BeagleBoardDebian

This page is about running a (ARM EABI) Debian distribution at BeagleBoard. BeagleBoard will boot the (ARM EABI) Debian distribution from SD card. Debian's NetInstall will be used to install Debian onto your Beagle.

Note: Debian armel deb's are compiled for armv4t, this allows debian to support a larger number of arm devices with a single port, at only the sacrifice of speed.


 * armhf
 * Port Details: http://wiki.debian.org/ArmHardFloatPort
 * Status: http://wiki.debian.org/ArmHardFloatTodo

= Help =

If you need any help:


 * Kernel related help:
 * Email Beagleboard user group *Recommended method
 * #beagle: Beagle irc on freenode, accessible also by web interface (logs)
 * Kernel Tree's
 * Stable (3.7.x) branch
 * Development Kernel source code


 * When asking for help, please provide some debugging information:
 * U-Boot Version installed on board
 * Kernel Version: uname -a
 * pastebin dmesg
 * Copy from serial port or use "dmesg | pastebinit" (sudo apt-get install pastebinit)

= Recommended Beagle Software =

Mainline U-Boot:
 * All old Ax, Bx, Cx and Dx boards are required to upgrade to at least these U-Boot versions.
 * XM Boards have no NAND, so MLO/u-boot.img is always required on the first partition
 * Directions: Upgrade X-loader and U-Boot

= Debian NetInstall =

You will need a 1GB SD card or greater. Standard System : ~455MB + Desktop environment (GNOME) : ~2.9GB

Debian Squeeze
git clone git://github.com/RobertCNelson/netinstall.git cd netinstall

Quick Install script for "board" sudo ./mk_mmc.sh --mmc /dev/sdX --uboot "board" --distro squeeze

"board" Options:
 * BeagleBoard Ax/Bx - beagle_bx
 * BeagleBoard Cx   - beagle_cx
 * BeagleBoard xMA/B/C   - beagle_xm
 * BeagleBone Ax   - bone
 * PandaBoard Ax - panda
 * PandaBoard ES - panda_es

So For the BeagleBoard xM: sudo ./mk_mmc.sh --mmc /dev/sdX --uboot beagle_xm --distro squeeze


 * Options:
 * --uboot : beagle, panda, bone
 * --distro : squeeze
 * --firmware : installs firmware
 * --serial-mode : debian-installer uses Serial Port

NOTE: There is a bug in the USB Keyboard mapping, the debian-installer will initially fail, if and when the error occurs switch to the option "kernel keymap" and continue installing..

Beagleboard: NetInstall
Choose a language C - No localization English - English

Configure the network: usb0: USB net <- (usually the OTG port, but could also be the smsc95xx adapter on the beagle and panda) usb1: USB net <- (usually the smsc95xx adapter on the beagle and panda, when usb0 exist) eth0: Ethernet <- Your usb-ethernet device wlan0: Wifi <- Your usb-wifi device.. See BeagleBoardDebianWifiInstallInfo for my hack to set it up.

usb0 howto
There's a lot of question on irc about this, it might make sense to add a wiki page going thru with linux/winxp etc.. --RobertCNelson 00:55, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Configuring usb0 network bridge for 2.6.29: While you chose your keyboard layout, setup a bridge with ethX and usbX. # ifconfig ethX 0.0.0.0 # ifconfig usbX 0.0.0.0 # brctl addbr brX # brctl addif brX ethX # brctl addif brX usbX # ifconfig brX up  # dhclient brX *Sometimes the first beagle DHCP will fail(probably due PC trying autoconnect), just run the auto configuration again and it will configure it right.

Continue the install without loading kernel modules? :

Partition disks: This partitioner doesn't have the inform.....? :  Logical Volume Manager not available: 

Partition disks: Guided - Use the largest continuous free space

Partitioning scheme....

