[beagleboard] Re: Official eQEP driver Support

2015-11-13 Thread dickelbeck
> I would like to make known a bug we ran into with reading the eQEP module that resulted in position values not updating after exactly 1020 reads without closing the file pointer. Of course you are using a low level read function, not buffered userspace IO like fscanf(). That is, use read()

[beagleboard] Re: BBB debian problems with USB

2014-04-09 Thread dickelbeck
Toni, lsusb needs to see a directory in existence, else it goes quietly into the night. I devised this script fragment to solve the problem. Run it early in one of your boot scripts, it can be added as part of en existing script. for i in /sys/bus/usb/devices/usb*; do echo $i if [ -

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Involuntary reseting of the BBBlack.

2014-04-01 Thread dickelbeck
The boards will reboot if : a) OTG is disabled in the kernel build, and b) g_multi.ko is loaded, and c) the usb cable is disconnected. If you remove b) then they stay up. This is with kernel 3.12.9 -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message becau

[beagleboard] Re: BBB + PREEMPT_RT

2014-03-11 Thread dickelbeck
I tried PREEMPT yesterday on 3.12.9 and the ethernet seemed to work. The only thing I had a problem with was USB host. It failed the probe(). So I reverted. Years ago I filed a bug report with TI regarding the ethernet driver not working with PREEMPT in kernel 3.2. Some progress has been mad

[beagleboard] Re: DBTO is not loaded by capemgr (Capes eeprom-info is correct and dbto-file exists in /lib/firmware)

2014-03-10 Thread dickelbeck
This thread has been open for about 8 months. I've got the experience to understand this, and have spent a week looking at it for 3.12.x. There are two things I am certain of: 1) if you want to debug a hotplug event, you have to be logging it in detail. firmware loading requests are hotplug ev

[beagleboard] Re: Connecting BBB UART to another UART device

2014-03-05 Thread dickelbeck
The debug UART has both the uboot software behind it on boot, and later a linux serial console. During boot, if your device emits any characters, this will trick uboot into putting up its menu and hanging the boot process. It will be waiting for you to make a menu choice and your device will k