[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] beaglebone: better support for starting and creating images
Stephan Hoffmann
sho at relinux.de
Wed Jul 2 07:01:03 UTC 2014
Hello community,
is there really no interest in this patch?
I personally think it would be a great improvement for beaglebone
support, but do not feel suficiently familiar with buildrooot to apply
Acked-by.
Kind regards
Stephan
Am 09.06.2014 15:37, schrieb Marcin Jabrzyk:
> Tried it one more time and it works fine for master.
>
> Tested-by: Marcin Jabrzyk <marcin.jabrzyk at gmail.com>
>
> W dniu 26.05.2014 20:27, Stephan Hoffmann pisze:
>> Am 14.03.2014 13:13, schrieb Marcin Jabrzyk:
>>> - Added short readme file with description of first steps how to start.
>>> - Added uEnv.txt so the board can start from SDCard
>>> - Added post-image.sh script to copy included uEnv.txt to output/images
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Marcin Jabrzyk <marcin.jabrzyk at gmail.com>
>> Tested-by: Stephan Hoffmann <sho at relinux.de>
>>> ---
>> The patch still applies to the current HEAD. I tested it with both
>> BeagleBone and BeagleBoneBlack as described in the readme file.
>>> board/beaglebone/post-image.sh | 6 ++++
>>> board/beaglebone/readme.txt | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>> board/beaglebone/uEnv.txt | 3 ++
>>> configs/beaglebone_defconfig | 1 +
>>> 4 files changed, 72 insertions(+)
>>> create mode 100755 board/beaglebone/post-image.sh
>>> create mode 100644 board/beaglebone/readme.txt
>>> create mode 100644 board/beaglebone/uEnv.txt
>>>
>>> diff --git a/board/beaglebone/post-image.sh b/board/beaglebone/post-image.sh
>>> new file mode 100755
>>> index 0000000..7441d07
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/board/beaglebone/post-image.sh
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
>>> +#!/bin/sh
>>> +# post-image.sh for BeagleBone
>>> +# 2014, Marcin Jabrzyk <marcin.jabrzyk at gmail.com>
>>> +
>>> +# copy the uEnv.txt to the output/images directory
>>> +cp board/beaglebone/uEnv.txt $BINARIES_DIR/uEnv.txt
>>> diff --git a/board/beaglebone/readme.txt b/board/beaglebone/readme.txt
>>> new file mode 100644
>>> index 0000000..dc44751
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/board/beaglebone/readme.txt
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
>>> +BeagleBone
>>> +
>>> +Intro
>>> +=====
>>> +To be able to use BeagleBone board with the images generated by
>>> +Buildroot, you have prepare the SDCard.
>>> +
>>> +How to build it
>>> +===============
>>> +
>>> + $ make beaglebone_defconfig
>>> +
>>> +Then you can edit the build options using
>>> +
>>> + $ make menuconfig
>>> +
>>> +Compile all and build rootfs image:
>>> +
>>> + $ make
>>> +
>>> +Result of the build
>>> +-------------------
>>> +
>>> +After building, you should get a tree like this:
>>> +
>>> + output/images/
>>> + ├── am335x-boneblack.dtb
>>> + ├── am335x-bone.dtb
>>> + ├── MLO
>>> + ├── rootfs.ext2
>>> + ├── u-boot.img
>>> + ├── uEnv.txt
>>> + └── zImage
>>> +
>>> +
>>> +Prepare you SDCard
>>> +==================
>>> +
>>> +You need to prepare first partition in fat32 and marked as bootable,
>>> +and second where you will write rootfs.
>>> +
>>> +Copy the files to boot partition
>>> +
>>> + $ cp MLO u-boot.img zImage uEnv.txt *.dtb /media/zzzzz
>>> +
>>> +where /media/zzzzz is the mount point
>>> +Then you need to write the rootfs image onto SDCard:
>>> +
>>> + # dd if=rootfs.ext2 of=/dev/xxxxx
>>> +
>>> +where /dev/xxxxx is the second partition. Use:
>>> +
>>> + # fdisk -l
>>> +
>>> +to check for correct one.
>>> +
>>> +Finish
>>> +======
>>> +
>>> +Unmount all mounted SDCard partitions and insert the card to BeagleBone.
>>> +Hold the "BOOT" button and apply power. Then release the "BOOT" button.
>>> +The output is available on the serial console.
>>> \ No newline at end of file
>>> diff --git a/board/beaglebone/uEnv.txt b/board/beaglebone/uEnv.txt
>>> new file mode 100644
>>> index 0000000..68d6e23
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/board/beaglebone/uEnv.txt
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
>>> +bootpart=0:1
>>> +bootdir=
>>> +uenvcmd=run loaduimage;run loadramdisk;run findfdt;run loadfdt;run ramboot
>>> diff --git a/configs/beaglebone_defconfig b/configs/beaglebone_defconfig
>>> index 3181c66..b2052f4 100644
>>> --- a/configs/beaglebone_defconfig
>>> +++ b/configs/beaglebone_defconfig
>>> @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_HOSTNAME="beaglebone"
>>> BR2_ROOTFS_DEVICE_CREATION_DYNAMIC_DEVTMPFS=y
>>> BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY_PORT="ttyO0"
>>> # BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_REMOUNT_ROOTFS_RW is not set
>>> +BR2_ROOTFS_POST_IMAGE_SCRIPT="board/beaglebone/post-image.sh"
>>>
>>> # filesystem
>>> BR2_PACKAGE_AM33X_CM3=y
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