[beagleboard] Max current on header 5/3.3V supply

2014-05-26 Thread Robert P
Hi everyone, I'm trying to figure out if it's safe to power an xbee off the 3.3V header on the bbb ( P9_3 / P9_4 ) .. I need 250ma-300ma MAX is this safe and stable? It would seem like it, but I want to confirm.. thank you! -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- Yo

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Max current on header 5/3.3V supply

2014-05-28 Thread Robert P
ind that >> the >> > VDD_3V3B at P9 pins 3 and 4 can source 250 mA max. >> > >> > On Tuesday, May 27, 2014 12:38:13 AM UTC+2, Robert P wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi everyone, I'm trying to figure out if it's safe to power an xbee &g

Re: [beagleboard] Re: BeagleBone --- How do you build ONLY u-boot?

2013-09-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
t specifically for the BBB: http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/U-Boot_on_the_BBB#BBB-specific_U-Boot_from_current_Git_tree rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http:

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Welcome the Fall 2013 Beagle Call to the group

2013-09-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
started writing and loading their first kernel module. enjoy! rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter:

[beagleboard] is there a decent online tutorial on the basics of (ARM) toolchains?

2013-09-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
to know what a toolchain is, how it works, the differences between them and so on. anything like that out there? thanks. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

[beagleboard] anyone using barebox for their BBB?

2013-09-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/r

Re: [beagleboard] device tree support

2013-09-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
the uImage values in am335x_evm.h with references to zImage, thus making zImage the default image format. AFAIK, there is no downside to using zImage from now on. rday -- ==== Robert P. J. Day

Re: [beagleboard] device tree support

2013-09-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
.. Nothing > more, nothing less.. shouldn't that be just "64-byte wrapper"? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA htt

Re: [beagleboard] BBB flasher fails to update eMMC

2013-09-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i can test this -- i'll grab the file http://dominion.thruhere.net/koen/angstrom/beaglebone/BBB-eMMC-flasher-2013.09.04.img.xz and check it out, is that the file that is currently the subject of debate? rday -- ==

Re: [beagleboard] BBB flasher fails to update eMMC

2013-09-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
utes now and still going ... rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn:

Re: [beagleboard] BBB flasher fails to update eMMC

2013-09-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
arball. 10 minutes in, and still flashing ... rday -- ==== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter:

Re: [beagleboard] BBB flasher fails to update eMMC

2013-09-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ed in the flashing process or something. i've always downloaded my flasher images from koen's dominion site, never from amazon. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

Re: [beagleboard] BBB flasher fails to update eMMC

2013-09-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
didn't like that. but, as i said, i had no problem flashing here. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://c

Re: [beagleboard] BBB flasher fails to update eMMC

2013-09-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 27 Sep 2013, Gerald Coley wrote: > I use Win7 as well. May be an issue with the unzip program you are using. > Gerald > > > On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 1:34 PM, wrote: > > > On Friday, September 27, 2013 12:14:05 PM UTC-6, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >

[beagleboard] subtle screwup this week with formatting uSD card for 32-bit linux

2013-10-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ot;-F 32" option was the problem, so i simply removed it and all was well. just in case that helps anyone else avoid the grief. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

[beagleboard] availability of BB X-15 through canadian distributor?

2016-10-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
be available? rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.li

[beagleboard] is there an OE BSP layer for the BB X15 somewhere?

2016-10-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
perhaps i'm just being clueless, but i don't see a BSP layer that defines a machine for the BB X15. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

Re: [beagleboard] Build Mainline U-Boot and Kernel

2013-10-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
p/Minimal_scratch_build_for_BBB as of yesterday(?), mainline u-boot now totally supports BBB and by default boots from a zImage. no patching necessary. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa

Re: [beagleboard] BBB won't boot with custom Yocto (Poky) Build

2013-10-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ld be just ducky. anyone have something like that? rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter:

Re: [beagleboard] Re: eMMC boot partition enable

2013-10-11 Thread Robert P. J. Day
u-boot clearly *does* support the eMMC H/W boot partition. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter:

[beagleboard] a minimal, from scratch, build for the BBB, and further developments

2013-10-11 Thread Robert P. J. Day
y* things i can add as future labs for a beginner embedded linux class. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter:

Re: [beagleboard] 3.12-rc4: kernel testing time...

2013-10-11 Thread Robert P. J. Day
gt; image? > > > > Mine uses uImage > > ah... okay because uImage gets interesting in v3.12 > > make ARCH=arm LOADADDR=0x80008000 uImage is there any actual *technical* reason to continue using uImage now that u-boot for BBB has switched to using zImage by d

[beagleboard] who has a recipe for using OE/yocto to build for the BBB?

