Thanks for the help!

Tim

On Sunday, June 15, 2014 10:34:05 PM UTC-5, crazybucket wrote:
>
> You can combine to contents of the overlays into one custom overlay and 
> load that (after you compile it with the device tree compiler). 
>
> On Thursday, June 12, 2014 3:31:40 PM UTC-5, tim.r...@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> I was having an issue loading multiple device tree overlays. I was hoping 
>> that someone could help me or maybe point me to a discussion thread I have 
>> overlooked.
>>
>> The issue is that I have three device tree overlays that I would like to 
>> manually upload on my beaglebone. However, only the first of the overlays 
>> that I echo to slots will show up on pingroups and be recognized by the 
>> machine.
>>
>>
>> My device info:
>>
>> root@arm:/boot/uboot# uname -a
>> Linux arm 3.8.13-bone40 #1 SMP Fri Jan 31 07:31:37 UTC 2014 armv7l 
>> GNU/Linux
>>
>> This is how my slot configuration appears upon starting. As can be seen 
>> there are 4 overlays that are automatically loaded:
>>
>> root@arm:/lib/firmware# cat /sys/devices/bone_capemgr.8/slots
>>  0: 54:PF---
>>  1: 55:PF---
>>  2: 56:PF---
>>  3: 57:PF---
>>  4: ff:P-O-L Override Board Name,00A0,Override Manuf,BB-UART2
>>  6: ff:P-O-L Override Board Name,00A0,Override Manuf,BB-UART4
>>  7: ff:P-O-L Override Board Name,00A0,Override Manuf,BB-UART5
>>  8: ff:P-O-L Override Board Name,00A0,Override Manuf,BB-SPIDEV1
>>
>> Using the command below I am able to manually add an overlay. This will 
>> be recognized in the pingroups without issue.
>>
>> root@arm:/lib/firmware# echo enable-uart3 > 
>> /sys/devices/bone_capemgr.8/slots
>>
>> How my slots appear after the addition.
>>
>>  0: 54:PF---
>>  1: 55:PF---
>>  2: 56:PF---
>>  3: 57:PF---
>>  4: ff:P-O-L Override Board Name,00A0,Override Manuf,BB-UART2
>>  6: ff:P-O-L Override Board Name,00A0,Override Manuf,BB-UART4
>>  7: ff:P-O-L Override Board Name,00A0,Override Manuf,BB-UART5
>>  8: ff:P-O-L Override Board Name,00A0,Override Manuf,BB-SPIDEV1
>> 11: ff:P-O-L Override Board Name,00A0,Override Manuf,enable-uart3
>>
>> However when I try to add another overlay, it appears in slots but does 
>> have any effect in pingroups. The commands I used are below.
>>
>> root@arm:/lib/firmware# echo enable-gpio32> 
>> /sys/devices/bone_capemgr.8/slots
>>
>> root@arm:/boot/uboot# cat /sys/devices/bone_capemgr.8/slots
>>  0: 54:PF---
>>  1: 55:PF---
>>  2: 56:PF---
>>  3: 57:PF---
>>  4: ff:P-O-L Override Board Name,00A0,Override Manuf,BB-UART2
>>  6: ff:P-O-L Override Board Name,00A0,Override Manuf,BB-UART4
>>  7: ff:P-O-L Override Board Name,00A0,Override Manuf,BB-UART5
>>  8: ff:P-O-L Override Board Name,00A0,Override Manuf,BB-SPIDEV1
>> 11: ff:P-O-L Override Board Name,00A0,Override Manuf,enable-uart3
>> 12: ff:P-O-L Override Board Name,00A0,Override Manuf,enable-gpio32
>>
>> My third overlay is called enable-dcan1 but it exhibits the same behavior 
>> as above so I will not show the process of adding it.
>>
>> Initially assumed that I had compiled an overlay incorrectly, but upon 
>> further experimentation I realized that the first overlay was always the 
>> one that got recognized by the machine and the other two were ignored.
>>
>> A few of my thoughts:
>>
>> Could the skipping of slots (4-6) and (8-11) be causing some sort of 
>> issue.
>>
>> Is there a maximum number of possible overlays that I have reached which 
>> prevents any more from being recognized.
>>
>>
>> I would appreciate any help that people can supply.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tim Rackers
>>
>

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