Re: BBB doesn't boot

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

On 2014-04-14 10:00, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 09:51:49AM -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> On 2014-04-14 09:46, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
>>> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 04:25:55AM -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>> On 2014-04-13 20:33, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 03:12:16AM -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>>>> I just tried building (core-image-sato) for my BeagleBoneBlack
>>>>>> using the latest Poky/Yocto master:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Build Configuration:
>>>>>> BB_VERSION        = "1.23.0"
>>>>>> BUILD_SYS         = "i686-linux"
>>>>>> NATIVELSBSTRING   = "Fedora-13"
>>>>>> TARGET_SYS        = "arm-poky-linux-gnueabi"
>>>>>> MACHINE           = "beaglebone"
>>>>>> DISTRO            = "poky"
>>>>>> DISTRO_VERSION    = "1.6+snapshot-20140411"
>>>>>> TUNE_FEATURES     = "armv7a vfp neon callconvention-hard cortexa8"
>>>>>> TARGET_FPU        = "vfp-neon"
>>>>>> meta
>>>>>> meta-yocto
>>>>>> meta-yocto-bsp    = "master:863cc7483f5ee43189537940de8ee5c0964d24cc"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This built the kernel using SRCREV 928d7b2dda
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I followed the bring-up instructions from README.hadware and the
>>>>>> boot failed to even start the kernel.  Here's what I see:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> =============================== boot log =========================================
>>>>>> U-Boot 2013.07 (Apr 11 2014 - 15:03:04)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I2C:   ready
>>>>>> DRAM:  512 MiB
>>>>>> WARNING: Caches not enabled
>>>>>> NAND:  0 MiB
>>>>>> MMC:   OMAP SD/MMC: 0, OMAP SD/MMC: 1
>>>>>> *** Warning - readenv() failed, using default environment
>>>>>>
>>>>>> musb-hdrc: ConfigData=0xde (UTMI-8, dyn FIFOs, HB-ISO Rx, HB-ISO Tx, SoftConn)
>>>>>> musb-hdrc: MHDRC RTL version 2.0
>>>>>> musb-hdrc: setup fifo_mode 4
>>>>>> musb-hdrc: 28/31 max ep, 16384/16384 memory
>>>>>> USB Peripheral mode controller at 47401000 using PIO, IRQ 0
>>>>>> musb-hdrc: ConfigData=0xde (UTMI-8, dyn FIFOs, HB-ISO Rx, HB-ISO Tx, SoftConn)
>>>>>> musb-hdrc: MHDRC RTL version 2.0
>>>>>> musb-hdrc: setup fifo_mode 4
>>>>>> musb-hdrc: 28/31 max ep, 16384/16384 memory
>>>>>> USB Host mode controller at 47401800 using PIO, IRQ 0
>>>>>> Net:   <ethaddr> not set. Validating first E-fuse MAC
>>>>>> Phy not found
>>>>>> PHY reset timed out
>>>>>> cpsw, usb_ether
>>>>>> Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
>>>>>> mmc0 is current device
>>>>>> SD/MMC found on device 0
>>>>>> reading uEnv.txt
>>>>>> ** Unable to read file uEnv.txt **
>>>>>> 4981688 bytes read in 613 ms (7.7 MiB/s)
>>>>>> 29192 bytes read in 46 ms (619.1 KiB/s)
>>>>>> Booting from mmc ...
>>>>>> ## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 80200000 ...
>>>>>>    Image Name:   Linux-3.14.0-yocto-standard
>>>>>>    Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
>>>>>>    Data Size:    4981624 Bytes = 4.8 MiB
>>>>>>    Load Address: 80008000
>>>>>>    Entry Point:  80008000
>>>>>>    Verifying Checksum ... OK
>>>>>> ## Flattened Device Tree blob at 80f80000
>>>>>>    Booting using the fdt blob at 0x80f80000
>>>>>>    Loading Kernel Image ... OK
>>>>>>    Using Device Tree in place at 80f80000, end 80f8a207
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Starting kernel ...
>>>>>> ==================================================================================
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any ideas what I've done wrong?
>>>>>
>>>>> Hmm, everything looks sane. What revision is your BBB? And did you press 
>>>>> USER/BOOT button or erased eMMC partition per instructions?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Revision A5A, with an LCD cape
>>>
>>> Hmm, I'm wondering if LCD cape conflicts here - there's no cape support in 
>>> this BSP. Can you try w/o it?
>>
>> Sure I can try it but I don't think that's it.  I got the kernel that StefanX
>> built and booted and tried it on my board and it came up.  No clue why the
>> kernels are different - ostensibly we both built the same image from the same
>> meta data, but they are slightly different (only in size - I compared the
>> System.map files from both builds and they contain exactly the same bits,
>> just a few changes in memory layout which I can't explain).
> 
> Yeah, good point. Doesn't look like your cape causes the issue...
> The only other difference is in the host. Do you have access to another Linux 
> box you can try? FWIW, I'm using 64-bit Gentoo with gcc-4.7.3. Yours is 32-bit 
> Fedora 13, right?

I'll try Fedora 17 and Ubuntu 12.04 (x86_64) and see what happens.

Note: I use the Fedora 13 system *all* the time for my other Poky/Yocto builds.

> 
>> I'm trying another build from scratch using a different build host to see
>> if that makes a difference.
> 
> Do you have any other layers or customizations on top? (the metadata above 
> suggests you build just pure Poky though)

I was trying this on a pure Poky/Yocto build.

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