[Buildroot] buildroot-2017.11.1 and cape manager for Beaglebone Black.

carlos at fgh.co.uk carlos at fgh.co.uk
Wed Feb 21 10:35:26 UTC 2018


Thanks a lot, you have saved me. It's working and I owe to you a couple 
of beers :)

On 2018-02-20 13:09, Scott Ellis wrote:
> You don't need cape manager for the built-in CAN controllers of the
> BBB
> 
> or to use any CAN capes with external CAN controllers that the BBB
> 
> communicates with over SPI.
> 
> It's just a matter of adding some sections to your dts. You can do it
> with
> 
> an include to your main dts.
> 
> Here are some links for dts includes to the 4.4 mainline kernel to
> enable
> 
> the built-in CAN controllers. Just a little pin muxing. This assumes
> you
> 
> have the kernel modules enabled, which you probably do.
> 
> The cape manager stuff was never supported by mainline linux or even
> TI
> 
> linux kernels only the Beaglebone specific kernels. And it's not even
> 
> supported by the Beagleboard folks anymore.They have moved to a u-boot
> 
> 
> approach.
> 
> Cape manager is a technological dead-end.
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