[meta-fsl-arm-extra] Booting RIoTboard

[meta-fsl-arm-extra] Booting RIoTboard

[Gary Thomas]

I've just built an image for the i.MX6DL/RIoTboard using the
latest master (fido).  I had to add this line to local.conf:
   MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS_remove_imx6dl-riotboard = "fsl-alsa-plugins"
as the fsl-alsa-plugins won't currently build with Linux-4.0

Now I'm trying to boot the image.  I've copied it to my SD card
and set the switches appropriately (I found two web pages about
this and they have conflicting information!  The answer seems
to be SW1-SW8=On/Off/On/Off/Off/On/Off/On)

I get the U-Boot prompt from the image I built (it has today's
date), but the SD card doesn't boot from there.  The default
boot commands seem to be looking for boot scripts, etc, but
there are none on the SD card, only a zImage and DTB file.

Is there some documentation, perhaps in meta-fsl-arm-extra,
that helps (and I've missed)??

Any help on how to boot this board would be appreciated.

-- 
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Gary Thomas                 |  Consulting for the
MLB Associates              |    Embedded world
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Re: [meta-fsl-arm-extra] Booting RIoTboard

[Nikolay Dimitrov]

Hi Gary,

On 04/23/2015 12:37 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> I've just built an image for the i.MX6DL/RIoTboard using the latest
> master (fido).  I had to add this line to local.conf:
> MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS_remove_imx6dl-riotboard =
> "fsl-alsa-plugins" as the fsl-alsa-plugins won't currently build with
> Linux-4.0
>
> Now I'm trying to boot the image.  I've copied it to my SD card and
> set the switches appropriately (I found two web pages about this and
> they have conflicting information!  The answer seems to be
> SW1-SW8=On/Off/On/Off/Off/On/Off/On)

I have 2 riotboards both booting from sdcards, here are their
configurations:
- slot J6 (USDHC2), SW1-8 = On/Off/On/Off/Off/On/On/Off
- slot J7 (USDHC3), SW1-8 = On/Off/On/Off/Off/On/Off/On

> I get the U-Boot prompt from the image I built (it has today's date),
> but the SD card doesn't boot from there.  The default boot commands
> seem to be looking for boot scripts, etc, but there are none on the
> SD card, only a zImage and DTB file.
>
> Is there some documentation, perhaps in meta-fsl-arm-extra, that
> helps (and I've missed)??
>
> Any help on how to boot this board would be appreciated.

Fido uses U-Boot v2015.04. Assuming that you haven't modifed the
upstream version, v2015.04 uses extlinux boot mechanism, which requires
the following files to be available on your boot partition:

/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf
/boot/imx6dl-riotboard.dtb
/boot/uImage

Extlinux.conf should have the following content:

default yocto
label yocto
kernel /boot/uImage
devicetree /boot/imx6dl-riotboard.dtb
append console=ttymxc1,115200 root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rw

Technically speaking, recent versions of U-Boot for riotboard are quite
plug-and-play - as long as you have properly placed your extlinux
files, the bootloader will automatically find them on any attached
storage and boot as piece of cake (works also with rootfs on usb-disk).

If you have partitioned the sdcard with a modern version of fdisk, the
1st partition will be properly located at 1MiB offset, thus leaving
more than enough space for U-Boot.

Hope this helps. Regards,
Nikolay

Re: [meta-fsl-arm-extra] Booting RIoTboard

[Nikolay Dimitrov]

