Re: [beagleboard] Can't Flash BBB

2015-06-07 Thread evilwulfie
you cannot use the USB power while flashing you need a 2 amp power supply i posted a few days ago a mail that tells you the links for the correct ones On 6/7/2015 5:43 AM, clickco...@gmail.com wrote: New to the world of BBB and bought one and am stuck at flashing the eMMC on the BBB. I

[beagleboard] Re: Debian 8 (Console 5-31) Bug report (does not respond to serial port input after boot.

2015-06-07 Thread Graham
BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-8.0-console-armhf-2015-05-31-2gb.img does the same thing. == On Sunday, June 7, 2015 at 2:59:01 PM UTC-5, Graham wrote: REGARDING: bone-debian-8.0-console-armhf-2015-05-31-2gb.img BUG: Does not respond to inputs on serial port tty0 after boot. Note:

Re: [beagleboard] Can't Flash BBB

2015-06-07 Thread William Hermans
*a) downloaded latest BBB image at: http://beagleboard.org/latest-images http://beagleboard.org/latest-images* Which image ? The main link is for a 4GB sdcard image only. The smaller print link under that links to the elinux page which in turn has links for many different images including

[beagleboard] Debian 8 (Console 5-31) Bug report (does not respond to serial port input after boot.

2015-06-07 Thread Graham
REGARDING: bone-debian-8.0-console-armhf-2015-05-31-2gb.img BUG: Does not respond to inputs on serial port tty0 after boot. Note: bone-debian-8.0-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2015-05-31-4gb.img does not have this problem. bone-debian-8.0-console-armhf-2015-05-17-2gb.img does not have this problem.

[beagleboard] Re: How to enable all i2c

2015-06-07 Thread Jon Peterson
My experience is that the echo only works if you are logged on as root. it never worked with sudo for me. I found uEnv.txt at /boot/uEnv.txt For fear of opening a can of worms, the numbering of the three I2C buses is, for lack of a better term, illogical. From the aspect of an engineer,

[beagleboard] BBB not Flashing the eMMC

2015-06-07 Thread clickcount
New to the world of BBB and bought one and am stuck at flashing the eMMC on the BBB. I followed the instructions on the BBB website, but the thing just won't flash - I'm sure it's something I'm not doing right, but it seems dozens/hundreds/thousands of similar folks have the same exact

[beagleboard] Can't Flash BBB

2015-06-07 Thread clickcount
New to the world of BBB and bought one and am stuck at flashing the eMMC on the BBB. I followed the instructions on the BBB website, but the thing just won't flash - I'm sure it's something I'm not doing right, but it seems dozens/hundreds/thousands of similar folks have the same exact problem.

[beagleboard] Disable Autoshutdown on Power Outage

2015-06-07 Thread micha151189
Hello everyone, I have connected a 3,7V cell Battery to the Beaglebone Black. The problem is that every time I unplug the main 5V power supply from the board, the board is going into a safe shutdown mode (since the battery still supplies the board with power). Is there a way to disable this

[beagleboard] Re: Problems with CAN in BBB

2015-06-07 Thread micha151189
Hey Bruno, regarding your Step 3) Try ip link set can0 up type can bitrate 125000 listen-only off. After this Step send some CAN Messages to the Controller and enter ifconfig in the console window. Please tell me, if you can see the can0 device. Did the device read any messages (RX entry)

[beagleboard] Re: How to enable I2C P9_24 P926 (BBB RevC)?

2015-06-07 Thread scout3801
Hi Robert, did you ever get this to work? If so, would you mind sharing the trick? -- 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

Re: [beagleboard] BBB not Flashing the eMMC

2015-06-07 Thread Scott Evans
I just went through this same thing a couple days ago. From what I can tell (and others, please correct me if I'm wrong), there are two different types of images. One just runs off the SD card (which I am guessing is what you are using); the other is configured to actually flash the image onto

[beagleboard] Re: How to enable all i2c

2015-06-07 Thread Jon Peterson
My experience is that the echo only works if you are logged on as root. it never worked with sudo for me. I found uEnv.txt at /boot/uEnv.txt For fear of opening a can of worms, the numbering of the three I2C buses is, for lack of a better term, illogical. From the aspect of an engineer,

Re: [beagleboard] Enable SPI1 on 4.1 kernel?