2013-10-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ences between them in terms of what is a better choice. can someone verify that they have a functional build for a BBB using either of the above? thanks. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, On

Re: [beagleboard] resource for true beginners?

2013-10-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
convenient platform. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http:/

Re: [beagleboard] Share the internet access from laptop to beaglebone black and then access it through VNC server.

2013-10-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
that page. http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/BBB_networking_in_tethered_mode rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashco

[beagleboard] DM3730 eval kits as alternatives to beagle xm?

2013-10-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
oses. thanks. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.li

Re: [beagleboard] Editing uEnv.txt

2013-11-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
terly meaningless since the one used by u-boot is in the FAT partition. rday -- ==== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter

Re: [beagleboard] Editing uEnv.txt

2013-11-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
t environment to verify which one u-boot is consulting. rday -- ==== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter:

Re: [beagleboard] laptop doesn't recognize bbb as a storage device

2013-11-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
n 8M file to a mailing list not once but three times? grow up and and learn some simple mailing list etiquette. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

[beagleboard] good, *current* online tutorial for capemgr for BBB?

2013-11-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i'm sure there are a number of these, but can someone recommend an online tutorial on slots and capemgr for the BBB that's up-to-date for the 3.12-whatever kernel? thanks. rday -- ======== Robert

Re: [beagleboard] good, *current* online tutorial for capemgr for BBB?

2013-11-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 7 Nov 2013, Robert Nelson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Robert P. J. Day > wrote: > > > > i'm sure there are a number of these, but can someone recommend > > an online tutorial on slots and capemgr for the BBB that's > > up-to-d

Re: [beagleboard] what is the 'd' variable in bitbake recipes?

2013-11-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ment. i'm pretty sure it's simply the global "data dictionary", which keeps track of all of the relevant variables and their values. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day

Re: [beagleboard] Will a BB Black case fit a BB White?

2013-11-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
http://www.logicsupply.com/bb100/ > > Is that to be expected? i believe it is. rday -- ==== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

Re: [beagleboard] beagle-xm rev C with 3.12 kernel + fdt

2013-12-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
to this, as i am teaching an embedded linux course at the end of january for a client that *specifically* wants it taught on the xM. so any information i can start collecting for the xM (rev C) would be terrific. rday -- Robert P

Re: [beagleboard] beagle-xm rev C with 3.12 kernel + fdt

2013-12-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 26 Dec 2013, robert.berger wrote: > Hi, > > On Thursday, December 26, 2013 1:29:26 PM UTC+2, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > >   i would be *very* interested in seeing the (eventual?) solution to > this, as i am teaching an embedded linux course at the end of

[beagleboard] current solution for JTAG debugging of beagleboard xm?

2014-01-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
hings inexpensive? other options? thanks. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter:

Re: [beagleboard] current solution for JTAG debugging of beagleboard xm?

2014-01-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 3 Jan 2014, Bill Traynor wrote: > On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Robert P. J. Day > wrote: > > > > a client is interested in JTAG debugging of a beagleboard xm and, if > > memory serves, one approach once upon a time was described here: > > > >

Re: [beagleboard] current solution for JTAG debugging of beagleboard xm?

2014-01-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
passing* acquaintance with Code Composer Studio running on windows so i hope this is still usable under linux, specifically fedora 20 for now. unless anyone has any specific objections to this item, i'll order it and start playing. rday -- ======

Re: [beagleboard] current solution for JTAG debugging of beagleboard xm?

2014-01-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
re still value in purchasing a TI XDS100v2? i have no problem investing in more toys as long as they provide additional value. i guess i really need to find a good JTAG tutorial somewhere and start reading ... rday -- ==== Ro

[beagleboard] grrrrrr ... fedora 20 has a broken "kpartx" command

2014-01-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
bug.cgi?id=1039136 rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjda

[beagleboard] the inconvenience of s in the uEnv.txt file

2014-01-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
le in a DOS editor. :-) rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/r

[beagleboard] couple questions about trying flyswatter 2 on beagle xm from fedora 20

2014-01-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
^ should that instead say "cortex_a8"? is this really a bug in openocd? has anyone else tried this? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA hhttp://crashcourse.c

Re: [beagleboard] couple questions about trying flyswatter 2 on beagle xm from fedora 20

2014-01-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
-- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday

Re: [beagleboard] couple questions about trying flyswatter 2 on beagle xm from fedora 20

2014-01-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 4 Jan 2014, Bill Traynor wrote: > On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Robert P. J. Day > wrote: > > > > following up on my earlier post on JTAG debugging, i dug into my > > supplies and found my flyswatter 2 and associated cables and started > > f

