New findings: The problem is different, it happens only with USB 3 flash drives, USB 2 devices are powered properly. I don't have real statistics, but the newest SanDisk's drives won't work.
However, it's hard to believe that a tiny USB drive requests more than 500mA to assume that the controller and/or u-boot decide to not provide power to it. Sergey Excerpts from Lokesh Vutla's message from Mon 10-Jul-17 18:47: > > > On 7/8/2017 8:50 AM, Sergey Manucharian wrote: > > (sorry for top posting, sending from a phone) > > > > I would agree it's intentional at the first stage: we don't want to power > > external devices which we may not need, however, the "usb start" command > > must enable it, otherwise it's useless... > > Right. Any chance you bisected to the commit which caused the issue? > > Thanks and regards, > Lokesh > > > > > -S. > > Original Message > > From: Tom Rini > > Sent: Friday, July 7, 2017 18:41 > > To: sm; Lokesh Vutla > > Cc: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [U-Boot] USB power is not enabled fro BeagleBone Black > > > > On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 12:51:41PM -0700, sm wrote: > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> The latest git version does not turn on USB power on BeagleBone Black: > >> "usb start" reports that the port is not accessible, but with external > >> power provided it detects the plugged in device. > > > > Yes, I think this may be intentional? > > _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot

