uboot versions for beaglebone black

Hi Srini,

We recommend using the u-boot that comes with the SDK (I haven't tested mainline u-boot on my AM335x Starter kit). But in my experience with other TI EVMs mainline contains all the features needed and usually it is a good replacement for the u-boot located withing SDKs.

However you may need to tune it in the sense of booting the kernel & file system.. whether you'd like to do peripheral boot (using fastboot), sd card etc.. 

Have you tried to boot kernel and file system on your Beaglebone Black board ? Do you need to do modifications to mainline in order to load kernel & FS on your board? If not, then in my opinion you can replace the SDK7 u-boot with mainline u-boot. 

Best Regards,

Yordan

Thanks a lot Yordan for your suggestions,

1) Could you please verify uboot-2104.07(ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/u-boot-2014.07.tar.bz2), in Beaglebone black from your end & confirm as early as possible so that this version of uboot can be finalized for my custom board(as it is based on beaglebone black)

2) As of now am using eMMC boot (after copying images from SD card as per Ivan's method), probably in future I would be using fastboot as well, & I have not tested fastboot feature in uboot-2104.07, could you please test & let me know whether this feature is supported in uboot-2104.07 for Beaglebone black or any other TI EVM's if you have already tested

3) Yes I tried to boot ti sdk 7's linux kernel & rootfs & I have attached the logs as well

Could you please finally suggest me can I go ahead with uboot 2014.07 or still use u-boot located within SDK's

Kindly do the needful as early as possible

Many Many Thanks a lot Yordan for your timely support Once again

U-Boot SPL 2014.07 (Nov 10 2014 - 19:07:12)
reading u-boot.img
reading u-boot.img

U-Boot 2014.07 (Nov 10 2014 - 19:07:12)

I2C: ready
DRAM: 512 MiB
MMC: OMAP SD/MMC: 0, OMAP SD/MMC: 1
Using default environment

Net: <ethaddr> not set. Validating first E-fuse MAC
cpsw, usb_ether
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
Card did not respond to voltage select!
Card did not respond to voltage select!
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc1(part 0) is current device
SD/MMC found on device 1
reading uEnv.txt
37 bytes read in 4 ms (8.8 KiB/s)
Loaded environment from uEnv.txt
Importing environment from mmc ...
4117616 bytes read in 336 ms (11.7 MiB/s)
34352 bytes read in 43 ms (779.3 KiB/s)
Kernel image @ 0x82000000 [ 0x000000 - 0x3ed470 ]
## Flattened Device Tree blob at 88000000
Booting using the fdt blob at 0x88000000
Loading Device Tree to 8fff4000, end 8ffff62f ... OK

Starting kernel ...