Re: [beagleboard] couple questions about trying flyswatter 2 on beagle xm from fedora 20

2014-01-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 4 Jan 2014, Bill Traynor wrote: > On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 10:11 PM, Robert P. J. Day > wrote: > > On Sat, 4 Jan 2014, Bill Traynor wrote: > > > >> On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Robert P. J. Day > >> wrote: > >> > > >> > f

Re: [beagleboard] couple questions about trying flyswatter 2 on beagle xm from fedora 20

2014-01-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 4 Jan 2014, Bill Traynor wrote: > On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Robert P. J. Day > wrote: > > > > following up on my earlier post on JTAG debugging, i dug into my > > supplies and found my flyswatter 2 and associated cables and started > > f

Re: [beagleboard] couple questions about trying flyswatter 2 on beagle xm from fedora 20

2014-01-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 4 Jan 2014, Bill Traynor wrote: > On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Robert P. J. Day > wrote: > > Runtime Error: embedded:startup.tcl:20: Unknown target type cortex_a, > > try one of arm7tdmi, arm9tdmi, arm920t, arm720t, arm966e, arm946e, > > arm926ejs, fa526, fer

Re: [beagleboard] couple questions about trying flyswatter 2 on beagle xm from fedora 20

2014-01-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ct? and openocd 0.7.0 already comes with a flyswatter2.cfg file. -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://

[beagleboard] viability of jtag debugging bb-xm with flyswatter2 and openocd?

2014-01-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
g the kernel on a bb-xm? thanks. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitte

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Availability - how come nobody has any BeagleBone Black to sell?

2014-01-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 8 Jan 2014, Gerald Coley wrote: > We have ship 4,400 boards since the first of the year. Anybody know > where they went? > Gerald i'm building a cluster ... rday -- ======== Ro

[beagleboard] why does RCN's wiki page use am335x_evm_defconfig for BBB u-boot?

2015-12-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
B, even though u-boot has an apparently more specific "am335x_boneblack_defconfig" file. anyone know why the evm-flavoured file is used as opposed to the "boneblack" one? i know it works, i'm just curious as to the choice. rday -- ==========

[beagleboard] trying to list all u-boot files related to building for BBB

2015-12-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
#x27;t see one but i'm willing to believe i just missed it. thanks muchly. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter:

Re: [beagleboard] looks like the BeagleBone Black and this community is dead. Cannot even flash 8.3.

2016-03-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Quoting Robert Nelson : On Mar 20, 2016 2:28 PM, "Karl Easterly" wrote: It's clear that the BBB is a dead product. There is no meaningful resources for issues, and when the system simply won't 'reset from a new image from their site'... that's the last straw. Mine are going in the trash a

Re: [beagleboard] purchasing beagleboard-xM

2014-09-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
rge order to make it worth doing. i'm curious ... given the regularity with which people ask for a BB xM, what exactly is the appeal of that board? are there not newer boards that bring the same features to the table? rday -- ==========

Re: [beagleboard] purchasing beagleboard-xM

2014-09-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 8 Sep 2014, Robert Nelson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Robert P. J. Day > wrote: > > On Mon, 8 Sep 2014, Gerald Coley wrote: > > > >> Unless the distributors order boards, we do not build boards. We > >> don't get orders but rare

Re: [beagleboard] Custom Beaglbone Black from Circuitco

2014-05-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
nyone at CircuitCo around? I have money and need around 100 boards > made. not many manufacturers would consider 100 units much of a "run". that's not the sort of number that's going to get you much attention. just an observation. rday --

[beagleboard] how to activate LED on BB xM using gpio?

2014-02-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
/rootfs/wheezy/debian-7.3-console-armhf-2014-01-24.tar.xz rday -- ==== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter:

Re: [beagleboard] BBB and internet

2014-02-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ver post on the internet and am still not having luck. try this and see what happens: http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/BBB_networking_in_tethered_mode rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day

Re: [beagleboard] BBB and internet

2014-02-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 5 Feb 2014, doog wrote: > On Wednesday, February 5, 2014 8:37:08 AM UTC-8, Robert P. J. Day wrote:  >   try this and see what happens: > > http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/BBB_networking_in_tethered_mode > > rday > > > > that worke

Re: [beagleboard] Re: BBB booting from SD card but with same contents as SD card into eMMC board is not booting.Why?

2014-02-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
re_update_process rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twit

Re: [beagleboard] Re: what's the BBB boot procedure?

2014-02-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 8 Feb 2014, Rusty Wright wrote: > Another one; this one looks good: > http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/U-Boot_Commands_on_the_BBB that page probably needs to be updated a bit by now ... rday -- ====

Re: [beagleboard] Re: what's the BBB boot procedure?