Hi Gary,

On 04/23/2015 03:18 AM, Nikolay Dimitrov wrote:
> Hi Gary,
>
> On 04/23/2015 12:37 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> I've just built an image for the i.MX6DL/RIoTboard using the latest
>> master (fido).  I had to add this line to local.conf:
>> MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS_remove_imx6dl-riotboard =
>> "fsl-alsa-plugins" as the fsl-alsa-plugins won't currently build with
>> Linux-4.0
>>
>> Now I'm trying to boot the image.  I've copied it to my SD card and
>> set the switches appropriately (I found two web pages about this and
>> they have conflicting information!  The answer seems to be
>> SW1-SW8=On/Off/On/Off/Off/On/Off/On)
>
> I have 2 riotboards both booting from sdcards, here are their
> configurations:
> - slot J6 (USDHC2), SW1-8 = On/Off/On/Off/Off/On/On/Off
> - slot J7 (USDHC3), SW1-8 = On/Off/On/Off/Off/On/Off/On
>
>> I get the U-Boot prompt from the image I built (it has today's date),
>> but the SD card doesn't boot from there.  The default boot commands
>> seem to be looking for boot scripts, etc, but there are none on the
>> SD card, only a zImage and DTB file.
>>
>> Is there some documentation, perhaps in meta-fsl-arm-extra, that
>> helps (and I've missed)??
>>
>> Any help on how to boot this board would be appreciated.
>
> Fido uses U-Boot v2015.04. Assuming that you haven't modifed the
> upstream version, v2015.04 uses extlinux boot mechanism, which requires
> the following files to be available on your boot partition:
>
> /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf
> /boot/imx6dl-riotboard.dtb
> /boot/uImage
>
> Extlinux.conf should have the following content:
>
> default yocto
> label yocto
> kernel /boot/uImage
> devicetree /boot/imx6dl-riotboard.dtb
> append console=ttymxc1,115200 root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rw

Of course, change root= to suit your configuration.

> Technically speaking, recent versions of U-Boot for riotboard are quite
> plug-and-play - as long as you have properly placed your extlinux
> files, the bootloader will automatically find them on any attached
> storage and boot as piece of cake (works also with rootfs on usb-disk).
>
> If you have partitioned the sdcard with a modern version of fdisk, the
> 1st partition will be properly located at 1MiB offset, thus leaving
> more than enough space for U-Boot.
>
> Hope this helps. Regards,
> Nikolay

Regards,
Nikolay

Re: [meta-fsl-arm-extra] Booting RIoTboard

[Otavio Salvador]

Hello Nikolay and Gary,

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 9:22 PM, Nikolay Dimitrov <picmaster@mail.bg> wrote:
> On 04/23/2015 03:18 AM, Nikolay Dimitrov wrote:
>> On 04/23/2015 12:37 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>
>>> I've just built an image for the i.MX6DL/RIoTboard using the latest
>>> master (fido).  I had to add this line to local.conf:
>>> MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS_remove_imx6dl-riotboard =
>>> "fsl-alsa-plugins" as the fsl-alsa-plugins won't currently build with
>>> Linux-4.0
>>>
>>> Now I'm trying to boot the image.  I've copied it to my SD card and
>>> set the switches appropriately (I found two web pages about this and
>>> they have conflicting information!  The answer seems to be
>>> SW1-SW8=On/Off/On/Off/Off/On/Off/On)
>>
>>
>> I have 2 riotboards both booting from sdcards, here are their
>> configurations:
>> - slot J6 (USDHC2), SW1-8 = On/Off/On/Off/Off/On/On/Off
>> - slot J7 (USDHC3), SW1-8 = On/Off/On/Off/Off/On/Off/On
>>
>>> I get the U-Boot prompt from the image I built (it has today's date),
>>> but the SD card doesn't boot from there.  The default boot commands
>>> seem to be looking for boot scripts, etc, but there are none on the
>>> SD card, only a zImage and DTB file.
>>>
>>> Is there some documentation, perhaps in meta-fsl-arm-extra, that
>>> helps (and I've missed)??
>>>
>>> Any help on how to boot this board would be appreciated.
>>
>>
>> Fido uses U-Boot v2015.04. Assuming that you haven't modifed the
>> upstream version, v2015.04 uses extlinux boot mechanism, which requires
>> the following files to be available on your boot partition:
>>
>> /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf
>> /boot/imx6dl-riotboard.dtb
>> /boot/uImage
>>
>> Extlinux.conf should have the following content:
>>
>> default yocto
>> label yocto
>> kernel /boot/uImage
>> devicetree /boot/imx6dl-riotboard.dtb
>> append console=ttymxc1,115200 root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rw
>
>
> Of course, change root= to suit your configuration.

I have reverted the conversion of the board for now. This should make
it work out of box until we add support for the generic script.

I will be sending those patches in some minutes and include them in
master-next for testing.