Example: MMC/SD card #1 (mmcblk0) - 2.0 GB Unknown > #1 primary  57.5 MB     fat32 > #2 primary   1.8 GB B f ext3  / > #5 logical 148.0 MB   f swap  swap Finish partitioning and write changes to disk Write the changes to disk? :

No installable kernel was found in the defined APT sources? :  Continue without installing a kernel? :

Standard System

No BootLoader: 

Beagleboard: Install Latest Kernel
Script File:

Lenny: wget http://rcn-ee.net/deb/lenny/v2.6.39.3-old3/install-me.sh sudo /bin/bash install-me.sh Squeeze: export DIST=squeeze export ARCH=armel 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 with your new Kernel

= Demo Image =

Debian Wheezy snapshot
Default username/password:
 * username: debian
 * password: temppwd

Default root user/password
 * user: root
 * password: root

Image Updated:
 * 2013-01-12
 * Beagle/Panda/Panda ES: v3.7.2-x6
 * Bone: v3.2.33-psp26 kernel (next release should be v3.7.x based)
 * 2012-11-29
 * Beagle/Panda ES: v3.6.8-x4 kernel
 * Panda: v3.2.34-x15 kernel (kernel bug, crashes with v3.6.x after a few hours)
 * Bone: v3.2.33-psp26 kernel (next release should be v3.7.x based)
 * October 19th
 * Beagle/Panda ES: v3.6.2-x3 kernel
 * Panda: v3.2.32-x15 kernel (kernel bug, crashes with v3.6.x after a few hours)
 * Bone: v3.2.32-psp25 kernel
 * September 27th
 * Beagle/Panda: v3.2.30-x14 kernel
 * Bone: v3.2.30-psp23 kernel
 * September 10th
 * Beagle/Panda: v3.2.28-x14 kernel
 * Bone: v3.2.28-psp21 kernel (not with "backlight" support for CircuitCo LCD3)
 * July 29th: 2012-07-29
 * Beagle/Panda: v3.2.24-x14 kernel
 * Bone: v3.2.23-psp18 kernel
 * July 16th: 2012-07-16
 * Beagle/Panda: v3.2.23-x14 kernel
 * Bone: v3.2.21-psp16 kernel

Services Active: Note: Depending on your internal network these may work out the box Apache, Port 80: http://arm/ SSH, Port 22: ssh ubuntu@arm Getty, Serial Port

Get prebuilt image:

wget http://rcn-ee.net/deb/rootfs/wheezy/debian-wheezy-minimal-armhf-2013-01-12.tar.xz mirrors (will take some time to update): wget http://ynezz.ibawizard.net/beagleboard/wheezy/debian-wheezy-minimal-armhf-2013-01-12.tar.xz

Verify Image with: md5sum debian-wheezy-minimal-armhf-2013-01-12.tar.xz 98ce2ea5af2ab6aecfcc5d3aa9026a84 debian-wheezy-minimal-armhf-2013-01-12.tar.xz

Unpack Image: tar xJf debian-wheezy-minimal-armhf-2013-01-12.tar.xz cd debian-wheezy-minimal-armhf-2013-01-12

Install Image:

Quick Install script for "board" sudo ./setup_sdcard.sh --mmc /dev/sdX --uboot "board"

"board" options:
 * BeagleBoard Ax/Bx - beagle_bx
 * BeagleBoard Cx/Dx - beagle_cx
 * BeagleBoard xM   - beagle_xm
 * BeagleBone Ax    - bone
 * PandaBoard Ax    - panda
 * PandaBoard ES    - panda_es

So For the BeagleBoard xM: sudo ./setup_sdcard.sh --mmc /dev/sdX --uboot beagle_xm


 * Additional Options
 * --rootfs
 * --swap_file 
 * --addon pico
 * --svideo-ntsc <use ntsc over dvi for video)
 * --svideo-pal <use pal over dvi for video)

= Debian Configuration =

Serial Ports
Lenny

edit /etc/inittab and add: S:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 115200 ttyS2

For root access over the serial port add ttyS2 to /etc/securetty

Squeeze

edit /etc/inittab and add: S:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 115200 ttyO2

WiFi
See BeagleBoard Debian WiFi install info.

