cape-universal & 4.1.x = default.. ;)

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Hey Guys,

In the v4.1.x-ti tree, we have a couple more hdmi-audio pins but
otherwise i've enabled everything in cape-universal now:

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

I'd like to enable cape-universal by default on bootup, under the
conditions that:

/boot/uEnv.txt
no custom dtb= is defined
no custom cape_enable= is defined

and no other capes are enable in the slots..

Currently you can enable it via:

config-pin overlay cape-universal

Thoughts?

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Sounds reasonable to me. This is Charles S’ universal IO ? Seems like it but . . . no hands on with it to date. Any non trivial implication that you can think of ?

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root@beaglebone:~# config-pin overlay cape-universal

root@beaglebone:~# config-pin -l P9.24
default gpio gpio_pu gpio_pd uart can i2c pruin
root@beaglebone:~# config-pin -l P9.26
default gpio gpio_pu gpio_pd uart can i2c pruin

root@beaglebone:~# config-pin P9.24 can
root@beaglebone:~# config-pin P9.26 can

root@beaglebone:~# config-pin -q P9.24
P9_24 Mode: can
root@beaglebone:~# config-pin -q P9.26
P9_26 Mode: can

At which point can1 interface is wired to P9.24/P9.26 pin's...

Regards,

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Not sure I would ever use it, but as long as it would not conflict with eeprom based, or standard capes. I see no reason why not to include it.

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e.g. I do not fool around with hardware - much. From the physical aspect anyway. I usually intrenched in something like I’m doing now. Which is basically a CANBus to http + websockets interface.

6

My thoughts too, just want to make sure we don't load it over
something else. :wink: Just remembered two other places...

/boot/uEnv.txt
no custom dtb= is defined
no custom cape_enable= is defined

/proc/cmdline
no extra cape_enable's..

/etc/default/capemgr (that 3.8.x hack i did..)

and no other capes are enable in the slots..

Regards,

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Sounds good to me, assuming it doesn't interfere with any of the stock software Jason's running.

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Well, the BoneScript and PyBBIO libraries both need to be updated for
4.1. Shouldn't be that hard with a focused effort. Patches welcome.

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Hi Robert,

I'd like to enable cape-universal by default on bootup, under the conditions
that:

/boot/uEnv.txt
no custom dtb= is defined
no custom cape_enable= is defined

Is there a document anywhere which describes the hierarchy of the uEnv files and how they define/override booting/environment/kernel args etc?

TAIA

Jerry

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Not really, as with uEnv.txt your free to update any variable and
create variables...

For boot order you can take a look at this:
http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:U-boot_partitioning_layout_2.0

But the real important one is:

"mmcargs=setenv bootargs console=${console} " \
  "${optargs} " \
  "${cape_disable} " \
  "${cape_enable} " \
  "root=${mmcroot} " \
  "rootfstype=${mmcrootfstype} " \
  "${cmdline}\0" \

and

"if test -n ${dtb}; then " \
   "setenv fdtfile ${dtb};" \
   "echo using ${fdtfile} ...;" \
"fi;" \

https://github.com/RobertCNelson/Bootloader-Builder/blob/master/patches/v2015.07/0001-am335x_evm-uEnv.txt-bootz-n-fixes.patch

Regards,

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Cool, thanks.

Not really, as with uEnv.txt your free to update any variable and create
variables...

For boot order you can take a look at this:
http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:U-boot_partitioning_layout_2.0

That's one of the critters ...

But the real important one is:

"mmcargs=setenv bootargs console=${console} " \
  "${optargs} " \
  "${cape_disable} " \
  "${cape_enable} " \
  "root=${mmcroot} " \
  "rootfstype=${mmcrootfstype} " \
  "${cmdline}\0" \

Yep.

Question: Is it possible to override the TFTPROOT setting? i.e. set up each board so they reference different sub-directories on the TFTP server? Can this be done in uEnv alone?

TAIA

Jerry

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So it's setup as:

"server_ip=192.168.1.100\0" \
"gw_ip=192.168.1.1\0" \
"netmask=255.255.255.0\0" \
"hostname=\0" \
"device=eth0\0" \
"autoconf=off\0" \
"root_dir=/home/userid/targetNFS\0" \
"nfs_options=,vers=3\0" \
"nfsrootfstype=ext4 rootwait fixrtc\0" \
"nfsargs=setenv bootargs console=${console} " \
   "${optargs} " \
   "${cape_disable} " \
   "${cape_enable} " \
   "root=/dev/nfs rw " \
   "rootfstype=${nfsrootfstype} " \
   "nfsroot=${nfsroot} " \
   "ip=${ip} " \
   "${cmdline}\0" \

Just set each bbb to have a different "root_dir=" ..

