devices: beagleboard & wandboard: initial testing

[jim255]

Wandboard Banana Pi M2 (original Allwinner A31s) Beagle boards running TI AM3358 & AM5729 And a yet to be released Beagle based on TI J721e (ARM64) ... I guess I'll try to figure out the configuration... -Jim

[paralin]

Hi, welcome, I'll take a look at those today and see how quickly I can add configs. Might be just an hour or so this evening.

[jim255]

I'll gladly debug, when ready to test! -Jim

[paralin]

Added bananapi/m2 configuration layer.

[paralin]

Added freescale/wandboard configuration layer.

[paralin]

@jim255 looking forward to hearing how those two configs work for you. Let me know if you'd like a precompiled image - I can make & upload one for you.

[jim255]

I'm having difficulties building. this is the error I'm seeing. make[1]: Entering directory '/home/janderso/Desktop/SkiffOS-master/build' fatal: not in a git directory Failed to register Git Hooks. fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git make[1]: [Makefile:20: ensure-submodule] Error 128 make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/janderso/Desktop/SkiffOS-master/build' make: [Makefile:2: configure] Error 2 What am I doing wrong?

[paralin]

@jim255 please use git to clone the repo instead of downloading it.

"git clone https://github.com/skiffos/skiffos"

[jim255]

SKIFF_CONFIG=bananapi/m2,core/debian failed to build on Ubuntu 20.04 Log of errors: /home/janderso/bpim2/skiffos/workspaces/default/build/host-cmake-3.18.6/Bootstrap.cmk/cmake_bootstrap.log cmake_bootstrap.log

[paralin]

@jim255 That log doesn't show anything, could you instead send the skiff build output?

[jim255]

Wandboard also won't build. wandboard.build.log

[paralin]

@jim255 It seems you don't have gcc installed.

You will need to install it:

apt-get install build-essential

The full list of buildroot deps is in the manual.

[jim255]

I'm in the process of porting everything over to the Ubuntu 22.04 server system. I caught the g++ errors after posting this, installed that and all the "suggested packages" on that system. My 20.04 workstation system just doesn't have the memory and/or horsepower. However I may have fixed everything.. Testing today.

[paralin]

Yeah I actually had two other people report the same issue and so I've added the link to the list of dependencies to the readme and will add some checks later which warn the user if the deps aren't installed. Thanks for testing!

[jim255]

I also added suggestions into the Beagleboard community to have a look here.. Is there a command or process to build an (.img) image file without using an sd-card?

[paralin]

Yes, for example make cmd/pi/common/buildimage

That will allocate a file on disk, mount it with a loop device, then run the usual format + install commands against the loop device, then unmount the loop device.

This just makes the kernel emulate a sd card with a file.

[paralin]

@jim255 The beagleboard config for beaglebone ai is available at: https://github.com/skiffos/SkiffOS/pull/123

I need to build + test it still.

[jim255]

latest build failure freescale/wandboard config.

excerpt t

uboot 2022.04 Installing to images directory cp -dpf /home/janderso/skiffos/workspaces/wandboard/build/uboot-2022.04/u-boot.bin /home/janderso/skiffos/workspaces/wandboard/images/ cp -dpf /home/janderso/skiffos/workspaces/wandboard/build/uboot-2022.04/u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin /home/janderso/skiffos/workspaces/wandboard/images/ cp: cannot stat '/home/janderso/skiffos/workspaces/wandboard/build/uboot-2022.04/u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin': No such file or directory make[3]: [package/pkg-generic.mk:373: /home/janderso/skiffos/workspaces/wandboard/build/uboot-2022.04/.stamp_images_installed] Error 1 make[2]: [Makefile:23: _all] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/janderso/skiffos/workspaces/wandboard' make[1]: [Makefile:64: compile] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/janderso/skiffos/build' make: [Makefile:2: compile] Error 2

[paralin]

@jim255 please pull "master" and "make compile" to resume the build.

No need to rebuild.

git pull
make compile

I fixed this in e195b99a3800ed1f6c4664763e6ccc91d75d6904

[jim255]

I did that, it's still referencing the non existent u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin ????

[paralin]

Ah, please also rm -rf ./workspaces/wandboard/build/uboot-2022.04 @jim255

[jim255]

still no joy.....

[paralin]

@jim255 Just to confirm you've pulled latest master, deleted build/uboot-2022.04, and "make configure compile"?

I'll run a build on my end to reproduce it.

[jim255]

twice!

[paralin]

@jim255 OK, I found a issue with how uboot was configured, please pull & delete u-boot & make configure compile once more.

See commit b8874f55b1f862645ddf68cee7f2709c3123c210

[paralin]

I pushed one more commit 14f892dd8f2a68b80dfe854f9dc8807fd5a1143a to fix the install script.

The build completed successfully for me this time.

EDIT: .... and one more commit 7d9e24b5fcc04045f07c46641707b7644a58be2d to fix install_sd

EDIT: +2 after that as well :)

[paralin]

@jim255 the beagleboard builds are ready at #123 however from my testing on a beagleboard ai, it ignores the sd card and boots from internal memory instead. I don't have a serial debug cable (ordered one) to debug that currently. Will post updates in the PR.

[jim255]

There are 2 buttons next to the network connector. Press both to reset, release order determines the persistent boot device setting.

[paralin]

@jim255 Works now correctly, beaglebone/ai merged to master.

Edit: Only remaining thing is to work out a few firmware things (wifi and CPU firmware).

[paralin]

hey @jim255 - been using the beaglebone ai w/ skiff for a week or so now, works fine! looking forward to hearing if you've had a chance to test.