2015-06-07 Thread Drew Fustini
On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 9:37 PM, Robert Nelson robertcnel...@gmail.com wrote: https://github.com/RobertCNelson/bb-kernel/tree/am33x-v4.1 thanks, cloning it now and will do a build. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are

Re: [beagleboard] Enable SPI1 on 4.1 kernel?

2015-06-07 Thread Drew Fustini
On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 9:37 PM, Robert Nelson robertcnel...@gmail.com wrote: https://github.com/RobertCNelson/bb-kernel/tree/am33x-v4.1 thanks, boots and loads the SPI1 cape: root@beaglebone:~# uname -a Linux beaglebone 4.1.0-rc6-bone6.6-00066-g75ea467 #1 Sun Jun 7 23:18:32 CDT 2015 armv7l

Re: [beagleboard] Speed of DTB processing vs hard-coded (on BBB)?

2015-06-07 Thread Rick Mann
That's interesting. Unfortunately, while my primary app is a C program I wrote, I also (currently) rely on node.js to provide a configuration server. This server does NOT have to be up and running immediately. However, an upcoming enhancement to my app will have it fetching data from the

Re: [beagleboard] Enable SPI1 on 4.1 kernel?

2015-06-07 Thread Drew Fustini
On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 9:13 PM, William Hermans yyrk...@gmail.com wrote: CONFIG_BONE_CAPEMGR=y thanks, good point! -- 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

Re: [beagleboard] Speed of DTB processing vs hard-coded (on BBB)?

2015-06-07 Thread Rick Mann
On Jun 7, 2015, at 16:54 , rh_ richard_hubb...@lavabit.com wrote: Wouldn't you want to know how much time it takes before deciding to reduce the time it takes. Hence my question. How long is your power on to my C user code running? Forever. This is an embedded device that I'd like to be

Re: [beagleboard] Speed of DTB processing vs hard-coded (on BBB)?

2015-06-07 Thread William Hermans
And as Robert Nelson points out towards the end of that post. there is also Falcon mode for uboot. Pretty much skips most of uboot, and goes straight into loading the kernel. How much time that will actually save ? dunno . . . On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 9:51 PM, William Hermans yyrk...@gmail.com

Re: [beagleboard] Speed of DTB processing vs hard-coded (on BBB)?

2015-06-07 Thread William Hermans
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/beagleboard/Qt$20boot/beagleboard/iOOM7utU1Nw/L67y8Qi7r9wJ The video I was thinking of was actually an imx6 board. But liyaoshi says that 1 s boot times should be achievable. Scroll down to liyaoshi's posts an see what he / she recommends for faster

Re: [beagleboard] Speed of DTB processing vs hard-coded (on BBB)?

2015-06-07 Thread Rick Mann
Awesome, thanks for the links! On Jun 7, 2015, at 21:58 , William Hermans yyrk...@gmail.com wrote: And as Robert Nelson points out towards the end of that post. there is also Falcon mode for uboot. Pretty much skips most of uboot, and goes straight into loading the kernel. How much time

Re: [beagleboard] Speed of DTB processing vs hard-coded (on BBB)?

2015-06-07 Thread Rick Mann
Thanks, William. Yeah, it could be from hibernate, but I don't think so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fjfqz6FxC8 And it looks like it's 3 seconds power-to-app. I can probably live with that. On Jun 7, 2015, at 15:38 , William Hermans yyrk...@gmail.com wrote: I would think hard

Re: [beagleboard] Speed of DTB processing vs hard-coded (on BBB)?

2015-06-07 Thread William Hermans
Rick, If we're talking uboot- executable, no Linux, you can probably do the same. One of the beagleboard.org google group community liyoshi I think had a Qt app booting in under 5 seconds too I think. It's been a while since I've seen that post, and do not remember what topic is was under . . .

Re: [beagleboard] Enable SPI1 on 4.1 kernel?

2015-06-07 Thread William Hermans
*root@beaglebone:/# cat /boot/uEnv.txt |egrep -v '^(#|$)'* * uname_r=4.1.0-rc6-bone6* * cmdline=quiet init=/lib/systemd/systemd* * bone_capemgr.enable_partno=BB-**SPIDEV0* * cape_disable=capemgr.disable_**partno=BB-BONELT-HDMI,BB-* *BONELT-HDMIN,BB-BONE-EMMC-2G*

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Debian 8 (Console 5-31) Bug report (does not respond to serial port input after boot.

