[meta-ti] BeagleBone Black: cannot access USB MSC devices

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

Please don't use core-image-minimal (e.g. core-image-base is much better), if 
you want to get anything useful out of it, besides just booting, including 
such tools as fdisk, lsusb, etc. Thanks.


On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 02:16:09AM +0000, Patkar, Sarvesh S. wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am a beginner in Yocto and still learning to configure the images 
> generated.
> 
> I am trying to use USB devices with the BeagleBone Black (Rev C) . 
> Specifically, I want to access a Mass Storage Class Device (a USB Flash 
> Drive) from the BeagleBone Black. I used the meta, meta-poky and meta-ti 
> layers to build a core-image-minimal image for beaglebone machine. On 
> booting up with the image, I do not see any obvious errors. However, it 
> cannot detect the presence of a USB Device connected to it. I checked this 
> using fdisk -l. lsusb command is not found.
> 
> I went through an old email chain 
> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/linux-yocto/2014-June/002787.html 
> to find if there was a solution. One of the things mentioned was to use 
> menuconfig to configure the kernel for built-in USB support. But, I am not 
> sure if the .config file is being picked up by bitbake.
> 
> How do I enable USB support for MSC devices on BeagleBone Black?
> 
> poky branch= sumo-19.0.0
> meta-ti branch= ti2018.02
> 
> Thanks for the help!
> Sarvesh
> 

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