Booting a J7 EVM without meta-arago

Booting a J7 EVM without meta-arago

[Martin Kelly]

Hi,

I'm trying to get a basic image running on the J7 EVM using only meta-ti 
without meta-arago, as I want to use this board but don't need most of 
the TI SDK support.

I'm using the j7-evm MACHINE type, and I get a successful build but no 
u-boot output. In contrast, I get fine output with an SDK built with 
meta-arago. If I copy the boot partition from the SDK, I can get u-boot 
output.

I then noticed the following comment in k3.inc:

# Please note that booting K3 platform also requires
# tiboot3.bin and sysfw.itb, which are provided by meta-arago
# u-boot-k3-r5 and ti-sci-fw recipes
IMAGE_BOOT_FILES ?= "${SPL_BINARY} u-boot.${UBOOT_SUFFIX}"
WKS_FILE ?= "sdimage-bootpart.wks"
do_image_wic[depends] += "u-boot:do_deploy"

Does this mean it's not actually possible to successfully boot a system 
without pulling in meta-arago and all its many dependencies? Is there a 
chance we could port these recipes into meta-ti, or will I always have 
to use meta-arago?

Thanks,
Martin

Re: Booting a J7 EVM without meta-arago

[Martin Kelly]

On 3/6/20 11:16 AM, Martin Kelly wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to get a basic image running on the J7 EVM using only meta-ti 
> without meta-arago, as I want to use this board but don't need most of 
> the TI SDK support.
> 
> I'm using the j7-evm MACHINE type, and I get a successful build but no 
> u-boot output. In contrast, I get fine output with an SDK built with 
> meta-arago. If I copy the boot partition from the SDK, I can get u-boot 
> output.
> 
> I then noticed the following comment in k3.inc:
> 
> # Please note that booting K3 platform also requires
> # tiboot3.bin and sysfw.itb, which are provided by meta-arago
> # u-boot-k3-r5 and ti-sci-fw recipes
> IMAGE_BOOT_FILES ?= "${SPL_BINARY} u-boot.${UBOOT_SUFFIX}"
> WKS_FILE ?= "sdimage-bootpart.wks"
> do_image_wic[depends] += "u-boot:do_deploy"
> 
> Does this mean it's not actually possible to successfully boot a system 
> without pulling in meta-arago and all its many dependencies? Is there a 
> chance we could port these recipes into meta-ti, or will I always have 
> to use meta-arago?
> 
> Thanks,
> Martin

Adding meta-arago to the CC list.

Re: Booting a J7 EVM without meta-arago

[Martin Kelly]

On 3/6/20 11:16 AM, Martin Kelly wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to get a basic image running on the J7 EVM using only meta-ti 
> without meta-arago, as I want to use this board but don't need most of 
> the TI SDK support.
> 
> I'm using the j7-evm MACHINE type, and I get a successful build but no 
> u-boot output. In contrast, I get fine output with an SDK built with 
> meta-arago. If I copy the boot partition from the SDK, I can get u-boot 
> output.
> 
> I then noticed the following comment in k3.inc:
> 
> # Please note that booting K3 platform also requires
> # tiboot3.bin and sysfw.itb, which are provided by meta-arago
> # u-boot-k3-r5 and ti-sci-fw recipes
> IMAGE_BOOT_FILES ?= "${SPL_BINARY} u-boot.${UBOOT_SUFFIX}"
> WKS_FILE ?= "sdimage-bootpart.wks"
> do_image_wic[depends] += "u-boot:do_deploy"
> 
> Does this mean it's not actually possible to successfully boot a system 
> without pulling in meta-arago and all its many dependencies? Is there a 
> chance we could port these recipes into meta-ti, or will I always have 
> to use meta-arago?
> 
> Thanks,
> Martin

Adding meta-arago to the CC list.

Re: Booting a J7 EVM without meta-arago

[Martin Kelly]

On 3/9/20 11:10 AM, Martin Kelly wrote:
> On 3/6/20 11:16 AM, Martin Kelly wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to get a basic image running on the J7 EVM using only 
>> meta-ti without meta-arago, as I want to use this board but don't need 
>> most of the TI SDK support.
>>
>> I'm using the j7-evm MACHINE type, and I get a successful build but no 
>> u-boot output. In contrast, I get fine output with an SDK built with 
>> meta-arago. If I copy the boot partition from the SDK, I can get 
>> u-boot output.
>>
>> I then noticed the following comment in k3.inc:
>>
>> # Please note that booting K3 platform also requires
>> # tiboot3.bin and sysfw.itb, which are provided by meta-arago
>> # u-boot-k3-r5 and ti-sci-fw recipes
>> IMAGE_BOOT_FILES ?= "${SPL_BINARY} u-boot.${UBOOT_SUFFIX}"
>> WKS_FILE ?= "sdimage-bootpart.wks"
>> do_image_wic[depends] += "u-boot:do_deploy"
>>
>> Does this mean it's not actually possible to successfully boot a 
>> system without pulling in meta-arago and all its many dependencies? Is 
>> there a chance we could port these recipes into meta-ti, or will I 
>> always have to use meta-arago?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Martin
> 
> Adding meta-arago to the CC list.

(ping)

Re: Booting a J7 EVM without meta-arago

[Martin Kelly]

On 3/9/20 11:10 AM, Martin Kelly wrote:
> On 3/6/20 11:16 AM, Martin Kelly wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to get a basic image running on the J7 EVM using only 
>> meta-ti without meta-arago, as I want to use this board but don't need 
>> most of the TI SDK support.
>>
>> I'm using the j7-evm MACHINE type, and I get a successful build but no 
>> u-boot output. In contrast, I get fine output with an SDK built with 
>> meta-arago. If I copy the boot partition from the SDK, I can get 
>> u-boot output.
>>
>> I then noticed the following comment in k3.inc:
>>
>> # Please note that booting K3 platform also requires
>> # tiboot3.bin and sysfw.itb, which are provided by meta-arago
>> # u-boot-k3-r5 and ti-sci-fw recipes
>> IMAGE_BOOT_FILES ?= "${SPL_BINARY} u-boot.${UBOOT_SUFFIX}"
>> WKS_FILE ?= "sdimage-bootpart.wks"
>> do_image_wic[depends] += "u-boot:do_deploy"
>>
>> Does this mean it's not actually possible to successfully boot a 
>> system without pulling in meta-arago and all its many dependencies? Is 
>> there a chance we could port these recipes into meta-ti, or will I 
>> always have to use meta-arago?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Martin
> 
> Adding meta-arago to the CC list.

(ping)