[Buildroot] new TI kernel version for beaglebone black

["Peter Kümmel" <syntheticpp@gmx.net>]

On 30.05.2014 23:18, Dan Pattison wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I have a question that is probably not 100% buildroot related, but was hoping to get some help. I am using buildroot to
> build a kernel and rootFS for a beaglebone black. Buildroot is awesome and builds everything fine. The board boots up
> and all packages work properly. Unfortunately, USB seems to be badly broken. In the kernel I have USB driver enabled and
> USB Announce New Devices turned on. Googling around I find several people with the same problem, hotplug does not work
> at all, and no device I have tried shows up in dmesg or lsusb on cold or warm boot. A band aid is to use a powered USB
> hub (have not tried that). Some guys on the beagleboard.org IRC say to try a newer kernel version (3.14 or >) because
> beaglebone USB is fixed in newer kernel versions. Current buildroot beaglebone black kernel version is 3.12.10
>
> In buildroot I used make beaglebone_defconfig.
> Under the Kernel menu, Custom Git repository is selected.
> The git URL is https://git.ti.com/ti-linux-kernel/ti-linux-kernel.git

BTW, does someone know how this repository relates to
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc.git?

Is the ti-linux-kernel repository _THE_ reference for TI kernels or
are there better starting points?

When looking for kernel sources also the Arago projects pops up and
for sure Linaro.

Does someone have a link or an explanation how all these repositories relate?
That would be great!

Many thanks,
Peter

> The custom repository version is 7f280334068b7c875ade51f8f3921ab311f0c824
> The def config is board/beaglebone/linux-3.12.config
>
> How was the custom repository number (7f280334068b7c875ade51f8f3921ab311f0c824) derived? Looking on the TI gitorious
> site, I see they are working on kernel 3.15. How can I make buildroot use the newer version? How do I find the newer
> custom repository version? I tried to find my answer with google, but I must not be using the correct search term.
> Please excuse the newbish questions.
>
> Thank you,
>