[ 0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
[ 0.000000] Linux version 3.12.10-ti2013.12.01 (jenkins@sdit-build02) (gcc version 4.7.3 20130226 (prerelease) (crosstool-NG linaro-1.13.1-4.7-2013.03-20130313 - Linaro GCC 2013.03) ) #1 Sun Mar 30 20:55:31 CDT 2014
[ 0.000000] CPU: ARMv7 Processor [413fc082] revision 2 (ARMv7), cr=10c53c7d
[ 0.000000] CPU: PIPT / VIPT nonaliasing data cache, VIPT aliasing instruction cache
[ 0.000000] Machine: Generic AM33XX (Flattened Device Tree), model: TI AM335x BeagleBone
[ 0.000000] cma: CMA: reserved 24 MiB at 9e000000
[ 0.000000] Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback
[ 0.000000] CPU: All CPU(s) started in SVC mode.
[ 0.000000] AM335X ES2.1 (sgx neon )
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 129280
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyO0,115200n8 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootfstype=ext4 rootwait
[ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Memory: 483352K/521216K available (5555K kernel code, 559K rwdata, 1876K rodata, 345K init, 225K bss, 37864K reserved, 0K highmem)
[ 0.000000] Virtual kernel memory layout:
[ 0.000000] vector : 0xffff0000 - 0xffff1000 ( 4 kB)
[ 0.000000] fixmap : 0xfff00000 - 0xfffe0000 ( 896 kB)
[ 0.000000] vmalloc : 0xe0800000 - 0xff000000 ( 488 MB)
[ 0.000000] lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xe0000000 ( 512 MB)
[ 0.000000] pkmap : 0xbfe00000 - 0xc0000000 ( 2 MB)
[ 0.000000] modules : 0xbf000000 - 0xbfe00000 ( 14 MB)
[ 0.000000] .text : 0xc0008000 - 0xc074a04c (7433 kB)
[ 0.000000] .init : 0xc074b000 - 0xc07a15f0 ( 346 kB)
[ 0.000000] .data : 0xc07a2000 - 0xc082ddd8 ( 560 kB)
[ 0.000000] .bss : 0xc082ddd8 - 0xc0866400 ( 226 kB)
[ 0.000000] NR_IRQS:16 nr_irqs:16 16
[ 0.000000] IRQ: Found an INTC at 0xfa200000 (revision 5.0) with 128 interrupts
[ 0.000000] Total of 128 interrupts on 1 active controller
[ 0.000000] OMAP clockevent source: timer2 at 24000000 Hz
[ 0.000000] sched_clock: 32 bits at 24MHz, resolution 41ns, wraps every 178956ms
[ 0.000000] OMAP clocksource: timer1 at 24000000 Hz
[ 0.000000] Console: colour dummy device 80x30
[ 0.000248] Calibrating delay loop... 663.55 BogoMIPS (lpj=3317760)
[ 0.049788] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[ 0.049873] Security Framework initialized
[ 0.049912] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[ 0.055731] CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
[ 0.056063] Setting up static identity map for 0xc0572e68 - 0xc0572ed8
[ 0.056759] devtmpfs: initialized
[ 0.058179] VFP support v0.3: implementor 41 architecture 3 part 30 variant c rev 3
[ 0.117860] omap_hwmod: debugss: _wait_target_disable failed
[ 0.118448] pinctrl core: initialized pinctrl subsystem
[ 0.119122] regulator-dummy: no parameters
[ 0.121147] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 0.122824] DMA: preallocated 256 KiB pool for atomic coherent allocations
[ 0.124828] cpuidle: using governor ladder
[ 0.124842] cpuidle: using governor menu
[ 0.131224] platform mpu.1: FIXME: clock-name 'fck' DOES NOT exist in dt!
[ 0.132048] platform 49000000.edma: FIXME: clock-name 'fck' DOES NOT exist in dt!
[ 0.132994] OMAP GPIO hardware version 0.1
[ 0.139048] platform 56000000.sgx: FIXME: clock-name 'fck' DOES NOT exist in dt!
[ 0.140544] DSS not supported on this SoC
[ 0.140559] No ATAGs?
[ 0.140568] hw-breakpoint: debug architecture 0x4 unsupported.
[ 0.158136] bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
[ 0.169003] edma-dma-engine edma-dma-engine.0: TI EDMA DMA engine driver
[ 0.169646] vmmcsd_fixed: 3300 mV
[ 0.171769] vgaarb: loaded
[ 0.172742] SCSI subsystem initialized
[ 0.173751] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 0.173888] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 0.174039] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 0.174737] omap_i2c 44e0b000.i2c: could not find pctldev for node /pinmux@44e10800/pinmux_i2c0_pins, deferring probe
[ 0.174759] platform 44e0b000.i2c: Driver omap_i2c requests probe deferral
[ 0.174923] media: Linux media interface: v0.10
[ 0.175053] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[ 0.175255] pps_core: LinuxPPS API ver. 1 registered
[ 0.175263] pps_core: Software ver. 5.3.6 - Copyright 2005-2007 Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
[ 0.175361] PTP clock support registered
[ 0.177286] Switched to clocksource timer1
[ 0.191222] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 0.191737] TCP established hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[ 0.191803] TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[ 0.191841] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096)
[ 0.191895] TCP: reno registered