2015-06-07 Thread William Hermans
tty0 should be ttyS0 now I believe. Where this is changed with images using systemd I am not sure, but with SYSV this was changed in /etc/inittab. On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Graham gra...@flex-radio.com wrote: BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-8.0-console-armhf-2015-05-31-2gb.img does the same

[beagleboard] Speed of DTB processing vs hard-coded (on BBB)?

2015-06-07 Thread Rick Mann
I'm working on reducing the boot time (power on to my C user code running) as much as possible. I've seen demonstrations of an RPi booting in under 1 second. Does anyone have any idea how much overhead is introduced by the DTB processing? If I were to remove the DTB support in a custom kernel,

Re: [beagleboard] Enable SPI1 on 4.1 kernel?

2015-06-07 Thread Drew Fustini
On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Robert Nelson robertcnel...@gmail.com wrote: Do you want to test the 4.1 spi overlays?? ;) thanks, that did work for me. although the uEnv.txt settings seemed to have no effect. I had to echo the cape name into slots: root@beaglebone:/# uname -a Linux

[beagleboard] DragonBoard 410c

2015-06-07 Thread Rick Mann
This was probably mentioned already, but I just remembered it. I saw this at MakerFaire: http://www.arrow.com/campaigns-na/qualcomm/dragonboard-410c/ 64-bit quad-core ARM 1 GB RAM, 8GB eMMC Wi-Fi, BT 4.1, GPS 2+1 USB µSD HDMI While

Re: [beagleboard] Enable SPI1 on 4.1 kernel?

2015-06-07 Thread Drew Fustini
On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Robert Nelson robertcnel...@gmail.com wrote: sudo apt-get install linux-image-4.1.0-rc6-bone6 I want to compile modules in drivers/staging/fbtft. How can I get the source for 4.1.0-rc6-bone6? I don't see a tag for it in:

Re: [beagleboard] Speed of DTB processing vs hard-coded (on BBB)?

2015-06-07 Thread William Hermans
I would think hard coding into the main DTB would add time. A couple ways to think about it would be you *could* theoretically in userspace after the board has booted. Then systemd is supposed to be better at parallel tasks when booting compared to SYSV. Which again *could* mean that keeping

Re: [beagleboard] Enable SPI1 on 4.1 kernel?

2015-06-07 Thread William Hermans
cape_enable is a variable that places the following text into the Linux boot time parameters. If you ... debian@beaglebone:~$ *cat /proc/cmdline* console=tty0 console=ttyO0,115200n8 beaglebone-capemgr.enable_partno=BB-CAN1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rootfstype=ext4 rootwait fixrtc You most likely will

Re: [beagleboard] Enable SPI1 on 4.1 kernel?

2015-06-07 Thread Drew Fustini
On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 5:46 PM, William Hermans yyrk...@gmail.com wrote: cape_enable=bone_capemgr.enable_partno=BB-SPIDEV0 thanks! -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups BeagleBoard group. To

Re: [beagleboard] Enable SPI1 on 4.1 kernel?

2015-06-07 Thread William Hermans
I do not think you can build *bone6 per se. Unless Robert gives you exact steps, but there is this. https://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBone+Black#BeagleBoneBlack-LinuxKernel Which if I'm not mistaken Roberts scripts should pull in all the latest patches. Perhaps you can dissect the

Re: [beagleboard] Enable SPI1 on 4.1 kernel?

2015-06-07 Thread William Hermans
Drew, Oh hey did you check this out ? https://github.com/beagleboard/bb.org-overlays/blob/master/readme.md Specifically Kernel with CONFIG_BONE_CAPEMGR support: zcat /proc/config.gz | grep CONFIG_BONE_CAPEMGR CONFIG_BONE_CAPEMGR=y On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 7:01 PM, William Hermans

Re: [beagleboard] Enable SPI1 on 4.1 kernel?

2015-06-07 Thread Robert Nelson
On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 8:46 PM, Drew Fustini pdp7p...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Robert Nelson robertcnel...@gmail.com wrote: sudo apt-get install linux-image-4.1.0-rc6-bone6 I want to compile modules in drivers/staging/fbtft. How can I get the source for