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

[Daiane Angolini]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Nikolay Dimitrov <picmaster at mail.bg> wrote:
> 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.

Thanks a lot.

Please, send a patch replacing my name by yours ;)

Otavio, can this change be included in fido as well?

Daiane
>
> Regards,
> Nikolay