Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack Debian

This page is about running the armhf port of Debian distribution at BeagleBoard. The latest release beagleboard.org image can be found at: http://beagleboard.org/latest-images

= Checking The Debian Image Version =

You should check the version of the image on the microSD/eMMC by opening the ID.txt file in the FAT partition.

root@beaglebone:~# cat /etc/dogtag BeagleBoard.org BeagleBone Debian Image 2014-03-19

This file can also be accessed via a PC (Windows/Mac/Linux) via either mounting the FAT partition directly off the microSD card or via the usb interface (flash drive).

= Installing =

Oracle Java 8
Information: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html

Install: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

Verify: debian@beaglebone:~$ java -version java version "1.8.0_60" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_60-b27) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 25.60-b23, mixed mode)

TI PRU Code Generation Tools
http://software-dl.ti.com/codegen/non-esd/downloads/download.htm#PRU

Install: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ti-pru-cgt-installer

Older rootfs (when above package doesn't exist): wget http://downloads.ti.com/codegen/esd/cgt_public_sw/PRU/2.1.1/ti_cgt_pru_2.1.1_armlinuxa8hf_busybox_installer.sh chmod +x ti_cgt_pru_2.1.1_armlinuxa8hf_busybox_installer.sh sudo ./ti_cgt_pru_2.1.1_armlinuxa8hf_busybox_installer.sh

= FAQ =

Expanding File System Partition On A microSD
By default the microSD image is only about 2GB in size, to fully expand the partition to the full size of your microSD card simple run.

cd /opt/scripts/tools/ git pull sudo ./grow_partition.sh sudo reboot

On the next reboot, [df -h] should show the full microSD card size.

Flashing eMMC
To setup the standalone microSD image to automatically flash the eMMC on powerup.

In /boot/uEnv.txt:
 * 1) enable BBB: eMMC Flasher:
 * 2) cmdline=init=/opt/scripts/tools/eMMC/init-eMMC-flasher-v3.sh

Change to: cmdline=init=/opt/scripts/tools/eMMC/init-eMMC-flasher-v3.sh
 * 1) enable BBB: eMMC Flasher:

and reboot the system, it'll flash the eMMC on the next bootup. (make sure to remove the microSD after flashing is complete)

Kernel Upgrade
We can't ship support for everything on release day, so we push out new kernels as fixes, support for new capes, etc are posted on the beagleboard.org mainline list.

cd /opt/scripts/tools/ git pull sudo ./update_kernel.sh sudo reboot

Installing kernel headers
If you want to build a kernel module natively, you'll need to install the correct kernel headers.

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`

In a Makefile, perform:

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(shell uname -r)

Loading custom capes
Due to limitations in debian wheezy's userspace, the use of an initramfs, and having firmware builtin to the kernel. It is currently not possible to load "custom" capes via: capemgr.enable_partno=xyz. Instead an init script has been setup to load the cape/capes as soon as possible.

Built-in Cape: capemgr.enable_partno=BB-SPIDEV1 slot #7: Requesting part number/version based 'BB-SPIDEV1-00A0.dtbo slot #7: Requesting firmware 'BB-SPIDEV1-00A0.dtbo' for board-name 'Override Board Name', version '00A0' slot #7: dtbo 'BB-SPIDEV1-00A0.dtbo' loaded; converting to live tree

Custom External Cape: capemgr.enable_partno=BB-SPI1-01 slot #7: Requesting part number/version based 'BB-SPI1-01-00A0.dtbo slot #7: Requesting firmware 'BB-SPI1-01-00A0.dtbo' for board-name 'Override Board Name', version '00A0' failed to load firmware 'BB-SPI1-01-00A0.dtbo' loader: failed to load slot-7 BB-SPI1-01:00A0 (prio 0)

Workaround: add "CAPE=BB-SPI1-01" to /etc/default/capemgr

Privileged echo
As a normal user, you can not "sudo echo 'something' >> /etc/privilegedfile"

sudo sh -c "echo 'something' >> /etc/privilegedfile"

Timezone
By default this image is setup to display time in utc mode. If you would like to change this to your local region.

dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

or: echo "Europe/Zurich" > /etc/timezone dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive tzdata

Jessie Timezone
List of available timezones: timedatectl list-timezones

Set timezone: sudo timedatectl set-timezone America/North_Dakota/Center

W: GPG error: http://debian.beagleboard.org wheezy-bbb
W: GPG error: http://debian.beagleboard.org wheezy-bbb Release: The following signatures were invalid: KEYEXPIRED 1418840246 KEYEXPIRED 1418840304 KEYEXPIRED 1418840246 KEYEXPIRED 1418840246 KEYEXPIRED 1418840304

Note this directions are version dependent, so double check your version:

debian@beaglebone:~$ cat /etc/dogtag BeagleBoard.org BeagleBone Debian Image 2014-05-14