SGX armel/armhf v3.4.x+

 * Note: This is a still a work in progress, but so far all the basic sgx demos seem to work on my Beagle xM C... Thanks to TI for the special armhf binaries!!! --RobertCNelson 19:48, 17 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Test with: Precise/12.04 armhf demo image with v3.4.5-x1, desktop was lxde via: "sudo apt-get install lxde lxde-core lxde-icon-theme"

Re-Build Kernel and SGX Kernel Modules
git clone git://github.com/RobertCNelson/stable-kernel.git cd stable-kernel git checkout origin/v3.6.x -b v3.6.x ./build_kernel.sh (and then follow the directions as the script runs...)

Build kernel ./build_kernel.sh

Build SGX modules ./sgx_build_modules.sh

Insert SD card, make sure to modify MMC in system.sh ./tools/install_image.sh

Place SD card into the device and boot... cd /opt/sgx sudo tar xf GFX_4.0*_libs.tar.gz sudo ./install-sgx.sh

Reboot, check modules (lsmod): Module                 Size  Used by bufferclass_ti          5727  0 omaplfb               11512  0 pvrsrvkm             165208  2 bufferclass_ti,omaplfb

Blit Test: ubuntu@omap:/usr/bin/armhf/es5.0$ ./sgx_blit_test -- SGX 3D Blit test - --- Start --- Call PVRSRVConnect with a valid argument: OK Get number of devices from PVRSRVEnumerateDevices: OK .... Reported 1 devices .... Device Number | Device Type 0000   | PVRSRV_DEVICE_ID_SGX Attempt to acquire device 0: OK Getting SGX Client info OK .... ui32ProcessID:1133 Display Class API: enumerate devices OK PVRSRVEnumerateDeviceClass returns 1 display device(s) OK Display Class API: open device OK Display Class API: Get display info OK .... Name:PowerVR OMAP Linux Display Driver .... MaxSwapChains:1 .... MaxSwapChainBuffers:1 .... MinSwapInterval:0 .... MaxSwapInterval:1 Display Class API: enumerate display formats OK OK .... Display format 0 - Pixelformat:1 Display Class API: enumerate display dimensions OK OK .... Display dimensions 0 - ByteStride:2560 Width:1280 Height:720 Attempt to create memory context for SGX: OK .... Shared heap 0 - HeapID:0x7000000 DevVAddr:0x1000 Size:0x87fe000 Attr:0x2014200 .... Shared heap 1 - HeapID:0x7000001 DevVAddr:0xc800000 Size:0xfff000 Attr:0x2024200 .... Shared heap 2 - HeapID:0x7000002 DevVAddr:0xe400000 Size:0x7f000 Attr:0x2024200 .... Shared heap 3 - HeapID:0x7000003 DevVAddr:0xf000000 Size:0x3ff000 Attr:0x2024200 .... Shared heap 4 - HeapID:0x7000004 DevVAddr:0xf400000 Size:0x4ff000 Attr:0x2014200 .... Shared heap 5 - HeapID:0x7000005 DevVAddr:0xfc00000 Size:0x1ff000 Attr:0x2014200 .... Shared heap 6 - HeapID:0x7000006 DevVAddr:0xdc00000 Size:0x7ff000 Attr:0x2014200 .... Shared heap 7 - HeapID:0x7000007 DevVAddr:0xe800000 Size:0x7ff000 Attr:0x2014200 .... Shared heap 8 - HeapID:0x7000008 DevVAddr:0xd800000 Size:0x3ff000 Attr:0x2024200 .... Shared heap 9 - HeapID:0x7000009 DevVAddr:0x8800000 Size:0x0 Attr:0x2024200 .... Shared heap 10 - HeapID:0x700000a DevVAddr:0x8800000 Size:0x3fff000 Attr:0x2014200 Display Class API: get the system (primary) buffer OK Display Class API: map display surface to SGX OK Attempt to create transfer context for SGX: OK Do a SRCCOPY blit to the bottom right quadrant of the display: (bottom right quadrant should be red on blue background): OK OK Do a SRCCOPY blit to the top left quadrant of the display: (top left quadrant should be striped (r/g/b/w) on blue background): OK OK Do a CUSTOMSHADER blit to the top right quadrant of the display: (top right quadrant should be yellow): 0xb6acd000 (host) 0xf407000 (device): Device mem for custom shader program 0xb6acb000 (host) 0xf408000 (device): Device mem for texture USE custom shader program: 0x28841001.c0000000	mov.end o0, sa0 OK Do a SRCCOPY blit with COLOUR DOWNSAMPLING from ARGB8888 to RGB565 and then present the RGB565 to the bottom right quadrant of the screen (bottom right quadrant should be a red gradient): OK OK  OK  OK Free the off screen surfaces: OK OK  OK  OK Destroy the transfer context: OK Display Class API: unmap display surface from SGX OK Destroy Device Memory Context Display Class API: close the device OK Release SGX Client Info: OK Disconnect from services: OK -- SGX 3D Blit test - End

