[poky] Booting BeagleBoard

[Darren Hart]

On 02/12/2011 06:55 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 02/12/2011 07:52 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> I have a BeagleBoard C3 (not the new xM). Trying to run the
>> latest Poky ran into some problems:
>>
>> * The boot commands in README.hardware are no longer accurate
>> for the 2.6.37 (linux-yocto) kernel. At least you need to
>> use ttyO2 for the serial console.
>> * There is no video? /dev/fb0 is not being created.
>>
>> I know that the previous (Angstrom based) 2.6.32 kernel had
>> lots of additions which support video (DSS subsystem) and
>> also camera (ISP). Has this support been ported forward
>> into the Yocto kernel?
>>
>> Perhaps I missed some setting?
>
> One more thing - I'm running with external power and have
> a USB hub with a number of devices attached. Sadly, none
> of these are being recognized.


Interesting. I've applied a patch from Koen's tree to enable the 
on-board hub of the xM, and I've heard of others complain about finicky 
USB behavior on the C3. As I said, I don't have a C3 in hand (yet), so I 
could use some help in this area.


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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel