BeagleBoard / Beagleboard-xM build

["Miroslav Keš" <miroslav.kes@gmail.com>]

Hi!

I tried to build the kernel plus core-image-minimal for BeagleBoard using just 

BBLAYERS ?= " \
  ${OEBASE}/meta-ti \
  ${OEBASE}/openembedded-core/meta \
  "
The build completed OK but the boot process hangs on both BeagleBoard and Beagleboard-xM after
the "booting the kernel" message (see the output bellow).

I have spent 3 days googling on potential reasons. I found some people having similar problems but it looks like the kernel debugging options are turned on in the kernel configuration and the ttyO2 should be OK for kernel 3.2.28

I would appreciate if someone could answer these questions:

1) Is it good idea trying to build the BeagleBoard distro using just meta-ti and openembedded-core (i.e. without Angstrom)?
2) Is there particular combination of meta-ti and openembedded-core versions that should be used?
3) What is the relationship between meta-ti and meta-beagleboard (it looks like meta-ti supports beagleboards while meta-beagleboard supports beaglebone)

Any hints would be really welcome

Mira

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U-Boot SPL 2011.09-01172-gfdbe8b9-dirty (Jul 02 2014 - 14:36:18)
Texas Instruments Revision detection unimplemented
OMAP SD/MMC: 0
reading u-boot.img
reading u-boot.img


U-Boot 2011.09-01172-gfdbe8b9-dirty (Jul 02 2014 - 14:36:18)

OMAP3530-GP ES3.0, CPU-OPP2, L3-165MHz, Max CPU Clock 600 mHz
OMAP3 Beagle board + LPDDR/NAND
I2C:   ready
DRAM:  256 MiB
WARNING: Caches not enabled
NAND:  256 MiB
MMC:   OMAP SD/MMC: 0
In:    serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
Beagle Rev C1/C2/C3
timed out in wait_for_pin: I2C_STAT=0
I2C read: I/O error
Unrecognized expansion board: 0
timed out in wait_for_pin: I2C_STAT=0
I2C read: I/O error
Unrecognized expansion board: 0
Die ID #5ac400030000000004013f8901001001
Net:   Net Initialization Skipped
No ethernet found.
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0 
OMAP3 beagleboard.org # mmc rescan
OMAP3 beagleboard.org # setenv bootargs console=ttyO2,115200n8 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rw rootdelay=1
OMAP3 beagleboard.org # fatload mmc 0:1 0x80000000  uImage
reading uImage

4337768 bytes read
OMAP3 beagleboard.org # bootm 0x80000000
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 80000000 ...
   Image Name:   Linux-3.2.28
   Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
   Data Size:    4337704 Bytes = 4.1 MiB
   Load Address: 80008000
   Entry Point:  80008000
   Verifying Checksum ... OK
   Loading Kernel Image ... OK
OK

Starting kernel ...

Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.