[meta-freescale] /dev/fb0 missing with nitrogen6x and latest Yocto&meta-fsl-arm master

[Carlos Rafael Giani]

Nevermind. You are right. I made the mistake of assuming that the 
nitrogen behaves like the Sabre board (= that it reads the u-boot from 
the SD card). When I boot, it indeed is a U-Boot version from 2014. I'll 
upgrade.


On 2016-08-27 07:19, Carlos Rafael Giani wrote:
> Hm.
>
> I let bitbake generate the entire image. That is, rootfs+boot 
> partition+partition table+u-boot in one file, which I copied over to 
> the SD card with dd.
> Plus, the current u-boot version in meta-fsl-arm-extra is actually 
> 2016.03: 
> https://github.com/Freescale/meta-fsl-arm-extra/blob/master/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-boundary_git.bb
>
> On 2016-08-27 01:44, Eric Nelson wrote:
>> Hi Carlos,
>>
>> On 08/26/2016 12:11 PM, Carlos Rafael Giani wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I just built an image for the nitrogen6x with poky, meta-openembedded,
>>> meta-fsl-arm, meta-fsl-arm-extra, meta-fsl-demos all at the latest
>>> master. boundary-kernel version is 4.1.15.
>>>
>>> Looking at /dev/ shows that there is no /dev/fb0, fb1, or any fbX 
>>> device
>>> node!
>>>
>> I suspect that you need to upgrade your U-Boot.
>>
>> The latest from Boundary is v2016.03:
>>     https://boundarydevices.com/u-boot-v2016-03/
>>
>> There are some notes in the section labeled "New Features" here
>> about how to use U-Boot to configure your display(s):
>>     https://boundarydevices.com/compiling-latest-u-boot-for-i-mx6-2015-edition/ 
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>> Eric
>