2014-05-14 GPG error: Disable: http://debian.beagleboard.org repo:
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Change: deb [arch=armhf] http://debian.beagleboard.org/packages wheezy-bbb main
 * 1) deb-src [arch=armhf] http://debian.beagleboard.org/packages wheezy-bbb main

To:
 * 1) deb [arch=armhf] http://debian.beagleboard.org/packages wheezy-bbb main
 * 2) deb-src [arch=armhf] http://debian.beagleboard.org/packages wheezy-bbb main

sudo apt-get update

2014-05-14 GPG error: Optional enable: http://repos.rcn-ee.com/
Download archive-keyring: wget https://rcn-ee.com/repos/debian/pool/main/r/rcn-ee-archive-keyring/rcn-ee-archive-keyring_2015.10.22~bpo70+20151022+1_all.deb sudo dpkg -i rcn-ee-archive-keyring_2015.10.22~bpo70+20151022+1_all.deb

Add repo to /etc/apt/sources.list sudo sh -c "echo 'deb [arch=armhf] http://repos.rcn-ee.com/debian wheezy main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list" sudo sh -c "echo '#deb-src [arch=armhf] http://repos.rcn-ee.com/debian wheezy main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list"

Update packages: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install npm c9-core-installer --reinstall

= Debian Build Instructions =

You'll want a fairly beefy ARM system to run this script.

git clone git://github.com/beagleboard/image-builder.git cd image-builder ./beagleboard.org_image.sh

Output of the autobuilder can be found at http://builds.beagleboard.org.

= Debian Releases = http://beagleboard.org/latest-images

2015-11-03 Release Notes
* Windows 10 Signed Drivers! * BeagleBone Green * U-Boot: v2015.10 ** U-Boot UMS (USB Mass Storage) enabled [ums 0 mmc 1] * Kernel: 3.8.13-bone79

BBB Rev C/BBG (4GB eMMC)
Flasher: (lxde-4gb) wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/release/2015-11-03/lxde-4gb/BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.9-lxde-4gb-armhf-2015-11-03-4gb.img.xz sha256sum: 4984e0d51cfaf408db83904a8c57acb6b3d0522c0b924a3b2e8a4af48cc1034b

BBB/BBG (All Revs) eMMC Flashers
Flasher: (lxde) wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/release/2015-11-03/lxde/BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.9-lxde-armhf-2015-11-03-2gb.img.xz sha256sum: a2b847cb23aec849656e853056db1a7f1ab58b869de7a6b712362b0e99314bad

Flasher: (console) wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/release/2015-11-03/console/BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.9-console-armhf-2015-11-03-2gb.img.xz sha256sum: ebdd2938253e179a36a1b9b1f1def2a04595f9e0ee94776988c490ea317e97bc

BBW/BBB/BBG (All Revs)
microSD/Standalone: (lxde) wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/release/2015-11-03/lxde-4gb/bone-debian-7.9-lxde-4gb-armhf-2015-11-03-4gb.img.xz sha256sum: 0f27fb05bca2c64e89abc20f54e35bef7fbdbd391ec38c2ea9d56c6356be5fab

microSD/Standalone: (console) wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/release/2015-11-03/console/bone-debian-7.9-console-armhf-2015-11-03-2gb.img.xz sha256sum: 63e78f417db62737804877c056c4632173d2b970eed1cf1c59b2b99e9752ef0e

BeagleBoard-X15 weekly
Bug tracker: http://bugs.elinux.org/projects/beagleboard-x15

Flasher: (lxqt-4gb) (BeagleBoard-X15) wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2015-12-20/lxqt-4gb/bbx15-eMMC-flasher-debian-8.2-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2015-12-20-4gb.img.xz sha256sum: 6eb6f0bd2b6f9a34c48112a79b9d3992a1c0df5a6e3e3a4516431878968b3c33

microSD/Standalone: (lxqt-4gb) (BeagleBoard-X15) wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2015-12-20/lxqt-4gb/bbx15-debian-8.2-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2015-12-20-4gb.img.xz sha256sum: 1d3234dc11a2b9e1c4eff491ba2c257c9bfe494c22b0cbac4b2e21e5789cc8ad

= Debian Image Testing Snapshots =

BBW/BBB (All Revs) Machinekit
microSD/Standalone: (machinekit) wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2015-12-20/machinekit/bone-debian-7.9-machinekit-armhf-2015-12-20-4gb.img.xz sha256sum: 0fb8171aa2450932fe2540a572c09538019cde32f7a449c3885ef5ab3a4aa2a3

Jessie Snapshot lxqt
2015-12-20 notes * U-Boot: v2015.10 * Kernel: 4.1.13-ti-r36

Flasher: (lxqt-4gb) (BeagleBone Black/Green 4GB eMMC) wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2015-12-20/lxqt-4gb/BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-8.2-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2015-12-20-4gb.img.xz sha256sum: c92d8002d84cbb6ad4dc84b9645e75e104b8c9a455fd4a2550a99d4b5658a187