-- 
Otavio Salvador                             O.S. Systems
http://www.ossystems.com.br        http://code.ossystems.com.br
Mobile: +55 (53) 9981-7854            Mobile: +1 (347) 903-9750

Re: [meta-fsl-arm-extra] Booting RIoTboard

[Daiane Angolini]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Otavio Salvador
<otavio@ossystems.com.br> wrote:
> Hello Nikolay and Gary,
>
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 9:22 PM, Nikolay Dimitrov <picmaster@mail.bg> wrote:
>> On 04/23/2015 03:18 AM, Nikolay Dimitrov wrote:
>>> On 04/23/2015 12:37 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I've just built an image for the i.MX6DL/RIoTboard using the latest
>>>> master (fido).  I had to add this line to local.conf:
>>>> MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS_remove_imx6dl-riotboard =
>>>> "fsl-alsa-plugins" as the fsl-alsa-plugins won't currently build with
>>>> Linux-4.0
>>>>
>>>> Now I'm trying to boot the image.  I've copied it to my SD card and
>>>> set the switches appropriately (I found two web pages about this and
>>>> they have conflicting information!  The answer seems to be
>>>> SW1-SW8=On/Off/On/Off/Off/On/Off/On)
>>>
>>>
>>> I have 2 riotboards both booting from sdcards, here are their
>>> configurations:
>>> - slot J6 (USDHC2), SW1-8 = On/Off/On/Off/Off/On/On/Off
>>> - slot J7 (USDHC3), SW1-8 = On/Off/On/Off/Off/On/Off/On
>>>
>>>> I get the U-Boot prompt from the image I built (it has today's date),
>>>> but the SD card doesn't boot from there.  The default boot commands
>>>> seem to be looking for boot scripts, etc, but there are none on the
>>>> SD card, only a zImage and DTB file.
>>>>
>>>> Is there some documentation, perhaps in meta-fsl-arm-extra, that
>>>> helps (and I've missed)??
>>>>
>>>> Any help on how to boot this board would be appreciated.
>>>
>>>
>>> Fido uses U-Boot v2015.04. Assuming that you haven't modifed the
>>> upstream version, v2015.04 uses extlinux boot mechanism, which requires
>>> the following files to be available on your boot partition:
>>>
>>> /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf
>>> /boot/imx6dl-riotboard.dtb
>>> /boot/uImage
>>>
>>> Extlinux.conf should have the following content:
>>>
>>> default yocto
>>> label yocto
>>> kernel /boot/uImage
>>> devicetree /boot/imx6dl-riotboard.dtb
>>> append console=ttymxc1,115200 root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rw
>>
>>
>> Of course, change root= to suit your configuration.
>
> I have reverted the conversion of the board for now. This should make
> it work out of box until we add support for the generic script.
>
> I will be sending those patches in some minutes and include them in
> master-next for testing.

Otavio, unfortunately I don't have access to this board anymore, so
I'm not going to be able to test it

I would appreciate if someone else could become the RioT board mantainer.


Daiane
>
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Re: [meta-fsl-arm-extra] Booting RIoTboard

[Otavio Salvador]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Daiane Angolini <daiane.list@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Otavio Salvador
> <otavio@ossystems.com.br> wrote:
>> Hello Nikolay and Gary,
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 9:22 PM, Nikolay Dimitrov <picmaster@mail.bg> wrote:
>>> On 04/23/2015 03:18 AM, Nikolay Dimitrov wrote:
>>>> On 04/23/2015 12:37 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I've just built an image for the i.MX6DL/RIoTboard using the latest
>>>>> master (fido).  I had to add this line to local.conf:
>>>>> MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS_remove_imx6dl-riotboard =
>>>>> "fsl-alsa-plugins" as the fsl-alsa-plugins won't currently build with
>>>>> Linux-4.0
>>>>>
>>>>> Now I'm trying to boot the image.  I've copied it to my SD card and
>>>>> set the switches appropriately (I found two web pages about this and
>>>>> they have conflicting information!  The answer seems to be
>>>>> SW1-SW8=On/Off/On/Off/Off/On/Off/On)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have 2 riotboards both booting from sdcards, here are their
>>>> configurations:
>>>> - slot J6 (USDHC2), SW1-8 = On/Off/On/Off/Off/On/On/Off
>>>> - slot J7 (USDHC3), SW1-8 = On/Off/On/Off/Off/On/Off/On
>>>>
>>>>> I get the U-Boot prompt from the image I built (it has today's date),
>>>>> but the SD card doesn't boot from there.  The default boot commands
>>>>> seem to be looking for boot scripts, etc, but there are none on the
>>>>> SD card, only a zImage and DTB file.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there some documentation, perhaps in meta-fsl-arm-extra, that
>>>>> helps (and I've missed)??
>>>>>
>>>>> Any help on how to boot this board would be appreciated.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Fido uses U-Boot v2015.04. Assuming that you haven't modifed the
>>>> upstream version, v2015.04 uses extlinux boot mechanism, which requires
>>>> the following files to be available on your boot partition:
>>>>
>>>> /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf
>>>> /boot/imx6dl-riotboard.dtb
>>>> /boot/uImage
>>>>
>>>> Extlinux.conf should have the following content:
>>>>
>>>> default yocto
>>>> label yocto
>>>> kernel /boot/uImage
>>>> devicetree /boot/imx6dl-riotboard.dtb
>>>> append console=ttymxc1,115200 root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rw
>>>
>>>
>>> Of course, change root= to suit your configuration.
>>
>> I have reverted the conversion of the board for now. This should make
>> it work out of box until we add support for the generic script.
>>
>> I will be sending those patches in some minutes and include them in
>> master-next for testing.
>
> Otavio, unfortunately I don't have access to this board anymore, so
> I'm not going to be able to test it
>
> I would appreciate if someone else could become the RioT board mantainer.