[ 0.191907] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.191922] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.192078] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 0.192393] RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module.
[ 0.192403] RPC: Registered udp transport module.
[ 0.192408] RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
[ 0.192413] RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.
[ 0.193116] NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.97 (double precision)
[ 0.193591] PM: Loading am335x-pm-firmware.bin
[ 0.307742] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.2
[ 0.307804] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.308292] NFS: Registering the id_resolver key type
[ 0.308361] Key type id_resolver registered
[ 0.308368] Key type id_legacy registered
[ 0.308403] jffs2: version 2.2. (NAND) (SUMMARY) © 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
[ 0.308558] msgmni has been set to 992
[ 0.309770] NET: Registered protocol family 38
[ 0.309806] io scheduler noop registered
[ 0.309813] io scheduler deadline registered
[ 0.309831] io scheduler cfq registered (default)
[ 0.311318] pinctrl-single 44e10800.pinmux: 142 pins at pa f9e10800 size 568
[ 0.314943] platform 4830e000.lcdc: Driver da8xx_lcdc requests probe deferral
[ 0.316202] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[ 0.318378] 44e09000.serial: ttyO0 at MMIO 0x44e09000 (irq = 88, base_baud = 3000000) is a OMAP UART0
[ 0.918176] console [ttyO0] enabled
[ 0.922900] omap_rng 48310000.rng: OMAP Random Number Generator ver. 20
[ 0.937347] brd: module loaded
[ 0.944431] loop: module loaded
[ 0.950201] mtdoops: mtd device (mtddev=name/number) must be supplied
[ 0.959563] usbcore: registered new interface driver asix
[ 0.965393] usbcore: registered new interface driver ax88179_178a
[ 0.971918] usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_ether
[ 0.978174] usbcore: registered new interface driver r815x
[ 0.984068] usbcore: registered new interface driver smsc95xx
[ 0.990213] usbcore: registered new interface driver net1080
[ 0.996280] usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_subset
[ 1.002595] usbcore: registered new interface driver zaurus
[ 1.008635] usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_ncm
[ 1.014946] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
[ 1.021822] ehci-pci: EHCI PCI platform driver
[ 1.026630] ehci-omap: OMAP-EHCI Host Controller driver
[ 1.032764] usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_wdm
[ 1.038870] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[ 1.045924] mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[ 1.053890] omap_rtc 44e3e000.rtc: rtc core: registered 44e3e000.rtc as rtc0
[ 1.061948] i2c /dev entries driver
[ 1.066009] Driver for 1-wire Dallas network protocol.
[ 1.073238] omap_wdt: OMAP Watchdog Timer Rev 0x01: initial timeout 60 sec
[ 1.081877] edma-dma-engine edma-dma-engine.0: allocated channel for 0:25
[ 1.089119] edma-dma-engine edma-dma-engine.0: allocated channel for 0:24
[ 1.127597] edma-dma-engine edma-dma-engine.0: allocated channel for 0:3
[ 1.134640] edma-dma-engine edma-dma-engine.0: allocated channel for 0:2
[ 1.182479] ledtrig-cpu: registered to indicate activity on CPUs
[ 1.189151] edma-dma-engine edma-dma-engine.0: allocated channel for 0:36
[ 1.196372] omap-sham 53100000.sham: hw accel on OMAP rev 4.3
[ 1.203485] omap-aes 53500000.aes: OMAP AES hw accel rev: 3.2
[ 1.209662] edma-dma-engine edma-dma-engine.0: allocated channel for 0:5
[ 1.216758] edma-dma-engine edma-dma-engine.0: allocated channel for 0:6
[ 1.227913] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[ 1.233761] usbhid: USB HID core driver
[ 1.239526] oprofile: no performance counters
[ 1.244411] oprofile: using timer interrupt.
[ 1.249222] TCP: cubic registered
[ 1.252717] Initializing XFRM netlink socket
[ 1.257218] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 1.261961] NET: Registered protocol family 15
[ 1.266686] 8021q: 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8
[ 1.271192] Key type dns_resolver registered
[ 1.276249] cpu cpu0: cpu0 regulator not ready, retry
[ 1.281658] platform cpufreq-cpu0.0: Driver cpufreq-cpu0 requests probe deferral
[ 1.289478] mmc1: BKOPS_EN bit is not set
[ 1.294170] ThumbEE CPU extension supported.
[ 1.300980] mmc1: new high speed MMC card at address 0001
[ 1.307542] mmcblk0: mmc1:0001 MMC02G 1.78 GiB
[ 1.312453] mmcblk0boot0: mmc1:0001 MMC02G partition 1 1.00 MiB
[ 1.319828] mmcblk0boot1: mmc1:0001 MMC02G partition 2 1.00 MiB
[ 1.326384] DCDC1: at 1500 mV
[ 1.330966] vdd_mpu: 925 <--> 1375 mV at 1325 mV
[ 1.336015] mmcblk0: p1 p2