Regards,

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Robert, that sounds great to me.

Well, the BoneScript and PyBBIO libraries both need to be updated for
4.1. Shouldn’t be that hard with a focused effort. Patches welcome.

My thoughts now, if cape-universal is loaded by default, would be to use cape-universal in BoneScript/PyBBIO if it’s loaded, and otherwise to use the current custom overlay method. How’s that sound to you, Jason?

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Okay this now enabled:

https://github.com/RobertCNelson/boot-scripts/blob/master/boot/am335x_evm.sh#L213

#default (dtb=am335x-boneblack.dtb)
config-pin overlay cape-universaln

#dtb=am335x-boneblack-overlay.dtb
config-pin overlay cape-universal
config-pin overlay cape-univ-hdmi
config-pin overlay cape-univ-audio
config-pin overlay cape-univ-emmc

#dtb=am335x-boneblack-emmc-overlay.dtb
config-pin overlay cape-universal
config-pin overlay cape-univ-hdmi
config-pin overlay cape-univ-audio

#dtb=am335x-boneblack-hdmi-overlay.dtb
config-pin overlay cape-universal
config-pin overlay cape-univ-emmc

#dtb=am335x-boneblack-nhdmi-overlay.dtb
config-pin overlay cape-universal
config-pin overlay cape-univ-audio
config-pin overlay cape-univ-emmc

I think this takes care of all the pin's..

Regards,

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Hi

"root_dir=/home/userid/targetNFS\0" \
Just set each bbb to have a different "root_dir=" ..

Yep, I get (and do) that for NFS. But can you do the same with TFTP booting? Is there a TFTP root dir var?

TAIA

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We just load them blindly:

+ "tftp ${loadaddr} ${bootfile}; " \
+ "tftp ${fdtaddr} dtbs/${fdtfile}; " \

(uname_r)
+ "tftp ${loadaddr} vmlinuz-${uname_r}; " \
+ "tftp ${fdtaddr} dtbs/${uname_r}/${fdtfile}; " \

I guess we could do: ${tftp_dir}

+ "tftp ${loadaddr} ${tftp_dir}/${bootfile}; " \
+ "tftp ${fdtaddr} ${tftp_dir}/dtbs/${fdtfile}; " \

(uname_r)
+ "tftp ${loadaddr} ${tftp_dir}/vmlinuz-${uname_r}; " \
+ "tftp ${fdtaddr} ${tftp_dir}/dtbs/${uname_r}/${fdtfile}; " \

Regards,

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I guess we could do: ${tftp_dir}

+ "tftp ${loadaddr} ${tftp_dir}/${bootfile}; " \ "tftp ${fdtaddr}
+ ${tftp_dir}/dtbs/${fdtfile}; " \

(uname_r)
+ "tftp ${loadaddr} ${tftp_dir}/vmlinuz-${uname_r}; " \ "tftp ${fdtaddr}
+ ${tftp_dir}/dtbs/${uname_r}/${fdtfile}; " \

Yep, that's what I had in mind. Let me see if I can make the changes here. If so I can do a PR on Github.

Thanks again.

Jerry

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Pushed:

https://github.com/RobertCNelson/Bootloader-Builder/commit/92a2bb7cce78b7d8b265b0ac70bb7fcc0f4b444b

Currently building, once built, it'll be the default..

Regards,

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Pushed:

https://github.com/RobertCNelson/Bootloader-
Builder/commit/92a2bb7cce78b7d8b265b0ac70bb7fcc0f4b444b

Ideal. Cheers.

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Robert, that sounds great to me.

Well, the BoneScript and PyBBIO libraries both need to be updated for
4.1. Shouldn't be that hard with a focused effort. Patches welcome.

My thoughts now, if cape-universal is loaded by default, would be to use
cape-universal in BoneScript/PyBBIO if it's loaded, and otherwise to use the
current custom overlay method. How's that sound to you, Jason?

Yeah, I also like this loaded by default. Much cleaner for the script code. Disable only if an EEPROM says load something in conflict or a command-line option says so.