2014-02-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
pages related to the base u-boot code won't really have to change much, although i'm happy with being proven wrong. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

Re: [beagleboard] Hardware availablility

2014-02-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
13,575 > December 2013 Shipments...7,192 > November 2013 Shipments9,298 > October 2013 Shipments..7,698 curious as to how these numbers compare to previous versions of beagles. rday -- =======

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Availability - how come nobody has any BeagleBone Black to sell?

2014-02-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
> > We have 140,000 board back log at this time. A lot of those orders > have only come in the last couple of months. Lead times on some > parts is 26 weeks. wow ... i'm glad i have a drawerful at home. :-) rday -- ====

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Availability - how come nobody has any BeagleBone Black to sell?

2014-02-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
fline? It's really pretty unseemly. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjda

[beagleboard] time to catch up with all the recent BBB developments

2014-03-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
x.org/BeagleBoardDebian also, robert's eewiki page: http://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBone+Black which shows no changes since jan 2. so just a pointer to the latest developments is all i need, thanks. rday -- ======== R

RE: [beagleboard] Re: Availability - how come nobody has any BeagleBone Black to sell?

2014-03-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 10 Mar 2014, Bogdan Teodorescu wrote: > So the answer is clear: move to other platform. Don't wait for the > stock go for a new board. best of luck. don't forget to write. rday -- ========

Re: [beagleboard] BeagleBone Black formatted by mistake

2014-04-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
rday -- ==== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/

Re: [beagleboard] BeagleBone Black RevB with Debian 2014-04-14 SD image -- networking issues

2014-04-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 25 Apr 2014, Gerald Coley wrote: > It has been tested for robustness. Just not tested for you. > Gerald Test nazi. No testing for *you*. rday -- ==== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, O

Re: [beagleboard] Embedded Linux and Device Driver Training Course in London

2015-01-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
their courses. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: ht

[beagleboard] questions about BBB SD cards and formatting

2015-01-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
27;ve done this, i really should do it more often. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter:

Re: [beagleboard] questions about BBB SD cards and formatting

2015-01-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, Robert Nelson wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Robert P. J. Day > wrote: > > > > been a while since i had to format an SD card from scratch for my > > BBB and, reading RCN's instructions over at eewiki.net, i have a > > coupl

Re: [beagleboard] questions about BBB SD cards and formatting

2015-01-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, Robert Nelson wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Robert P. J. Day > wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, Robert Nelson wrote: > > > >> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Robert P. J. Day > >> wrote: > >> > > >&g

Re: [beagleboard] questions about BBB SD cards and formatting

2015-01-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
people from accidentally wiping them out, is that it? other than that, there's no effective difference, correct? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday

Re: [beagleboard] questions about BBB SD cards and formatting

2015-01-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, Robert Nelson wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Robert P. J. Day > wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, Robert Nelson wrote: > > > >> > sorry, i phrased that question badly. obviously, i can always > >> > upgrade u-boot on m

[beagleboard] for people teaching embedded linux classes, a suggestion ...

2015-01-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ng should be easy. finally, add the rootfs. anyway, that's the approach i prefer, and it seems to work as students like to be able to build *and test* something fairly quickly, rather than just doing a massive amount of work, and wondering if it will work in the end. rday -- =======

Re: [beagleboard] for people teaching embedded linux classes, a suggestion ...

2015-01-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
smaller and more manageable subtasks to let students feel like they're making progress bit by bit, and makes debugging much more focused if anything goes wrong. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day O

RE: [beagleboard] for people teaching embedded linux classes, a suggestion ...

2015-01-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
s done, then i'll go back and look at tweaking kernel options. rday -- ==== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday

RE: [beagleboard] for people teaching embedded linux classes, a suggestion ...

2015-01-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ext4 filesystem where u-boot would find it. does that make sense? it's the smallest unit of progress i can think of that would still have an effect on the boot process. *then* the kernel and the dtb ... rday -- =====

Re: [beagleboard] for people teaching embedded linux classes, a suggestion ...

2015-01-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 25 Jan 2015, John Syn wrote: > > On 1/25/15, 1:33 PM, "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > > > > > still on the subject of filling out my wiki page here: > > > >http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/RCN_eewiki_BBB_page > > > >using the

[beagleboard] booting from SD card, and priority order for locating uEnv.txt

2015-01-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ot/uEnv.txt, is that correct? rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter

[beagleboard] is there a BBB-specific tutorial for device trees?

