New Device Tree Do not Change Pin Values

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I am trying a PRU example from Derek Molloy’s book, however whatever I do, pin values do not change. Could you please check what I am doing wrong?

dts file:

`
/* Device Tree Overlay for enabling the pins that are used in Chapter 13

  • This overlay is based on the BB-PRU-01 overlay
  • Written by Derek Molloy for the book "Exploring BeagleBone: Tools and
  • Techniques for Building with Embedded Linux" by John Wiley & Sons, 2014
  • ISBN 9781118935125. Please see the file README.md in the repository root
  • directory for copyright and GNU GPLv3 license information.
    */
    /dts-v1/;
    /plugin/;

/ {
compatible = “ti,beaglebone”, “ti,beaglebone-black”;

part-number = “EBB-PRU-Example”;
version = “00A0”;

/* This overlay uses the following resources */
exclusive-use =
“P9.11”, “P9.13”, “P9.27”, “P9.28”, “pru0”;

fragment@0 {
target = <&am33xx_pinmux>;
overlay {

gpio_pins: pinmux_gpio_pins { // The GPIO pins
pinctrl-single,pins = <
0x070 0x07 // P9_11 MODE7 | OUTPUT | GPIO pull-down
0x074 0x27 // P9_13 MODE7 | INPUT | GPIO pull-down

;
};

pru_pru_pins: pinmux_pru_pru_pins { // The PRU pin modes
pinctrl-single,pins = <
0x1a4 0x05 // P9_27 pr1_pru0_pru_r30_5, MODE5 | OUTPUT | PRU
0x19c 0x26 // P9_28 pr1_pru0_pru_r31_3, MODE6 | INPUT | PRU

;
};
};
};

fragment@1 { // Enable the PRUSS
target = <&pruss>;
overlay {
status = “okay”;
pinctrl-names = “default”;
pinctrl-0 = <&pru_pru_pins>;
};
};

fragment@2 { // Enable the GPIOs
target = <&ocp>;
overlay {
gpio_helper {
compatible = “gpio-of-helper”;
status = “okay”;
pinctrl-names = “default”;
pinctrl-0 = <&gpio_pins>;
};
};
};
};

`

I compile with:

`
dtc -O dtb -o EBB-PRU-Example-00A0.dtbo -b 0 -@ EBB-PRU-Example.dts

`

then copy it under /lib/firmware and do:

sudo sh ‐c "echo EBB‐PRU‐Example > $SLOTS"

Then I check:

$SLOTS output:

xsentius@beaglebone:~/chp13/overlay$ cat $SLOTS 0: PF---- -1 1: PF---- -1 2: PF---- -1 3: PF---- -1 6: P-O-L- 0 Override Board Name,00A0,Override Manuf,EBB-PRU-Example

dmesg output:

[ 701.582790] bone_capemgr bone_capemgr: slot #6: override [ 701.582839] bone_capemgr bone_capemgr: Using override eeprom data at slot 6 [ 701.582892] bone_capemgr bone_capemgr: slot #6: 'Override Board Name,00A0,Override Manuf,EBB-PRU-Example' [ 701.584950] bone_capemgr bone_capemgr: slot #6: dtbo 'EBB-PRU-Example-00A0.dtbo' loaded; overlay id #0

Everything seems normal up to here, but when I check pin values:
`

xsentius@beaglebone:~/chp13/overlay$ sudo cat $PINS|grep ‘103|105’
pin 103 (44e1099c.0) 00000027 pinctrl-single
pin 105 (44e109a4.0) 00000027 pinctrl-single
`

Those pins values seem not changed. They should be equal to 26 and 5.
Do you have an idea?

Here are my system properties:

xsentius@beaglebone:~/chp13/overlay$ uname -a Linux beaglebone 4.1.18-ti-rt-r56 #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Thu Mar 31 00:22:06 UTC 2016 armv7l GNU/Linux xsentius@beaglebone:~/chp13/overlay$ dtc --version Version: DTC 1.4.1-g1e75ebc9

Thanks

2

This is documented through out this forum..

In another thread you mentioned you were running:

4.1.18-ti-rt-r56

This "v4.1.x-ti" which uses remoteproc_pruss..

If you want uio_pruss, you need to use "4.1.x-bone" or "4.4.x-bone"..

cd /opt/scripts/tools/
git pull
sudo ./update_kernel.sh --bone-rt-kernel --lts-4_1

Regards,

3

So do you think that’s why I cannot change pin mode settings?

Kind Regards

4

You are also assuming "sudo cat $PINS" works on 4.1.x... it doesn't
currently show updates from loading overlays..

Regards,

5

Oh, that is a very precious information, I really appreciate it.

So is there a way to see updates? Do you recommend me to go back to 3.8, if it is stable?

6

Correctly set them in the overlay and don't worry about it..

Regards,

7

I am very grateful Robert, it worked. I can change pin modes easily, time to test some PRU codes. Thank you so much!

8

Hi, I have the same problem with the same device tree overlay.
The setting of the PRU works when I put added the PRU pin mux in the am335x-boneblack-emmc-overlay.dts but not when I insert it to slots.

Here is my device tree that I add to the am335x-boneblack-emmc-overlay.dts.

`
/*