From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Peter_K=FCmmel?= Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2014 10:39:19 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] new TI kernel version for beaglebone black In-Reply-To: <5388F5A2.1080008@ethertek.ca> References: <5388F5A2.1080008@ethertek.ca> Message-ID: <538AE6B7.8030202@gmx.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.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, >