Thanks for letting us know. Gary, Nikolay? Anyone?

-- 
Otavio Salvador                             O.S. Systems
http://www.ossystems.com.br        http://code.ossystems.com.br
Mobile: +55 (53) 9981-7854            Mobile: +1 (347) 903-9750

Re: [meta-fsl-arm-extra] Booting RIoTboard

[Nikolay Dimitrov]

Hi Otavio,

On 04/23/2015 03:21 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Daiane Angolini <daiane.list@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Otavio Salvador
>> <otavio@ossystems.com.br> wrote:
>>> Hello Nikolay and Gary,
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 9:22 PM, Nikolay Dimitrov <picmaster@mail.bg> wrote:
>>>> On 04/23/2015 03:18 AM, Nikolay Dimitrov wrote:
>>>>> On 04/23/2015 12:37 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've just built an image for the i.MX6DL/RIoTboard using the latest
>>>>>> master (fido).  I had to add this line to local.conf:
>>>>>> MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS_remove_imx6dl-riotboard =
>>>>>> "fsl-alsa-plugins" as the fsl-alsa-plugins won't currently build with
>>>>>> Linux-4.0
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Now I'm trying to boot the image.  I've copied it to my SD card and
>>>>>> set the switches appropriately (I found two web pages about this and
>>>>>> they have conflicting information!  The answer seems to be
>>>>>> SW1-SW8=On/Off/On/Off/Off/On/Off/On)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I have 2 riotboards both booting from sdcards, here are their
>>>>> configurations:
>>>>> - slot J6 (USDHC2), SW1-8 = On/Off/On/Off/Off/On/On/Off
>>>>> - slot J7 (USDHC3), SW1-8 = On/Off/On/Off/Off/On/Off/On
>>>>>
>>>>>> I get the U-Boot prompt from the image I built (it has today's date),
>>>>>> but the SD card doesn't boot from there.  The default boot commands
>>>>>> seem to be looking for boot scripts, etc, but there are none on the
>>>>>> SD card, only a zImage and DTB file.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there some documentation, perhaps in meta-fsl-arm-extra, that
>>>>>> helps (and I've missed)??
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any help on how to boot this board would be appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Fido uses U-Boot v2015.04. Assuming that you haven't modifed the
>>>>> upstream version, v2015.04 uses extlinux boot mechanism, which requires
>>>>> the following files to be available on your boot partition:
>>>>>
>>>>> /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf
>>>>> /boot/imx6dl-riotboard.dtb
>>>>> /boot/uImage
>>>>>
>>>>> Extlinux.conf should have the following content:
>>>>>
>>>>> default yocto
>>>>> label yocto
>>>>> kernel /boot/uImage
>>>>> devicetree /boot/imx6dl-riotboard.dtb
>>>>> append console=ttymxc1,115200 root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rw
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Of course, change root= to suit your configuration.
>>>
>>> I have reverted the conversion of the board for now. This should make
>>> it work out of box until we add support for the generic script.
>>>
>>> I will be sending those patches in some minutes and include them in
>>> master-next for testing.
>>
>> Otavio, unfortunately I don't have access to this board anymore, so
>> I'm not going to be able to test it
>>
>> I would appreciate if someone else could become the RioT board mantainer.
>
> Thanks for letting us know. Gary, Nikolay? Anyone?

