[craneboard] are there prebuilt images for craneboard?

i was zipping thru the craneboard wiki page here:

http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/CraneBoard

and while it explains how to reflash the NAND with new images (for
x-loader, u-boot, etc.), it doesn't mention where one might find
prebuilt images for those.

  that page *does* mention, later on, how to build new images, but as
a sanity check, i iike to have verified, prebuilt images as a
baseline in case something goes wrong.

  did i just miss it? is there a location for those images? thanks.

rday

Hi Robert,

    CraneBoard will have the images loaded on NAND by default. However you
can find the prebuilt images from the below mentioned FTP link:

ftp://omapevm:Mistral123@ftp.mistralsolutions.com/CraneBoard_binaries

Regards,
N.S.SriHarsha

Use narcissus :slight_smile:

Hi Robert,

   CraneBoard will have the images loaded on NAND by default.

  yup, i realize that.

However you can find the prebuilt images from the below mentioned
FTP link:

ftp://omapevm:Mistral123@ftp.mistralsolutions.com/CraneBoard_binaries

  excellent. as i mentioned, they're just for the sake of sanity
checking, to compare against what i can build with OE. thanks.

rday

Note that those have a misconfigured MLO, broken kernel and a filesystem that isn't using the VFP or NEON hardware.

Hi Koen,

    Sorry for the confusion, I had to rename the "x-loader.bin.ift" to "mlo". It has been implemented and tested successfully.

Regards,
N.S.SriHarsha

Hi Koen,

  Sorry for the confusion, I had to rename the "x-loader.bin.ift" to "mlo". It has been implemented and tested successfully.

That still doesn't fix the wrong EMIF timings

for what it's worth, the latest dev branch of OE seems to have built
craneboard images for x-loader, u-boot and the kernel, and is
currently plowing its way through building x11-gpe-image.

  i'm just working my way thru this page:

http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/CraneBoard

to make sure everything seems sane. so far, so good.

rday

I must stress that the Openembedded section in there is wrong and should only contain a pointer to http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/building-angstrom .

And to make it worse, the prebuilt images weren't generated using those instructions anyway, they were using arago since the bootlog on that page contains things like:

    udev: deprecated sysfs layout; update the kernel or disable CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED; some udev features will not work correctly

and:

    udevd[426]: inotify_add_watch(3, (null), 10) failed: Bad address

also:
  
    WARNING: Couldn't open directory /lib/modules/2.6.32: No such file or directory

None of those bugs exist in vanilla angstrom. I already told Russel and the mistral guys about all that 2 weeks ago, I hope they can and will update the wiki.

regards,

Koen

what specifically is wrong with the instructions at the TI wiki
page? given that OE is fairly straightforward, the only
craneboard-specific value i can see there is:

     MACHINE = "am3517-crane"

and the setting of BBPATH seems to be incorrect, it reads:

   $ export BBPATH=/stuff/build:/stuff/openembedded

but i don't see the value of that first directory name (the "build"
directory), so i left it out. but are the rest of the bitbake
instructions correct as far as targets are concerned? at the very
least, it appears to be building for me.

rday

It's building angstrom without following the angstrom instructions. People are free to do so, but don't cry if it doesn't work anymore. Considering that OE is going to change *a lot* in the coming weeks, pointing to the angstrom instructions will always work.

Hi Robert,

I will try to upload these images on craneboard.org ASAP.

with regards,
- Nagendra.

Behalf Of Craneboard

Hi Koen,

    Can you please elaborate where in the log have you been looking for EMIF timings?

Core Clock = 332MHz

SDRC Clock = 166MHz

Regards,
N.S.SriHarsha

to address koen's concerns, can you also post the recipe used to
generate these images? that's at least as important.

rday