SGX Legacy armel only upto v3.2.x
NOTE: this only works on BeagleBoard hardware, BeagleBone stuff is in development..

Requirements: stable-kernel (the Demo Images hosted on rcn-ee.net meet this requirement) https://github.com/RobertCNelson/stable-kernel

Note: Due to a bug (seems to only effect older Beagle Bx/Cx boards, use v3.0.8-x3 based kernels) https://github.com/RobertCNelson/stable-kernel/issues/8 oneiric: wget http://rcn-ee.net/deb/oneiric/v3.0.8-x3/install-me.sh /bin/bash install-me.sh

SDK unPackage Script
Download the latest version of the "create_sgx_package.sh" script 2.6.37 wget https://raw.github.com/RobertCNelson/tools/master/x86/ti_omap/create_sgx_package_2.6.37.sh 2.6.38->3.2.x wget https://raw.github.com/RobertCNelson/tools/master/x86/ti_omap/create_sgx_package_3.2.x.sh

Make script executable chmod a+x ./create_sgx_package_*.sh

Run script ./create_sgx_package_*.sh

After Successfully running:

GFX_Linux_SDK.tar.gz                           : -> Copy to Beagle (DEMO's) Graphics_SDK_setuplinux_X_XX_XX_XX.bin SDK SDK_BIN

Beagle: GFX_*_libs.tar.gz
tar xf GFX_4_00_00_01_libs.tar.gz (extracts install-SGX.sh and run-SGX.sh) ./install-SGX.sh (copies necessary SGX libs and startup script) ./run-SGX.sh (force run the new init script, or you can just reboot...)

On successful install: Stopping PVR Starting PVR Starting SGX fixup for ES2.x (or ES3.x) (or ES5.x xM)

Reboot for good measure sudo reboot

Beagle: GFX_Linux_SDK.tar.gz
tar xf GFX_Linux_SDK.tar.gz cd GFX_Linux_SDK tar xf OGLES.tar.gz

Test SGX with a DEMO
cd OGLES/SDKPackage/Binaries/CommonX11/Demos/EvilSkull ./OGLESEvilSkull

Trouble Shooting
sudo rm /etc/powervr-esrev sudo depmod -a omaplfb sudo /etc/init.d/pvr restart

gst-dsp
The following Gstreamer elements will be installed:

$ gst-inspect | grep dsp dvdspu: dvdspu: Sub-picture Overlay dsp: dspdummy: DSP dummy element dsp: dspvdec: DSP video decoder dsp: dspadec: DSP audio decoder dsp: dsph263enc: DSP video encoder dsp: dspmp4venc: DSP MPEG-4 video encoder dsp: dspjpegenc: DSP video encoder dsp: dsph264enc: DSP video encoder dsp: dspvpp: DSP VPP filter dsp: dspipp: DSP IPP

Please note that h264 encoder (dsph264enc) will not work because of missing h264venc_sn.dll64P DSP part. According to this message, it is not available due to a licensing restriction.