I can volunteer.

Regards,
Nikolay

Re: [meta-fsl-arm-extra] Booting RIoTboard

[Daiane Angolini]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Nikolay Dimitrov <picmaster@mail.bg> wrote:
> Hi Otavio,
>
>
> On 04/23/2015 03:21 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Daiane Angolini <daiane.list@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Otavio Salvador
>>> <otavio@ossystems.com.br> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello Nikolay and Gary,
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 9:22 PM, Nikolay Dimitrov <picmaster@mail.bg>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 04/23/2015 03:18 AM, Nikolay Dimitrov wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 04/23/2015 12:37 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I've just built an image for the i.MX6DL/RIoTboard using the latest
>>>>>>> master (fido).  I had to add this line to local.conf:
>>>>>>> MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS_remove_imx6dl-riotboard =
>>>>>>> "fsl-alsa-plugins" as the fsl-alsa-plugins won't currently build with
>>>>>>> Linux-4.0
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Now I'm trying to boot the image.  I've copied it to my SD card and
>>>>>>> set the switches appropriately (I found two web pages about this and
>>>>>>> they have conflicting information!  The answer seems to be
>>>>>>> SW1-SW8=On/Off/On/Off/Off/On/Off/On)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have 2 riotboards both booting from sdcards, here are their
>>>>>> configurations:
>>>>>> - slot J6 (USDHC2), SW1-8 = On/Off/On/Off/Off/On/On/Off
>>>>>> - slot J7 (USDHC3), SW1-8 = On/Off/On/Off/Off/On/Off/On
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I get the U-Boot prompt from the image I built (it has today's date),
>>>>>>> but the SD card doesn't boot from there.  The default boot commands
>>>>>>> seem to be looking for boot scripts, etc, but there are none on the
>>>>>>> SD card, only a zImage and DTB file.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is there some documentation, perhaps in meta-fsl-arm-extra, that
>>>>>>> helps (and I've missed)??
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Any help on how to boot this board would be appreciated.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Fido uses U-Boot v2015.04. Assuming that you haven't modifed the
>>>>>> upstream version, v2015.04 uses extlinux boot mechanism, which
>>>>>> requires
>>>>>> the following files to be available on your boot partition:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf
>>>>>> /boot/imx6dl-riotboard.dtb
>>>>>> /boot/uImage
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Extlinux.conf should have the following content:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> default yocto
>>>>>> label yocto
>>>>>> kernel /boot/uImage
>>>>>> devicetree /boot/imx6dl-riotboard.dtb
>>>>>> append console=ttymxc1,115200 root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rw
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Of course, change root= to suit your configuration.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have reverted the conversion of the board for now. This should make
>>>> it work out of box until we add support for the generic script.
>>>>
>>>> I will be sending those patches in some minutes and include them in
>>>> master-next for testing.
>>>
>>>
>>> Otavio, unfortunately I don't have access to this board anymore, so
>>> I'm not going to be able to test it
>>>
>>> I would appreciate if someone else could become the RioT board mantainer.
>>
>>
>> Thanks for letting us know. Gary, Nikolay? Anyone?
>
>
> I can volunteer.

Thanks a lot.

Please, send a patch replacing my name by yours ;)

Otavio, can this change be included in fido as well?

