[meta-freescale] [meta-fsl-arm-extra] Booting RIoTboard

[Nikolay Dimitrov]

Hi Otavio,

On 04/23/2015 03:21 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Daiane Angolini <daiane.list at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Otavio Salvador
>> <otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
>>> Hello Nikolay and Gary,
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 9:22 PM, Nikolay Dimitrov <picmaster at mail.bg> wrote:
>>>> On 04/23/2015 03:18 AM, Nikolay Dimitrov wrote:
>>>>> On 04/23/2015 12:37 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've just built an image for the i.MX6DL/RIoTboard using the latest
>>>>>> master (fido).  I had to add this line to local.conf:
>>>>>> MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS_remove_imx6dl-riotboard =
>>>>>> "fsl-alsa-plugins" as the fsl-alsa-plugins won't currently build with
>>>>>> Linux-4.0
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Now I'm trying to boot the image.  I've copied it to my SD card and
>>>>>> set the switches appropriately (I found two web pages about this and
>>>>>> they have conflicting information!  The answer seems to be
>>>>>> SW1-SW8=On/Off/On/Off/Off/On/Off/On)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I have 2 riotboards both booting from sdcards, here are their
>>>>> configurations:
>>>>> - slot J6 (USDHC2), SW1-8 = On/Off/On/Off/Off/On/On/Off
>>>>> - slot J7 (USDHC3), SW1-8 = On/Off/On/Off/Off/On/Off/On
>>>>>
>>>>>> I get the U-Boot prompt from the image I built (it has today's date),
>>>>>> but the SD card doesn't boot from there.  The default boot commands
>>>>>> seem to be looking for boot scripts, etc, but there are none on the
>>>>>> SD card, only a zImage and DTB file.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there some documentation, perhaps in meta-fsl-arm-extra, that
>>>>>> helps (and I've missed)??
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any help on how to boot this board would be appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Fido uses U-Boot v2015.04. Assuming that you haven't modifed the
>>>>> upstream version, v2015.04 uses extlinux boot mechanism, which requires
>>>>> the following files to be available on your boot partition:
>>>>>
>>>>> /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf
>>>>> /boot/imx6dl-riotboard.dtb
>>>>> /boot/uImage
>>>>>
>>>>> Extlinux.conf should have the following content:
>>>>>
>>>>> default yocto
>>>>> label yocto
>>>>> kernel /boot/uImage
>>>>> devicetree /boot/imx6dl-riotboard.dtb
>>>>> append console=ttymxc1,115200 root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rw
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Of course, change root= to suit your configuration.
>>>
>>> I have reverted the conversion of the board for now. This should make
>>> it work out of box until we add support for the generic script.
>>>
>>> I will be sending those patches in some minutes and include them in
>>> master-next for testing.
>>
>> Otavio, unfortunately I don't have access to this board anymore, so
>> I'm not going to be able to test it
>>
>> I would appreciate if someone else could become the RioT board mantainer.
>
> Thanks for letting us know. Gary, Nikolay? Anyone?

I can volunteer.

Regards,
Nikolay