Flasher: (lxqt-2gb) (BeagleBone Black 2GB eMMC) wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2015-12-20/lxqt-2gb/BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-8.2-lxqt-2gb-armhf-2015-12-20-2gb.img.xz sha256sum: 8dbf2b8b033faf0ef0cc73f2a47a1fc91ebe226d334a192026251bfdf12e62d3

microSD/Standalone: (lxqt-4gb) (BeagleBone/BeagleBone Black/BeagleBone Green) wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2015-12-20/lxqt-4gb/bone-debian-8.2-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2015-12-20-4gb.img.xz sha256sum: eb4b7f4d25cf509ad8106eab88829762103e6f4fec437b1583e4fac01ef97c57

Flasher: (lxqt-4gb) (BeagleBoard-X15) wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2015-12-20/lxqt-4gb/bbx15-eMMC-flasher-debian-8.2-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2015-12-20-4gb.img.xz sha256sum: 6eb6f0bd2b6f9a34c48112a79b9d3992a1c0df5a6e3e3a4516431878968b3c33

microSD/Standalone: (lxqt-4gb) (BeagleBoard-X15) wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2015-12-20/lxqt-4gb/bbx15-debian-8.2-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2015-12-20-4gb.img.xz sha256sum: 1d3234dc11a2b9e1c4eff491ba2c257c9bfe494c22b0cbac4b2e21e5789cc8ad

microSD/Standalone: (lxqt-4gb) (omap5-uevm) wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2015-12-20/lxqt-4gb/omap5-uevm-debian-8.2-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2015-12-20-4gb.img.xz sha256sum: 032a55d646555f7c9cbcc27911b90147df96206926fdbbd28fe5b190530b08e8

microSD/Standalone: (lxqt-4gb) (tre) wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2015-12-20/lxqt-4gb/tre-debian-8.2-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2015-12-20-4gb.img.xz sha256sum: d8662cff7cede8f117795497d8112492754eb236fa0cecf4fdfc24d5d7613961

Jessie Snapshot console
Flasher: (console) (BeagleBone Black/Green eMMC) wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2015-12-20/console/BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-8.2-console-armhf-2015-12-20-2gb.img.xz sha256sum: ab2b41e272d84c918645b2eab6d844f1fc0316e096f31b68396914ae3046964e

microSD/Standalone: (console) (BeagleBone/BeagleBone Black/BeagleBone Green) wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2015-12-20/console/bone-debian-8.2-console-armhf-2015-12-20-2gb.img.xz sha256sum: 20e1ce24bb9ec8afc3952b083e9b2e9d3bf0211b7eddcdbecf6fd171df1ae856

Flasher: (console) (BeagleBoard-X15) wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2015-12-20/console/bbx15-eMMC-flasher-debian-8.2-console-armhf-2015-12-20-4gb.img.xz sha256sum: ac5ca51a360f9976efaa00cb9e028ede6bba016aa4970c9a4fe2af69cf5740cc

microSD/Standalone: (console) (BeagleBoard-X15) wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2015-12-20/console/bbx15-debian-8.2-console-armhf-2015-12-20-2gb.img.xz sha256sum: 565d2ebd6d85eee2cdd06e13bab19b839ee8c2a86aac5cd54de3e44d69e6a616

microSD/Standalone: (console) (omap5-uevm) wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2015-12-20/console/omap5-uevm-debian-8.2-console-armhf-2015-12-20-2gb.img.xz sha256sum: 83f0d922cda37bbe0c99182ae8908e7957888056eca1cef7bed5322a82c48d8f

= Kernel Options =

General apt syntax for searching and installing a specific kernel: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-cache search linux-image | grep sudo apt-get install linux-image- sudo reboot

Latest kernel script cd /opt/scripts/tools/ git pull sudo ./update_kernel.sh 

3.8.x
This is the first beagleboard.org long term kernel tree with capemanager support, it's been the default install for Debian Wheezy beagleboard.org patchset: https://github.com/beagleboard/linux/tree/3.8

3.8.x BeagleBone/BeagleBone Black FULL Cape Support --bone-channel --stable

3.8.x BeagleBone/BeagleBone Black FULL Cape Support + Xenomai --bone-xenomai-channel --stable

4.1.x-ti
This is slated to replace the v3.8.x tree in Debian Jessie, cape manager support is enabled. beagleboard.org patchset: https://github.com/beagleboard/linux/tree/4.1 Based on: http://git.ti.com/gitweb/?p=ti-linux-kernel/ti-linux-kernel.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/ti-linux-4.1.y

4.1.x-ti BeagleBone/BeagleBone Black/BeagleBoard-X15 --ti-channel --stable

4.1.x-ti BeagleBone/BeagleBone Black/BeagleBoard-X15 + RT --ti-rt-channel --stable

Mainline (lts)
4.1.x BeagleBone/BeagleBone Black --bone-kernel --lts

4.1.x BeagleBone/BeagleBone Black + RT --bone-rt-kernel --lts

Mainline
4.3.x BeagleBone/BeagleBone Black --bone-kernel --testing

Debian 8: jessie
sudo apt-get install linux-image-armmp