On 02/02/2020 18:34, Vijay Kumar Banerjee wrote: > > > > On Sun, Feb 2, 2020 at 9:49 PM Christian Mauderer <l...@c-mauderer.de > <mailto:l...@c-mauderer.de>> wrote: > > > On 31/01/2020 17:43, Vijay Kumar Banerjee wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 9:59 PM Christian Mauderer > <l...@c-mauderer.de <mailto:l...@c-mauderer.de> > > <mailto:l...@c-mauderer.de <mailto:l...@c-mauderer.de>>> wrote: > > > > On 31/01/2020 17:25, Christian Mauderer wrote: > > > On 31/01/2020 16:04, Vijay Kumar Banerjee wrote: > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> While trying to run an rtems-littlevgl app on BBB, I found that > > the device > > >> tree generated from the freebsd source matching the freebsd-org > > >> HEAD commit doesn't work with the app and framebuffer > device fails > > >> to open. This is most likely due to the changes in the > freebsd dts > > >> sources because of which the overlay isn't working as expected. > > > > > > If I remember correctly, SD card doesn't work either with a FDT > > that is > > > too new. > > > > > >> > > >> I haven't had a detailed look at what's missing and the > u-boot isn't > > >> reporting any error in applying the overlay either. I checked > > that the > > >> device tree built from freebsd tree matching the > following commit > > >> works: > > >> 19a6ceb89dbacf74697d493e48c388767126d418 > > > > > > At the moment that's the right one. But that can change if > someone > > > updates libbsd again. > > > > And I have to correct myself: That is not the right one. The > current > > libbsd HEAD should work with > 6b0307a0a5184339393f555d5d424190d8a8277a. > > > > I meant to say that the framebuffer doesn't work with the current HEAD > > (6b0307). > > I checked with a previous commit, which is 19a6ce and found it > working. > > I should have been clear in the problem statement, sorry about that. > > Thats not good. But the correct way would be to find out what's wrong > and fix it. Did they add a fix in a future FreeBSD version? > > Most likely the overlay isn't working as expected. I'll have to have a > detailed > look to figure out what's going on there. > > > > > > > > >> > > >> This brings up two questions: > > >> 1. Should we add the commit hash in the user manual so that the > > user can > > >> build > > >> from source matching that commits instead of HEAD. This > can be a > > >> problem > > >> as other codes ported from freebsd might break if the > device tree > > >> doesn't > > >> match the HEAD commit of freebsd-org > > > > > > Adding a fixed commit id isn't really a good idea either. It > is nearly > > > guaranteed that no one updates it if libbsd is updated. It > would be > > > better to add instructions how to find out which commit > should be > > used. > > > > The command would be: > > > > git ls-files -s freebsd-org > > > > It works regardless whether the sub-module is initialized or not. > > > > > > > >> > > >> 2. How do we manage the device tree overlays required by > RTEMS or > > libbsd? > > >> I guess only BBB uses an overlay currently. Can we add > a BSD > > license to > > >> the overlay and add it somewhere in rtems or rtems-libbsd > > repository and > > >> maintain it? > > > > > > I think you wrote the overlay so you can add any license you > want. But > > > I'm really not sure where to put it. We currently don't have a > > location > > > for that. Do you have a good suggestion? > > > > > > > How about rtemsbsd/sys/dts/arm/overlays ? > > Following the freebsd tree freebsd/sys/dts/arm/overlays/ > > Following the FreeBSD tree is a good point. But would they be visible > there? Beneath that: We currently don't have support for building the > overlays. Do you have an idea how that could look like? > > keeping it visible will be a problem. For building the overlay, we can > use dtc > and add a script to build the overlay. I see that rsb has a build > package for > devel/dtc.bset as well.
Hm. Optimal would be an integration into waf. Something like "waf fdt-overlay". Even better would be if we could build the original fdt too. But I'm sure that both would be quite a bit tricky to integrate (the waf scripts in libbsd are not really easy to understand). So I'm not insisting on that. > > Best regards > > Christian > > > > > > Best regards > > > > > > Christian > > > > > >> > > >> Best regards, > > >> Vijay> > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> devel mailing list > > >> devel@rtems.org <mailto:devel@rtems.org> > <mailto:devel@rtems.org <mailto:devel@rtems.org>> > > >> http://lists.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > > >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > devel@rtems.org > http://lists.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > -- -------------------------------------------- embedded brains GmbH Herr Christian Mauderer Dornierstr. 4 D-82178 Puchheim Germany email: christian.maude...@embedded-brains.de Phone: +49-89-18 94 741 - 18 Fax: +49-89-18 94 741 - 08 PGP: Public key available on request. Diese Nachricht ist keine geschäftliche Mitteilung im Sinne des EHUG. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@rtems.org http://lists.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
