current support for zoom am1808 experimenter kit?

current support for zoom am1808 experimenter kit?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  i may shortly have my hands on one of these:

http://www.logicpd.com/products/system-on-modules/zoom-am1808/

so a couple quick questions.  first, has anyone built a standard image
using OE and meta-ti for precisely that board?  i can see meta-ti
contains the machine config file am180x-evm.conf, but there is a more
expensive board that is the EVM:

http://www.logicpd.com/products/system-on-modules/zoom-am1808-evm/

so is that machine conf file still relevant for the cheaper
experimenter kit?

  next, just for the purposes of bringing up the board, i see the
recipe for ti-hw-bringup-image.bb, but i notice that some of those
image recipe files refer to angstrom components.  however, the meta-ti
layer definition doesn't list meta-angstrom as a dependency.  what's
the procotol for specifying layer dependencies?

  finally, the bringup recipe includes:

# This doesn't work with the current genext2fs in oe-core
# inherit sdcard_image

is that still the case?

  sorry if these are simple questions, i don't have access to my dev
system right now or i'd just do a build and see what happened.

rday

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Re: current support for zoom am1808 experimenter kit?

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 03:49:21PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   i may shortly have my hands on one of these:
> 
> http://www.logicpd.com/products/system-on-modules/zoom-am1808/
> 
> so a couple quick questions.  first, has anyone built a standard image
> using OE and meta-ti for precisely that board?  i can see meta-ti
> contains the machine config file am180x-evm.conf, but there is a more
> expensive board that is the EVM:
> 
> http://www.logicpd.com/products/system-on-modules/zoom-am1808-evm/
> 
> so is that machine conf file still relevant for the cheaper
> experimenter kit?

The difference is the addition of a daughter (UI) card with character LCD, 
extra Flash storage and bunch of Video interfaces. The main board is the same 
and is supported by am180x-evm machine config in meta-ti BSP layer. The 
supported kernel for this platform is still 2.6.37 for now...


>   next, just for the purposes of bringing up the board, i see the
> recipe for ti-hw-bringup-image.bb, but i notice that some of those
> image recipe files refer to angstrom components.  however, the meta-ti
> layer definition doesn't list meta-angstrom as a dependency.  what's
> the procotol for specifying layer dependencies?

You need to either have meta-angstrom in the layer stack, or use another image 
recipe. There's been tons of heated discussions on this topic, so I won't go 
into further details...


>   finally, the bringup recipe includes:
> 
> # This doesn't work with the current genext2fs in oe-core
> # inherit sdcard_image
> 
> is that still the case?
> 
>   sorry if these are simple questions, i don't have access to my dev
> system right now or i'd just do a build and see what happened.

-- 
Denys

Re: current support for zoom am1808 experimenter kit?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 24 Jan 2013, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 03:49:21PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> >   next, just for the purposes of bringing up the board, i see the
> > recipe for ti-hw-bringup-image.bb, but i notice that some of those
> > image recipe files refer to angstrom components.  however, the meta-ti
> > layer definition doesn't list meta-angstrom as a dependency.  what's
> > the procotol for specifying layer dependencies?
>
> You need to either have meta-angstrom in the layer stack, or use
> another image recipe. There's been tons of heated discussions on
> this topic, so I won't go into further details...

  yup, i've run across most of that in the last couple hours of
snooping so i have a much better idea of how those recipes work,
thanks.

  and, predictably, i ran into the same issue jack mitchell reported a
few days ago:

https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/meta-ti/2013-January/002015.html

so i'll kick back and watch for a resolution.

rday

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                        http://crashcourse.ca

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