On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 11:40 PM, Johan Henselmans
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for the explanation, but could you elaborate a bit more on it?
>
> As far as I understand the world as it is now works  this way:
>
> 0- If you are running anything beyond kernel 4.1 you should be using uboot
> overlays. Be careful to load the latest bb-cape overlays and be sure that
> uboot is the latest version, check via /opt/script/tools/version.sh,
> look for
> bootloader:[eMMC-(default)]:[/dev/mmcblk1]:[U-Boot 2015.01-00001-gb2412df]
> this is wrong:
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Should be something like:
> bootloader:[eMMC-(default)]:[/dev/mmcblk1]:[U-Boot
> 2017.09-00002-g0f3f1c7907]
>
> If not, do
> /opt/scripts/tools/developers/update_bootloader.sh
> This should put an updated bootloader in the boot block of your Beaglebone.
> Careful: you should have booted from the internal flash, not from an
> external flash-card.
>
> 1-Overlays are now loaded in /boot/uEnv.txt at boot time.
> Cape-universal or the other universal capes make it possible to use
> config-pin to configure the pins that you want to use,
> example:
> config-pin -l p9-21
> gives all the possible settings
> config-pin -q p9-21
> gives the current setting
> config-pin -a p9-21 i2c
> makes the pin respond to i2c signals.
>
> <SPECULATIVE STEPS: DO NOT USE IN THE REAL WORLD:>
>
> 2-if another overlay is loaded in /bootuEnv.txt which is not of the
> universal type, config-pin does not work anymore????

Correct, someone needs to write a pin manager for U-Boot..  Currently
what we do, if a custom cape is defined, cape_universal is disabled..

However you can toggle oneboard devices:

https://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#U-Boot_Disable_on-board_devices

and the cape-universal knows what to do..

> 3-To find out which overlay is loaded if config-pin does not run, use
> command ?????? to find out which overlay(s) is/are currently running

sudo /opt/scripts/tools/version.sh

&

USB Serial Debug cable, to track what U-Boot did..

&

cat /proc/cmdline | sed 's/ /\n/g' | grep uboot_detected_capes= || true

(very new: uboot_detected_capes )

> 4-If you want to make a combination of some of the universal settings plus
> an overlay, ??????

Source is here:

https://github.com/beagleboard/bb.org-overlays

here is cape universal with

https://github.com/beagleboard/bb.org-overlays/blob/master/src/arm/univ-bbb-EVA-00A0.dts


>
> </SPECULATIVE STEPS: DO NOT USE IN THE REAL WORLD>
>
> I am pretty sure it's all wrong, but I am struggling with the info too. I am
> trying to modernize gobot to the latest uboot overlay stufff (it is still
> looking for cape_mgr slots file), but it is not exactly clear how I can find
> out if an overlay is set, or if I am able to set a specific pin after some
> overlay has been loaded.


Regards,

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

-- 
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].
To view this discussion on the web visit 
https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CAOCHtYgtyk3eKh_7-3dVnVgTX%3DjgXuRYndrB-vH10XaF2aPw_A%40mail.gmail.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

Reply via email to