Daiane
>
> Regards,
> Nikolay

Re: [meta-fsl-arm-extra] Booting RIoTboard

[Otavio Salvador]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Daiane Angolini <daiane.list@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Nikolay Dimitrov <picmaster@mail.bg> wrote:
>> Hi Otavio,
>>
>>
>> On 04/23/2015 03:21 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Daiane Angolini <daiane.list@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Otavio Salvador
>>>> <otavio@ossystems.com.br> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello Nikolay and Gary,
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 9:22 PM, Nikolay Dimitrov <picmaster@mail.bg>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 04/23/2015 03:18 AM, Nikolay Dimitrov wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 04/23/2015 12:37 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I've just built an image for the i.MX6DL/RIoTboard using the latest
>>>>>>>> master (fido).  I had to add this line to local.conf:
>>>>>>>> MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS_remove_imx6dl-riotboard =
>>>>>>>> "fsl-alsa-plugins" as the fsl-alsa-plugins won't currently build with
>>>>>>>> Linux-4.0
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Now I'm trying to boot the image.  I've copied it to my SD card and
>>>>>>>> set the switches appropriately (I found two web pages about this and
>>>>>>>> they have conflicting information!  The answer seems to be
>>>>>>>> SW1-SW8=On/Off/On/Off/Off/On/Off/On)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have 2 riotboards both booting from sdcards, here are their
>>>>>>> configurations:
>>>>>>> - slot J6 (USDHC2), SW1-8 = On/Off/On/Off/Off/On/On/Off
>>>>>>> - slot J7 (USDHC3), SW1-8 = On/Off/On/Off/Off/On/Off/On
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I get the U-Boot prompt from the image I built (it has today's date),
>>>>>>>> but the SD card doesn't boot from there.  The default boot commands
>>>>>>>> seem to be looking for boot scripts, etc, but there are none on the
>>>>>>>> SD card, only a zImage and DTB file.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Is there some documentation, perhaps in meta-fsl-arm-extra, that
>>>>>>>> helps (and I've missed)??
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Any help on how to boot this board would be appreciated.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Fido uses U-Boot v2015.04. Assuming that you haven't modifed the
>>>>>>> upstream version, v2015.04 uses extlinux boot mechanism, which
>>>>>>> requires
>>>>>>> the following files to be available on your boot partition:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf
>>>>>>> /boot/imx6dl-riotboard.dtb
>>>>>>> /boot/uImage
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Extlinux.conf should have the following content:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> default yocto
>>>>>>> label yocto
>>>>>>> kernel /boot/uImage
>>>>>>> devicetree /boot/imx6dl-riotboard.dtb
>>>>>>> append console=ttymxc1,115200 root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rw
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Of course, change root= to suit your configuration.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I have reverted the conversion of the board for now. This should make
>>>>> it work out of box until we add support for the generic script.
>>>>>
>>>>> I will be sending those patches in some minutes and include them in
>>>>> master-next for testing.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Otavio, unfortunately I don't have access to this board anymore, so
>>>> I'm not going to be able to test it
>>>>
>>>> I would appreciate if someone else could become the RioT board mantainer.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for letting us know. Gary, Nikolay? Anyone?
>>
>>
>> I can volunteer.
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Please, send a patch replacing my name by yours ;)
>
> Otavio, can this change be included in fido as well?

Sure.

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Re: [meta-fsl-arm-extra] Booting RIoTboard

[Nikolay Dimitrov]

Hi Daiane, Otavio,

On 04/23/2015 03:50 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Daiane Angolini <daiane.list@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Nikolay Dimitrov <picmaster@mail.bg> wrote:
>>> Hi Otavio,
>>>
>>>
>>> On 04/23/2015 03:21 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Daiane Angolini <daiane.list@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Otavio Salvador
>>>>> <otavio@ossystems.com.br> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello Nikolay and Gary,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 9:22 PM, Nikolay Dimitrov <picmaster@mail.bg>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 04/23/2015 03:18 AM, Nikolay Dimitrov wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 04/23/2015 12:37 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I've just built an image for the i.MX6DL/RIoTboard using the latest
>>>>>>>>> master (fido).  I had to add this line to local.conf:
>>>>>>>>> MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS_remove_imx6dl-riotboard =
>>>>>>>>> "fsl-alsa-plugins" as the fsl-alsa-plugins won't currently build with
>>>>>>>>> Linux-4.0
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Now I'm trying to boot the image.  I've copied it to my SD card and
>>>>>>>>> set the switches appropriately (I found two web pages about this and
>>>>>>>>> they have conflicting information!  The answer seems to be
>>>>>>>>> SW1-SW8=On/Off/On/Off/Off/On/Off/On)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I have 2 riotboards both booting from sdcards, here are their
>>>>>>>> configurations:
>>>>>>>> - slot J6 (USDHC2), SW1-8 = On/Off/On/Off/Off/On/On/Off
>>>>>>>> - slot J7 (USDHC3), SW1-8 = On/Off/On/Off/Off/On/Off/On
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I get the U-Boot prompt from the image I built (it has today's date),
>>>>>>>>> but the SD card doesn't boot from there.  The default boot commands
>>>>>>>>> seem to be looking for boot scripts, etc, but there are none on the
>>>>>>>>> SD card, only a zImage and DTB file.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Is there some documentation, perhaps in meta-fsl-arm-extra, that
>>>>>>>>> helps (and I've missed)??
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Any help on how to boot this board would be appreciated.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Fido uses U-Boot v2015.04. Assuming that you haven't modifed the
>>>>>>>> upstream version, v2015.04 uses extlinux boot mechanism, which
>>>>>>>> requires
>>>>>>>> the following files to be available on your boot partition:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf
>>>>>>>> /boot/imx6dl-riotboard.dtb
>>>>>>>> /boot/uImage
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Extlinux.conf should have the following content:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> default yocto
>>>>>>>> label yocto
>>>>>>>> kernel /boot/uImage
>>>>>>>> devicetree /boot/imx6dl-riotboard.dtb
>>>>>>>> append console=ttymxc1,115200 root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rw
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Of course, change root= to suit your configuration.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have reverted the conversion of the board for now. This should make
>>>>>> it work out of box until we add support for the generic script.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I will be sending those patches in some minutes and include them in
>>>>>> master-next for testing.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Otavio, unfortunately I don't have access to this board anymore, so
>>>>> I'm not going to be able to test it
>>>>>
>>>>> I would appreciate if someone else could become the RioT board mantainer.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for letting us know. Gary, Nikolay? Anyone?
>>>
>>>
>>> I can volunteer.
>>
>> Thanks a lot.
>>
>> Please, send a patch replacing my name by yours ;)
>>
>> Otavio, can this change be included in fido as well?
>
> Sure.