[ 1.340202] vdd_core: 925 <--> 1150 mV at 1125 mV
[ 1.346560] mmcblk0boot1: unknown partition table
[ 1.351905] LDO1: at 1800 mV
[ 1.356386] mmcblk0boot0: unknown partition table
[ 1.361616] LDO2: at 3300 mV
[ 1.366305] LDO3: 1800 mV
[ 1.369979] LDO4: at 3300 mV
[ 1.373720] tps65217 0-0024: TPS65217 ID 0xe version 1.2
[ 1.499431] tda998x 0-0070: found TDA19988
[ 1.504137] omap_i2c 44e0b000.i2c: bus 0 rev0.11 at 400 kHz
[ 1.571008] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x45
[ 1.647326] davinci_mdio 4a101000.mdio: davinci mdio revision 1.6
[ 1.653735] davinci_mdio 4a101000.mdio: detected phy mask fffffffe
[ 1.660885] libphy: 4a101000.mdio: probed
[ 1.665100] davinci_mdio 4a101000.mdio: phy[0]: device 4a101000.mdio:00, driver SMSC LAN8710/LAN8720
[ 1.675289] Detected MACID = 7c:66:9d:53:87:de
[ 1.681418] omap_rtc 44e3e000.rtc: setting system clock to 2000-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (946684800)
[ 1.698665] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem
[ 1.706353] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): write access will be enabled during recovery
[ 1.724839] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): recovery complete
[ 1.773361] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 1.781928] VFS: Mounted root (ext4 filesystem) readonly on device 179:2.
[ 1.795637] devtmpfs: mounted
[ 1.799227] Freeing unused kernel memory: 344K (c074b000 - c07a1000)
INIT: version 2.88 booting
Starting udev
[ 2.450239] udevd[802]: starting version 182
[ 2.804365] PM: CM3 Firmware Version = 0x186
[ 4.846630] musb-hdrc musb-hdrc.0.auto: Enabled SW babble control
[ 4.925136] musb-hdrc musb-hdrc.0.auto: MUSB HDRC host driver
[ 4.964843] musb-hdrc musb-hdrc.0.auto: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[ 5.012419] usb usb1: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002
[ 5.019625] usb usb1: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
[ 5.027219] usb usb1: Product: MUSB HDRC host driver
[ 5.032447] usb usb1: Manufacturer: Linux 3.12.10-ti2013.12.01 musb-hcd
[ 5.039395] usb usb1: SerialNumber: musb-hdrc.0.auto
[ 5.044701] FAT-fs (mmcblk0p1): Volume was not properly unmounted. Some data may be corrupt. Please run fsck.
[ 5.087650] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 5.107494] hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected
[ 5.129189] musb-hdrc musb-hdrc.1.auto: Enabled SW babble control
[ 5.136845] musb-hdrc musb-hdrc.1.auto: MUSB HDRC host driver
[ 5.169958] musb-hdrc musb-hdrc.1.auto: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
[ 5.187618] usb usb2: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002
[ 5.194772] usb usb2: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
[ 5.202371] usb usb2: Product: MUSB HDRC host driver
[ 5.207590] usb usb2: Manufacturer: Linux 3.12.10-ti2013.12.01 musb-hcd
[ 5.214531] usb usb2: SerialNumber: musb-hdrc.1.auto
[ 5.251519] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 5.262528] hub 2-0:1.0: 1 port detected
[ 5.378117] cryptodev: driver 1.6 loaded.
Starting Bootlog daemon: bootlogd: cannot allocate pseudo tty: No such file or directory
bootlogd.
[ 5.451635] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): re-mounted. Opts: data=ordered
ALSA: Restoring mixer settings...
/usr/sbin/alsactl: load_state:1696: No soundcards found...
Configuring network interfaces... [ 6.093532] net eth0: initializing cpsw version 1.12 (0)
[ 6.101292] net eth0: phy found : id is : 0x7c0f1
[ 6.113493] 8021q: adding VLAN 0 to HW filter on device eth0
udhcpc (v1.20.2) started
Sending discover...
Sending discover...
Sending discover...
No lease, failing
done.
Mon Mar 31 02:34:00 UTC 2014
INIT: Entering runlevel: 5
Starting system message bus: dbus.
UIM SYSFS Node Not Found
Starting Dropbear SSH server: dropbear.
Starting telnet daemon.
Starting syslogd/klogd: done
Starting thttpd.
Starting PVR
Starting Lighttpd Web Server: lighttpd.
2014-03-31 02:34:01: (log.c.166) server started
/
Starting Matrix GUI application.
[ 19.942833] Number of LUNs=8
[ 19.945893] Mass Storage Function, version: 2009/09/11
[ 19.951960] LUN: removable file: (no medium)
[ 19.958250] Number of LUNs=1
[ 19.961742] LUN: file: /dev/mmcblk0p1
[ 19.965631] Number of LUNs=1
[ 19.970077] g_mass_storage gadget: Mass Storage Gadget, version: 2009/09/11
[ 19.977506] g_mass_storage gadget: userspace failed to provide iSerialNumber
[ 19.984941] g_mass_storage gadget: g_mass_storage ready
[ 20.268443] g_mass_storage gadget: high-speed config #1: Linux File-Backed Storage
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NOTICE: This file system contains the followin GPLv3 packages:
binutils-symlinks
binutils
gdbserver

