> On Oct 14, 2015, at 20:15 , Robert Nelson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 10:06 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I'm trying to sync up with the latest & greatest image-builder work by
>> Robert Nelson.  So far so good, I have my debian jessie 4.1.10-ti-r21 BBB
>> image built and flashed; I've converted my .dts *back* into an overlay for
>> the 4.1 capemgr with the kernels.
>> 
>> The cape EEPROM is properly flashed, but while capemgr detects it, it
>> doesn't seem to be able to load the BB-SERIAL-00A0.dtbo located in
>> /lib/firmware:
>> 
>> [    3.588753] bone_capemgr bone_capemgr: Baseboard:
>> 'A335BNLT,0A6A,xxxxBBBKxxxx'
>> [    3.588789] bone_capemgr bone_capemgr:
>> compatible-baseboard=ti,beaglebone-black - #slots=4
>> [    3.632229] bone_capemgr bone_capemgr: slot #0: 'Serial Util
>> Board,00A0,WinstonSmith,BB-SERIAL'
>> [    3.688184] bone_capemgr bone_capemgr: slot #1: No cape found
>> [    3.748178] bone_capemgr bone_capemgr: slot #2: No cape found
>> [    3.808177] bone_capemgr bone_capemgr: slot #3: No cape found
>> [    3.814213] bone_capemgr bone_capemgr: initialized OK.
>> ...
>> [    4.838440] bone_capemgr bone_capemgr: loader: failed to load slot-0
>> BB-SERIAL:00A0 (prio 0)
>> [    9.857097] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): mounted filesystem with ordered data
>> mode. Opts: (null)
>> 
>> Basically, the .dts simply enables UART1,2,4,5 and a DS1307 RTC.
>> 
>> I know the .dts is ok as I can manually load the .dtbo with:
>> 
>> echo 'BB-SERIAL' > /sys/devices/platform/bone_capemgr/slots
>> 
>> But I can't get it to automatically load, I've tried the EEPROM detection,
>> adding it to uEnv.txt and even /etc/default/capemgr (which used to be the
>> only solution for 3.8).
>> 
>> Back in the 3.8 days, there was an issue with the root filesystem not being
>> mounted when the capemgr did it's detection ... is this still an issue (see
>> last line of dmesg output above -- I did try adding rootwait to the kernel
>> cmdline).  In 3.8, this was easily resolved by adding CAPE=BB-SERIAL to the
>> /etc/default/capemgr (which doesn't seem to work now).
> 
> This isn't an issue anymore.. Make sure your *.dtbo is under
> /lib/firmware then run:
> 
> sudo update-initramfs -uk `uname -r`
> 
> to make sure the *.dtbo get's copied to the intrd. (it'll still read
> it from the /lib/firmware)

I'm a little confused. Are they read from /lib/firmware always? Why do they 
have to be in initrd? And how does the behavior differ between 3.8 and 4.1?

Thanks,


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Rick Mann
[email protected]


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