Btw, what about dizzy? Riotboard is also supported there.

Regards,
Nikolay

Re: [meta-fsl-arm-extra] Booting RIoTboard

[Otavio Salvador]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Nikolay Dimitrov <picmaster@mail.bg> wrote:
> Btw, what about dizzy? Riotboard is also supported there.

It should be backported as well. Good point.

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Re: [meta-fsl-arm-extra] Booting RIoTboard

[Nikolay Dimitrov]

Hi Gary,

On 04/23/2015 03:18 AM, Nikolay Dimitrov wrote:
> Hi Gary,
>
> On 04/23/2015 12:37 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> I've just built an image for the i.MX6DL/RIoTboard using the latest
>> master (fido).  I had to add this line to local.conf:
>> MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS_remove_imx6dl-riotboard =
>> "fsl-alsa-plugins" as the fsl-alsa-plugins won't currently build with
>> Linux-4.0
>>
>> Now I'm trying to boot the image.  I've copied it to my SD card and
>> set the switches appropriately (I found two web pages about this and
>> they have conflicting information!  The answer seems to be
>> SW1-SW8=On/Off/On/Off/Off/On/Off/On)
>
> I have 2 riotboards both booting from sdcards, here are their
> configurations:
> - slot J6 (USDHC2), SW1-8 = On/Off/On/Off/Off/On/On/Off
> - slot J7 (USDHC3), SW1-8 = On/Off/On/Off/Off/On/Off/On

Just wanted to follow-up on this topic, probably due to curiosity. I
did some experiments and I can agree with you that the switch positions
definitely don't follow the docs (1 = On, 0 = Off, X = don't care):

J6 boot ok: 10100 XXX

J7 boot ok: 10100 010
             10100 110

So I guess this somewhat explains the confusion.

I've looked at the schematic some months ago to map which boot signals
goes to which switch, so the only way to explain this unexpected (to
me) behavior is either a mistake on my side when tracing the signals or
something different about the imx6s bootrom. Or me reading the wrong RM
:).

Regards,
Nikolay

Re: [meta-fsl-arm-extra] Booting RIoTboard

[Gary Thomas]

