #include "am335x-bone-common.dtsi"
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> In your path. I get the same error here:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> $ dtc -O dtb -o am335x-bonegreen.dtbo -b 0 -@ am335x-bonegreen.dts
>>>>>>>> Error: am335x-bonegreen.dts:10.1-9 syntax error
>>>>>>>> FATAL ERROR: Unable to parse input tree
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> So, you missed a step somewhere. Which kernel version will the
>>>>>>>> target be using ? This should be trivial to fix, but the only option I 
>>>>>>>> can
>>>>>>>> think of offhand is git cloning
>>>>>>>> https://github.com/RobertCNelson/device-tree-rebasing, and then
>>>>>>>> placing your *bonegreen* dts file into the <base git>/src/arm/ 
>>>>>>>> directory,
>>>>>>>> and compiling manually. As I have no idea which instructions you are
>>>>>>>> following, and what the steps are.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> *OR*
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Perhaps placing am33xx.dtsi and am335x-bone-common.dtsi in the same
>>>>>>>> directory as am335x-bonegreen.dts, and try again. I've never done this
>>>>>>>> personally, but it should work. In fact, I think it makes more sense 
>>>>>>>> than
>>>>>>>> the first option I mention above. With one caveat: I do not recall if
>>>>>>>> either of these include files have further dependencies in this git 
>>>>>>>> tree.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 10:26 PM, Keith Conger <[email protected]
>>>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I'm trying to build a 3.8.13 kernel with the BBG patches from
>>>>>>>>> http://www.seeedstudio.com/recipe/373-how-to-compile-beaglebone-green-linux-kernel.html
>>>>>>>>> .
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I hit this error during the build:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> make[1]: Leaving directory
>>>>>>>>> `/home/keithconger/Projects/bbbandroid-bluez/kernel'
>>>>>>>>> make -C kernel ARCH=arm
>>>>>>>>> CROSS_COMPILE=/home/keithconger/Projects/bbbandroid-bluez/prebuilts/gcc/linux-x86/arm/arm-gnueabihf-4.7/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-
>>>>>>>>> dtbs
>>>>>>>>> make[1]: Entering directory
>>>>>>>>> `/home/keithconger/Projects/bbbandroid-bluez/kernel'
>>>>>>>>>   DTC     arch/arm/boot/dts/am335x-bone.dtb
>>>>>>>>>   DTC     arch/arm/boot/dts/am335x-boneblack.dtb
>>>>>>>>>   DTC     arch/arm/boot/dts/am335x-bonegreen.dtb
>>>>>>>>> Error: arch/arm/boot/dts/am335x-bonegreen.dts:45.15-16 syntax error
>>>>>>>>> FATAL ERROR: Unable to parse input tree
>>>>>>>>> make[2]: *** [arch/arm/boot/dts/am335x-bonegreen.dtb] Error 1
>>>>>>>>> make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
>>>>>>>>> make[1]: *** [dtbs] Error 2
>>>>>>>>> make[1]: Leaving directory
>>>>>>>>> `/home/keithconger/Projects/bbbandroid-bluez/kernel'
>>>>>>>>> make: *** [kernel_build] Error 2
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Line 45 and 46 are:
>>>>>>>>> 0x150 (PIN_INPUT | MUX_MODE1)   /* spi0_sclk.uart2_rxd */
>>>>>>>>> 0x154 (PIN_OUTPUT | MUX_MODE1)  /* spi0_d0.uart2_txd */
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Anyone know how to resolve this?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>
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