2015-02-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
e-zynq-1 which, admittedly, is still pretty good for general use, but if anyone has written something similar for the BBB, that'd be great. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ott

Re: [beagleboard] Beaglebone Black boot order

2015-02-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
c offsets on the SD card (128K and 384K, respectively, if memory serves). and those possibilities don't seem to be mentioned in your diagram. rday -- ==== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, O

[beagleboard] possible redundancy in BBB dts file?

2015-02-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
eady defines the property "regulator-always-on", defining it again in the BBB dts file is superfluous, correct? or is there something here i'm missing? rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day

[beagleboard] a couple questions about device trees and "ranges"

2015-02-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
is the point? wouldn't the same thing be achieved with a simple: ranges; which specifies that the two address spaces are identical and no address translation is required? or does the above also restrict the mapping to specifically the ranges listed there? rday -- =

Re: [beagleboard] a couple questions about device trees and "ranges"

2015-02-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 6 Feb 2015, John Syn wrote: > > On 2/6/15, 11:50 AM, "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > > > > > crawling my way through the DTS files for the BBB and i ran across > >this in am33xx.dtsi: > > > >epwmss1: epwmss@48302000 { > &g

[beagleboard] why does eewiki suggest am335x_evm_defconfig for BBB?

2015-02-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
am335x_evm_defconfig" as the basis for building u-boot for BBB. anyone explain why that is when u-boot comes explicitly with a "am335x_boneblack_defconfig" file? it just seems odd. rday -- ======

[beagleboard] easiest way to stop u-boot from searching for further uEnv.txt files?

2015-02-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
eyond the SD card ... without reconfiguring and rebuilding u-boot, what is the easiest way to do that? thanks. rday -- ==== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA h

[beagleboard] BBB u-boot lab, and what cool commands can one run within u-boot?

2015-02-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
urrent BBB u-boot page. thanks. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http

Re: [beagleboard] why does eewiki suggest am335x_evm_defconfig for BBB?

2015-02-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 10 Feb 2015, Robert Nelson wrote: > > > On Feb 10, 2015 2:38 AM, "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > > > > > >   zipping through RCN's eewiki page for building for BBB from scratch, > > and i notice in the section on u-boot > > >

Re: [beagleboard] easiest way to stop u-boot from searching for further uEnv.txt files?

2015-02-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 10 Feb 2015, Robert Nelson wrote: > > > On Feb 10, 2015 5:03 AM, "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > > > > > >   putting together a student lab for building u-boot for the BBB > > (which i'll post shortly for anyone who's interested), a

Re: [beagleboard] easiest way to stop u-boot from searching for further uEnv.txt files?

2015-02-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
another way to ask what i'm after is i want a way to take > > eMMC totally out of the boot process in a non-destructive way. > > Sorry, i bullet proofed u-boot too much for you.. challenge accepted. :-) rday --

[beagleboard] Re: BBB u-boot lab, and what cool commands can one run within u-boot?

2015-02-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
added there? all content will be publicly available, no restrictions. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter

[beagleboard] on BBB, "gpio status" help info doesn't seem to match functionality

2015-02-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
us gpio_status(); return 0; so now i see that gpio_status() is "deprecated"? so, before i launch myself into the source code to see what's going on, what variations of "gpio status" should work? rday -- ======

[beagleboard] looking for summary of latest BBB bootable/flashable images and build info

2015-03-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ware. anyway, i just want to write a short tutorial to get students up and running with their own working BBB by the end of the first day, so condensing a lot of that info down to the bare minimum is what i'm after. rday -- ===

Re: [beagleboard] looking for summary of latest BBB bootable/flashable images and build info

2015-03-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 12 Mar 2015, Robert Nelson wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Robert P. J. Day > wrote: > > > > having been away from my BBB for a couple months, i just want to > > clarify the latest content i can download and play with. > > > > for a

[beagleboard] a pre-class "getting started with BBB" page

2015-03-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
valent flasher image, correct? or the testing images would probably be fine as well -- i don't need full cape functionality but a current kernel would be nice. thoughts? another note coming up about some elinux.org pages ... rday -- ====

[beagleboard] apparently, some elinux.org pages need updating

2015-03-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
of date but i'll look at the more carefully. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter:

[beagleboard] possible pre-built ARM toolchains for BBB work?

2015-03-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
octo project toolchains: http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/yocto-1.7.1/toolchain/x86_64/ which one assumes should work just fine. any other recommendations for ready-to-go toolchains for the BBB? i just like to have choices. thanks. rday -- ==========

[beagleboard] is there a recent (2G) BBB debian SD card image with usb gadget networking?

2015-04-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Black#BeagleBoneBlack-usbgadget but is there another image that already has that enabled? thanks. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcour

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