On 2015-05-01 06:06, Nikolay Dimitrov wrote:
> Hi Gary,
>
> On 04/23/2015 03:18 AM, Nikolay Dimitrov wrote:
>> Hi Gary,
>>
>> On 04/23/2015 12:37 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>> I've just built an image for the i.MX6DL/RIoTboard using the latest
>>> master (fido).  I had to add this line to local.conf:
>>> MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS_remove_imx6dl-riotboard =
>>> "fsl-alsa-plugins" as the fsl-alsa-plugins won't currently build with
>>> Linux-4.0
>>>
>>> Now I'm trying to boot the image.  I've copied it to my SD card and
>>> set the switches appropriately (I found two web pages about this and
>>> they have conflicting information!  The answer seems to be
>>> SW1-SW8=On/Off/On/Off/Off/On/Off/On)
>>
>> I have 2 riotboards both booting from sdcards, here are their
>> configurations:
>> - slot J6 (USDHC2), SW1-8 = On/Off/On/Off/Off/On/On/Off
>> - slot J7 (USDHC3), SW1-8 = On/Off/On/Off/Off/On/Off/On
>
> Just wanted to follow-up on this topic, probably due to curiosity. I
> did some experiments and I can agree with you that the switch positions
> definitely don't follow the docs (1 = On, 0 = Off, X = don't care):
>
> J6 boot ok: 10100 XXX
>
> J7 boot ok: 10100 010
>              10100 110

I think more correctly this would be:
   J6 boot: 10100 X0X
   J7 boot: 10100 X1X

>
> So I guess this somewhat explains the confusion.
>
> I've looked at the schematic some months ago to map which boot signals
> goes to which switch, so the only way to explain this unexpected (to
> me) behavior is either a mistake on my side when tracing the signals or
> something different about the imx6s bootrom. Or me reading the wrong RM
> :).

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Re: [meta-fsl-arm-extra] Booting RIoTboard

[Nikolay Dimitrov]

Hi Gary,

On 05/01/2015 03:31 PM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 2015-05-01 06:06, Nikolay Dimitrov wrote:
>> Hi Gary,
>>
>> On 04/23/2015 03:18 AM, Nikolay Dimitrov wrote:
>>> Hi Gary,
>>>
>>> On 04/23/2015 12:37 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>> I've just built an image for the i.MX6DL/RIoTboard using the latest
>>>> master (fido).  I had to add this line to local.conf:
>>>> MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS_remove_imx6dl-riotboard =
>>>> "fsl-alsa-plugins" as the fsl-alsa-plugins won't currently build with
>>>> Linux-4.0
>>>>
>>>> Now I'm trying to boot the image.  I've copied it to my SD card and
>>>> set the switches appropriately (I found two web pages about this and
>>>> they have conflicting information!  The answer seems to be
>>>> SW1-SW8=On/Off/On/Off/Off/On/Off/On)
>>>
>>> I have 2 riotboards both booting from sdcards, here are their
>>> configurations:
>>> - slot J6 (USDHC2), SW1-8 = On/Off/On/Off/Off/On/On/Off
>>> - slot J7 (USDHC3), SW1-8 = On/Off/On/Off/Off/On/Off/On
>>
>> Just wanted to follow-up on this topic, probably due to curiosity. I
>> did some experiments and I can agree with you that the switch positions
>> definitely don't follow the docs (1 = On, 0 = Off, X = don't care):
>>
>> J6 boot ok: 10100 XXX
>>
>> J7 boot ok: 10100 010
>>              10100 110
>
> I think more correctly this would be:
>    J6 boot: 10100 X0X
>    J7 boot: 10100 X1X

Well, it's not a matter of correctness, but facts. My riotboard can
boot from J6 regardless of the 3 rightmost switches. Also, SW8 needs to
be Off in order to boot from J7.

You can try it on your board.

>> So I guess this somewhat explains the confusion.
>>
>> I've looked at the schematic some months ago to map which boot signals
>> goes to which switch, so the only way to explain this unexpected (to
>> me) behavior is either a mistake on my side when tracing the signals or
>> something different about the imx6s bootrom. Or me reading the wrong RM
>> :).

Regards,
Nikolay

Re: [meta-fsl-arm-extra] Booting RIoTboard

[Nikolay Dimitrov]

On 05/01/2015 03:39 PM, Nikolay Dimitrov wrote:
>>> Just wanted to follow-up on this topic, probably due to curiosity. I
>>> did some experiments and I can agree with you that the switch positions
>>> definitely don't follow the docs (1 = On, 0 = Off, X = don't care):
>>>
>>> J6 boot ok: 10100 XXX
>>>
>>> J7 boot ok: 10100 010
>>>              10100 110

Found why the board behaves this way when booting from J6.

Boot switches 10100 XXX works only for POR resets. For WDOG reset the
working switch positions are 10100 X01, otherwise reboot command will
not reboot the board.

Regards,
Nikolay