Not Fixing em28xx on Beaglebone

fixing em28xx on Beaglebone

ATTENTION - Method below almost worked, but didn't.

Horizontal pink and green bars across the image... but at least there was an image. That's better than a green screen, isn't it?

I really liked the Beaglebone. I really wanted it to work. The easycap driver sort of worked, but wasn't stable enough to leave in a field. (although it seems ok at 320x240). The stk1160 driver experiences similar break up to the images I've seen of it running on the raspberry pi. (if you are reading this - I know you're working on the latter!).

It looks like the full Beagleboard xM might be the next contender. More money than I'd hoped to spend, and more power, but 1-wire and rtc and already on the board.

Having another go...

from my ubuntu 12.04 beaglebone;

using http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu as a guide

did this http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu#Install_Latest_Kernel_Image

export DIST=oneiric  (options are lucid/maverick/natty/oneiric/precise/squeeze/wheezy)
export ARCH=armel (options are armel/armhf (armhf only for precise))

Beagle/Panda
export BOARD=omap

BeagleBone
export BOARD=omap-psp

wget http://rcn-ee.net/deb/${DIST}-${ARCH}/LATEST-${BOARD}
wget $(cat ./LATEST-${BOARD} | grep STABLE | awk '{print $3}')
/bin/bash install-me.sh

reboot!

naturally it blew away my 1307rtc, (remember http://bufobufomagic.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/1-wire-and-blinking-leds.html) so...


got the headers from http://rcn-ee.net/deb/precise-armhf/v3.2.32-psp25/

wget http://rcn-ee.net/deb/precise-armhf/v3.2.32-psp25/linux-headers-3.2.32-psp25_1.0precise_armhf.deb

installed the headers

dpkg -i linux*2.6.38-7.37*.deb

cd /usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.32-psp25/

Get source

cd /home/stuff
wget http://rcn-ee.net/deb/precise-armhf/v3.2.32-psp25/patch-3.2-psp25.diff.gz

wget http://rcn-ee.net/deb/precise-armhf/v3.2.32-psp25/defconfig

wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/linux-3.2.tar.bz2

tar xjf linux-3.2.tar.bz2 

cd linux-3.2

zcat /home/stuff/patch-3.2.32-psp25.diff.gz | patch -p1

cp /home/stuff/defconfig .config

change build symlink!

restore the 1307

nano arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-am335xevm.c

Add to the existing static struct i2c_board_info __initdata cape_i2c_boardinfo

{

                I2C_BOARD_INFO("ds1307", 0x68),

},

Config changes/checks; (looks ok as it is?)

 CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS=y
CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS_DEVICE="rtc0"
remove support for the OMAP RTC driver
I2C RTC drivers
CONFIG_RTC_DRV_DS1307=y

try patching em28xx while we're here...

make a new kernel