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Re: flash-kernel and dtbs



On 2017-11-30, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> many thanks for you excellent suggestions, they helped me a lot.

Glad it worked!


> Am Dienstag, 28. November 2017, 13:12:42 schrieb Vagrant Cascadian:
> [...]
>> 
>> When the user installs them.  Install u-boot-imx and see
>> /usr/share/doc/u-boot-imx/README.Debian* for instructions on how to
>> install u-boot manually.
>
> That worked, but I had to install it to /dev/mmcblk1 (not mmcblk0)

Of course, the device numbering that linux detects may vary from one
boot to the next...


> The dtb has 4 spi entries
>
>                 ecspi@02008000 {
>                     #address-cells = <0x00000001>;
...
>                     status = "disabled";
>                 };

> Is that sufficient for enabling the spi interfaces on the 26 pin interface?
>
> I do not see a /dev/spidev* even after loading spi_imx, which also does not 
> produce any entry in syslog. Do you have any clue why the the spi devices do 
> not show up?

The 'status = "disabled"' entries in your device-tree suggest it is not
yet supported on that hardware with the kernel version you're running.


live well,
  vagrant

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