If you do not wish to distribute GPLv3 components please remove
the above packages prior to distribution. This can be done using
the opkg remove command. i.e.:
opkg remove <package>
Where <package> is the name printed in the list above

NOTE: If the package is a dependency of another package you
will be notified of the dependent packages. You should
use the --force-removal-of-dependent-packages option to
also remove the dependent packages as well
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Stopping Bootlog daemon: bootlogd.

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Arago Project http://arago-project.org am335x-evm ttyO0

Arago 2013.12 am335x-evm ttyO0

am335x-evm login:

Hi,

I don't have BBB at my disposal, so I tested mainline on my AM335x Starter Kit.

-1- It works fine on my board. I had no problems booting the SDK7 from sd card with the mainline u-boot. All u-boot commands I tested (setenv, printenv, md etc.. ) worked fine on my board.

-2- when built with am335x_evm configuration u-boot does not support fastboot. You will have to enable this feature yourself for the Sitara configuration. 

-3- As I said, I had no problems booting on my AM335x Starter Kit, I don't see error messages in your log either.

Best Regards,

Yordan

Thanks a lot for your quick updates Yordan

Could you please finally update me on the following

By default fastboot feature is not enabled in  u-boot-2013.10-ti2013.12.01 in ti sdk also or what?..

if we need to enable how this feature can be enabled in u-boot-2013.10-ti2013.12.01?..

Many Thanks in advance,

Hi,

Srini S said:

By default fastboot feature is not enabled in  u-boot-2013.10-ti2013.12.01 in ti sdk also or what?..

Correct, both u-boots (mainline & SDK7 u-boot) don't support fastboot.

Srini S said:

if we need to enable how this feature can be enabled in u-boot-2013.10-ti2013.12.01?

In my experience, I've used fastboot only when working with Android on OMAP4 devices. You can check how this is implemented for OMAP4 configuration. Aadding cmd_fastboot will be very challenging; you don't have the command source (cmd_fastboot.c) added in u-boot/common folder.

Hope this helps.

Best Regards,
Yordan