Running on a BBW. ~# cat /etc/dogtag BeagleBoard.org Debian Image 2015-11-12
~# uname -a Linux alarmbone 4.1.12-ti-r29 #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Nov 9 22:46:19 UTC 2015 armv7l GNU/Linux ~# cat $SLOTS 0: PF---- -1 1: PF---- -1 2: PF---- -1 3: PF---- -1 4: P-O-L- 0 Override Board Name,00A0,Override Manuf,univ-all I'm basically using all of the GPIO on the P8 Header. I now want a UART or two, for some new functionality, seems UART1 & UART2 only use pins on P9 Header so in /boot/uEnv.txt so I added: ##Example v4.1.x #cape_disable=bone_capemgr.disable_partno= cape_enable=bone_capemgr.enable_partno=BB-UART1 After I reboot the slot 4: becomes BB-UART1 and a simple loopback test with minicom after jumpering P9_22 to P9_24 shows the UART /dev/ttyO1 is working. But none of the P8 GPIO are exported. No problem as my code exported them anyways, even though it seemed not required with 4.1.x kernels and the BBW "default" dtb, but seems P8_20 & P8_21 are now used for something else and my code always reads them as low which messes everything up. I was expecting an error when I did the export if there was a conflict, but didn't catch any in my code (assumed the open would fail if there was a problem). I also tried cape_enable=bone_capemgr.enable_partno=cape_universal,BB-UART1 with and without cape_universal=enable on the cmdline. The slot 4: line disappears and a 5: line is added with BB-UART1 but no change, UART1 still works and p8 20&21 are still stuck at low. Is my lib/firmware and/or kernel out of date, or somehow wrong? I thought UART1 was supposed to have rts & cts on P9 pins 19 & 20 according the tables in "Exploring Beaglebone" book with apparently no UART1 functions on P8. Is there an easy fix? I'd prefer to have RTS/CTS available, although the device I'm ordering is supposed to support Xon/Xoff protocol as well. I've been looking at https://github.com/cdsteinkuehler/beaglebone-universal-io and maybe using config-pin to enable uart1 but my /sys/devices/ paths aren't matching up very well with the docs so I'm loathe to just stumble around with my very limited knowledge of pinmux and modes. --wally. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
