BEAGL-PLAY-SBC: Port SK-AM62 to BeaglePlay - Doesn't boot

Hi Daniel,

The SD card boot partition doesn't look familiar. I don't remember seeing those many files over there.

-rw-r--r-- 1 a1244925 a1244925 279289 aug. 22 09:03 tiboot3-am62x-gp-evm.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 a1244925 a1244925 281878 aug. 22 09:03 tiboot3-am62x-hs-evm.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 a1244925 a1244925 281878 aug. 22 09:03 tiboot3-am62x-hs-fs-evm-am62xx-evm-k3r5-2025.01+git-r0_tisdk_6.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 a1244925 a1244925 281878 aug. 22 09:03 tiboot3-am62x-hs-fs-evm.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 a1244925 a1244925 279289 aug. 22 09:03 tiboot3.bin

But can you please try to copy tiboot3-am62x-hs-fs-evm.bin to tiboot3.bin to see if can boot on BeaglePlay?

$ sudo cp tiboot3-am62x-hs-fs-evm.bin tiboot3.bin

Hi Bin,

All these files are copied over to the SD card when using the script create-sdcard.sh, inside ti-processor-sdk-linux-am62xx-evm-11.01.05.03/bin.

tiboot3-default.bin was created by me when I made a backup of the original and copied tiboot3-am62x-gp-evm.bin to tiboot3.bin

I now tried your suggestion but I keep getting the same. Cannot find a bootable image inside the SD card.

U-Boot SPL 2025.01-00527-gd2a72467939e (Jul 01 2025 - 21:23:47 +0000)
SYSFW ABI: 4.0 (firmware rev 0x000b '11.1.2--v11.01.02 (Fancy Rat)')
Changed A53 CPU frequency to 1250000000Hz (T grade) in DT
SPL initial stack usage: 13424 bytes
Trying to boot from MMC1
Starting ATF on ARM64 core...

NOTICE:  BL31: v2.12.4(release):lts-v2.12.4
NOTICE:  BL31: Built : 21:09:14, Jun 27 2025
I/TC:
I/TC: OP-TEE version: 4.6.0 (gcc version 12.2.0 (Debian 12.2.0-14+deb12u1)) #1 F                                                                                                                                                             ri Jun 27 21:09:14 UTC 2025 aarch64
I/TC: WARNING: This OP-TEE configuration might be insecure!
I/TC: WARNING: Please check https://optee.readthedocs.io/en/latest/architecture/                                                                                                                                                             porting_guidelines.html
I/TC: Primary CPU initializing
I/TC: GIC redistributor base address not provided
I/TC: Assuming default GIC group status and modifier
I/TC: SYSFW ABI: 4.0 (firmware rev 0x000b '11.1.2--v11.01.02 (Fancy Rat)')
I/TC: HUK Initialized
I/TC: Primary CPU switching to normal world boot

U-Boot SPL 2025.07-rc5-g4dcfdc709b8d (Jun 27 2025 - 21:09:14 +0000)
SYSFW ABI: 4.0 (firmware rev 0x000b '11.1.2--v11.01.02 (Fancy Rat)')
SPL initial stack usage: 1760 bytes
Trying to boot from MMC1
cannot find image node '': -1


U-Boot 2025.07-rc5-g4dcfdc709b8d (Jun 27 2025 - 21:09:14 +0000)

SoC:   AM62X SR1.0 GP
Model: BeagleBoard.org BeaglePlay
DRAM:  2 GiB
Core:  108 devices, 31 uclasses, devicetree: separate
MMC:   mmc@fa10000: 0, mmc@fa00000: 1, mmc@fa20000: 2
Loading Environment from nowhere... OK
In:    serial@2800000
Out:   serial@2800000
Err:   serial@2800000
Net:   eth0: ethernet@8000000port@1
Press SPACE to abort autoboot in 2 seconds
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc1 is current device
SD/MMC found on device 1
607 bytes read in 4 ms (147.5 KiB/s)
Loaded env from uEnv.txt
Importing environment from mmc1 ...
Scanning for bootflows in all bootdevs
Seq  Method       State   Uclass    Part  Name                      Filename
---  -----------  ------  --------  ----  ------------------------  ------------
Scanning bootdev 'mmc@fa00000.bootdev':
Scanning bootdev 'mmc@fa10000.bootdev':
  0  extlinux     ready   mmc          1  mmc@fa10000.bootdev.part_ /extlinux/ex
** Booting bootflow 'mmc@fa10000.bootdev.part_1' with extlinux
BeaglePlay eMMC (extlinux.conf) (swap enabled)
1:      eMMC (failsafe)
2:      eMMC disable BCFSERIAL
3:      copy eMMC to microSD
4:      eMMC (debug)
5:      eMMC (default)
Enter choice: 5:        eMMC (default)
Retrieving file: /Image.gz
append: root=/dev/mmcblk0p3 ro rootfstype=ext4 resume=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootwait net.ifnames=0 quiet
Retrieving file: /ti/k3-am625-beagleplay.dtb
   Uncompressing Kernel Image to 0
## Flattened Device Tree blob at 88000000
   Booting using the fdt blob at 0x88000000
Working FDT set to 88000000
   Loading Device Tree to 000000008ffed000, end 000000008ffffbd3 ... OK
Working FDT set to 8ffed000

Starting kernel ...

I/TC: Secondary CPU 1 initializing
I/TC: Secondary CPU 1 switching to normal world boot
I/TC: Secondary CPU 2 initializing
I/TC: Secondary CPU 2 switching to normal world boot
I/TC: Secondary CPU 3 initializing
I/TC: Secondary CPU 3 switching to normal world boot
I/TC: Reserved shared memory is enabled
I/TC: Dynamic shared memory is enabled
I/TC: Normal World virtualization support is disabled
I/TC: Asynchronous notifications are disabled
[    1.688003] am65-cpsw-nuss 8000000.ethernet: Use random MAC address
[    1.756248] bq32k 0-0068: hctosys: unable to read the hardware clock

Best,

Daniel

Hi Daniel,

My coworker borrowed my BeaglePlay board a few weeks ago. I am waiting for getting it back and check on this problem.

Hi Daniel,

The AM62x SDK download page provides a dedicated sdcard wic image for BeaglePlay board. Can you please test with this image?

https://dr-download.ti.com/software-development/software-development-kit-sdk/MD-PvdSyIiioq/11.01.05.03/tisdk-default-image-beagleplay-ti-11.01.05.03.rootfs.wic.xz

Hi Bin,

Thanks, that one works. However it is missing some libraries (e.g, lib-coap) for the cross-compilation setup.

So I need to use  tisdk-default-image-am62xx-evm.rootfs.tar.xz as described here

ti-wisunfantund/INSTALL_AM62X_SK.md at release · TexasInstruments/ti-wisunfantund · GitHub

Is it possible to make BeaglePlay boot with that image?

Best,

Daniel

Hi Daniel,

I think it is possible. One way to do it is:

- flash the beagleplay image "tisdk-default-image-beagleplay-ti-11.01.05.03.rootfs.wic.xz" to the sdcard;
- mount the sdcard rootfs partition to the Lunix PC, and rename "/boot/" and "/lib/modues/<kernel-version>/" to something else to avoid overwritting;
- delete the rest of the directories from the sdcard rootfs partition;
- untar the file "tisdk-default-image-am62xx-evm.rootfs.tar.xz" to the sdcard rootfs partition;
- rename back "/boot/" and "/lib/modules/<kernel-version>/" to their original names;
- umount the sdcard.