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Nov 03 07:01:35 <Adjvan> I've got a Beaglebone black with a TI BBB_PRU_CAPE on top of it. I can list all my serial ports on the BB but if I try to check them through Minicom I don't get any reponce.
Nov 03 07:02:44 <Adjvan> I've tried to find something on the net and it looks like you have to configure it in uEnv.txt but I get conflicting answers as to how exactly.
Nov 03 07:04:12 <tbr> does that cape have an EEPROM?
Nov 03 07:05:33 <Adjvan> Yes it does.
Nov 03 07:06:12 <tbr> then it would be good to check if the kernel loaded any cape overlays
Nov 03 07:06:23 <tbr> and then check what sort of peripherals this cape configures
Nov 03 07:10:15 <tbr> also the way you configure things will be completely different depending on which kernel and distro you run on the board
Nov 03 07:12:45 <Adjvan> I've used the latest Stretch from the Beaglebone site
Nov 03 07:13:06 <Adjvan> Still trying to find my feet as I'm new to this
Nov 03 07:13:52 <tbr> how familiar are you with linux in general?
Nov 03 07:14:30 <Adjvan> I know some basics
Nov 03 07:17:26 <Adjvan> I had an older version on it but bricked it by disabling the hdmi so I had to load the new distro but the the new uEnv.txt looks totally different in this version so I assume things have change between the two versions
Nov 03 07:18:55 <tbr> yeah, sounds like you were on some rather old version previously. The way U-Boot is set up changed "recently"
Nov 03 07:21:13 <Adjvan> I've noticed yes. Will have to Google it a lot more
Nov 03 07:21:32 <tbr> basically it no longer lives on the FAT partition
Nov 03 07:21:55 <tbr> I can't help you that much as I haven't touched that part in quite a while
Nov 03 07:22:33 <tbr> regarding the cape. There should be a virtual file in the /sys tree that you can read for loaded capes and such
Nov 03 07:23:15 <Adjvan> Yesterday on the old distro there was something I typed from Google which showed me that it did see the board but now I can't remember.
Nov 03 07:24:04 <Adjvan> I was something like  echo BB-BONE-<I can't rember this part> >/sys/devices/bone_capemgr.9/slots
Nov 03 07:24:35 <tbr> this probably applies in some way: https://www.thing-printer.com/cape-manager-is-back-baby/
Nov 03 07:25:01 <tbr> see if you can: cat /sys/devices/platform/bone_capemgr/slots
Nov 03 07:25:25 <tbr> if not a quick and dirty way is: "find /sys |grep slots"
Nov 03 07:26:25 <Adjvan> I can yes but the list looks empty
Nov 03 07:26:53 <tbr> it should at least show the virtual capes IIRC
Nov 03 07:29:49 <Adjvan> with the second command I see some slots yes
Nov 03 07:30:38 <tbr> ok. then you should be able to "echo CAPEOVERLAYNAME > /sys/devices/platform/bone_capemgr/slots" (I don't know the proper name for yours)
Nov 03 07:32:06 <tbr> https://github.com/beagleboard/bb.org-overlays are the overlays that should be available to you on the board already
Nov 03 07:32:21 <Adjvan> Thank you
Nov 03 07:32:24 <tbr> more specifically https://github.com/beagleboard/bb.org-overlays/tree/master/src/arm
Nov 03 07:33:26 <tbr> I'd expect you can just echo the filename (minus the .dts)
Nov 03 07:33:43 <tbr> dmesg should tell you what then happened
Nov 03 14:07:47 <zmatt> tbr: beware that the above isn't really true anymore since u-boot overlays
Nov 03 14:32:26 <tbr> zmatt: oh, ok
Nov 03 15:04:19 <zmatt> I mean, overlays still exist but they're loaded and applied to the DT by u-boot before it passes the DT to the kernel, so you won't find anything about it in the kernel log
Nov 03 15:06:05 <zmatt> though, I think it's not guaranteed that people using the latest image will be using u-boot overlays, since if they run off sd card rather than flashing to eMMC, they'll still be using the u-boot on eMMC which is likely to be too old to support u-boot overlays
Nov 03 19:27:17 <wmat> jkridner: ping
Nov 04 00:36:03 <worm_duel> set_ here. Someone stole my damn name.
Nov 04 00:36:50 <worm_duel> Are we using kernel 4.14.x w/ our systems now?
Nov 04 00:36:56 <worm_duel> ...
Nov 04 00:37:50 <worm_duel> I am asking b/c I saw a couple posts on the elinux site.
Nov 04 00:43:45 <worm_duel> ...never worry. I will test it out.
Nov 04 00:48:11 <worm_duel> updating now!
Nov 04 00:58:11 <worm_duel> ...it done work-ed.
Nov 04 00:58:29 <worm_duel> My software still runs w/out a hitch.
Nov 04 01:02:47 <worm_duel> So...
Nov 04 01:03:07 <worm_duel> I am helping this person w/ the Motor Bridge Cape on the Hub at seeed-studio's service spot.
Nov 04 01:03:43 <worm_duel> ...Blah. Forget it.
Nov 04 02:53:33 <worm_duel> Hello...I am running kernel 4.4.x and I want to downgrade to 4.1.x. How can I downgrade to kernel 4.1?
Nov 04 02:56:51 <worm_duel> I mean...is there an easy way or do I have to downgrade to a completely new .img file?
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