Re: BeagleBone uboot: BeagleBone Green Gateway not defined in uboot?
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2022 21:05:11 UTC
On 2022-Oct-24, at 12:35, Johan Henselmans <johan@netsense.nl> wrote: > I have tried to boot a Beaglebone Green Gateway via the current GenericSD.img.xz at https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/arm/armv7/ISO-IMAGES/13.0/FreeBSD-13.0-RELEASE-arm-armv7-GENERICSD.img.xz You list 13.0-RELEASE 's image instead of 13.1-RELEASE 's image: http://ftp3.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/13.1/FreeBSD-13.1-RELEASE-arm-armv7-GENERICSD.img.xz (I've no clue if it makes a difference.) > The board booted, but it did not have anything functional in the sense of wland or ethernet. > > So I installed (after putting the SD-card in a BeagleBone Green, which was able to find an ethernet port and a working internet connection) the beaglebone uboot: > ===== > pkg install sysutils/u-boot-beaglebone > ===== pkg install sysutils/u-boot-beaglebone only puts things in the likes of: /usr/local/share/u-boot/u-boot-beaglebone/ /usr/local/share/u-boot/u-boot-beaglebone/ probably ended up with a README or some such file name for the content shown below. # more /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-beaglebone/pkg-descr U-Boot loader for BeagleBone and BeagleBone Black. To install this bootloader, copy the files MLO and bb-uboot.img to the FAT partition on an SD card or the eMMC. Normally this is partition 1, but different partitions can be set with U-Boot environment variables. This version is patched so that: * API features are enabled. * A boot.scr (U-Boot scripts ) that loads ubldr.bin and execute it is included For information about running FreeBSD on BeagleBone or BeagleBone Black, see https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm/BeagleBone You were not explicit. Did you do as described with MLO and bb-uboot.img ? > That resulted in the message that there was no device tree: > ===== > Loading Environment from EXT4... > ** Unable to use mmc 0:1 for loading the env ** > Board: BeagleBone Black > <ethaddr> not set. Validating first E-fuse MAC > BeagleBone Black: > Model: SeeedStudio BeagleBone Green Gateway: > BeagleBone: cape eeprom: i2c_probe: 0x54: > BeagleBone: cape eeprom: i2c_probe: 0x55: > BeagleBone: cape eeprom: i2c_probe: 0x56: > BeagleBone: cape eeprom: i2c_probe: 0x57: > Net: eth0: MII MODE > cpsw, usb_ether > Press SPACE to abort autoboot in 0 seconds > board_name=[A335BNLT] ... > board_rev=[GG1A] ... > switch to partitions #0, OK > mmc0 is current device > SD/MMC found on device 0 > switch to partitions #0, OK > mmc0 is current device > Scanning mmc 0:1... > Found EFI removable media binary efi/boot/bootarm.efi > libfdt fdt_check_header(): FDT_ERR_BADMAGIC > > <snip> > No valid device tree blob found! > WARNING! Trying to fire up the kernel, but no device tree blob found! > ===== > > > How can I add a device tree blob for the BeagleBone Green Gateway? > Note: I've no experience with any BeagleBone variant. My comments are rather generic. === Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com