Re: Beaglebone Black/Green/Blue support (volunteering)

On Sat, Sep 14, 2024 at 3:45 PM Zach Metzinger <zmetzing@pobox.com> wrote:

> On 9/13/24 17:06, Warner Losh wrote:
> > Yea, the TI support isn't in GENERIC, but you can still build a the
> > TI kernel you need for this.
> >
> > It's broken on -current (which is why it isn't in GENERIC) due to DTS
> >  changes in Linux (there's a lot of churn there, and we need someone
> > that can help us keep up as we import new DTS from Linux).
> >
> > armv7 will be in 15, so if you get it working, and plan on sticking
> > around to keep it working, we should get that into main.
> I've been able to boot 13.4 on my BBG, albeit with some complaining from
> the kernel and what appears to be horrifically-slow SD card I/O. I've
> got a TFTP/NFS server but haven't tried booting/mountroot via that path
> just yet.
>
> I'll take a look at -current and the Linux device tree files for this
> board. I'm familiar enough with device trees (having used SunOS and
> Solaris on many things sun4c, 4m, .. back in my admin days).
>

Sounds good. The issues are all that the nodes in the FDT have changed
from what they used to be. You might find yourself finding 'stable' points
just
before DTS imports from Linux you can use to puzzle out what's going wrong.

Warner


> --- Zach
>