Requirements: Kernel built with: "CONFIG_TIDSPBRIDGE=m", for reference, here is what rcn-ee.net's image/deb's are configured for: ubuntu@arm:~$ zcat /proc/config.gz | grep TIDSP CONFIG_TIDSPBRIDGE=m CONFIG_TIDSPBRIDGE_MEMPOOL_SIZE=0x600000 CONFIG_TIDSPBRIDGE_RECOVERY=y
 * 1) CONFIG_TIDSPBRIDGE_CACHE_LINE_CHECK is not set
 * 2) CONFIG_TIDSPBRIDGE_NTFY_PWRERR is not set
 * 3) CONFIG_TIDSPBRIDGE_BACKTRACE is not set

On the xM: if 3.2.x is too jerky, try 3.4.x and use the create_dsp_package.sh script, as the module changed..

Download the latest version of the "create_dsp_package.sh" script wget https://raw.github.com/RobertCNelson/tools/master/x86/ti_omap/create_dsp_package.sh

Make script executable chmod a+x ./create_dsp_package.sh

Package script: ./create_dsp_package.sh

Copy DSP_Install_libs.tar.gz to Beagle

Setup network...

Extract: ubuntu@arm:~$ tar xf DSP_Install_libs.tar.gz

Install: ubuntu@arm:~$ ./install-DSP.sh

What got installed: ubuntu@arm:~$ ls -lh /lib/dsp/ total 7.1M -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.3M Dec 3 10:56 baseimage.dof -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 51K Dec  3 10:56 conversions.dll64P -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13K Dec  3 10:56 dctn_dyn.dll64P -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2.5M Dec 3 10:56 h264vdec_sn.dll64P -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 481K Dec 3 10:56 jpegdec_sn.dll64P -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 229K Dec 3 10:56 jpegenc_sn.dll64P -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 767K Dec 3 10:56 m4venc_sn.dll64P -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 890K Dec 3 10:56 mp4vdec_sn.dll64P -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 707K Dec 3 10:56 mpeg4aacdec_sn.dll64P -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15K Dec  3 10:56 qosdyn_3430.dll64P -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14K Dec  3 10:56 ringio.dll64P -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9.1K Dec 3 10:56 TSPA_Object_Code_Software_License_Agreement.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 53K Dec  3 10:56 usn.dll64P -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 245K Dec 3 10:56 vpp_sn.dll64P

Building gst-dsp stuff:

If you installed this image via the demo images or netinstall, the gst-dsp build script is installed:

Update arm tools directory to the latest: ubuntu@arm:~$ cd /boot/uboot/tools/ ubuntu@arm:/boot/uboot/tools$ sudo ./update.sh

Otherwise, install via git: git clone git://github.com/RobertCNelson/tools.git

Change to the pkgs directory ubuntu@arm:~$ cd /boot/uboot/tools/pkgs (or if just cloned) ubuntu@arm:~$ cd ~/tools/pkgs

Build gst-dsp stuff.. ./ti-tidspbridge.sh

Start dspbridge (or just reboot) sudo /etc/init.d/dsp_init start

Test dspbridge sudo dsp-test

Playbin: sudo gst-launch playbin2 uri=file://(file)

Example: (using http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/index.php/download/ 854x480 mp4 ) Note: it seems broken in Ubuntu precise armhf...

sudo gst-launch playbin2 uri=file:///home/USER/big_buck_bunny_480p_surround-fix.avi

Xorg omapfb Drivers
By default Debian will try* to use the FBDEV video driver, however for the beagleboard we can take advantage of a more software optimized driver (still not using the sgx video hardware) using the NEON extensions of the Cortex-A8 core.

Lenny might need this xorg.conf, but it's best to use omapfb later in this guide..

/etc/X11/xorg.conf: Section "Device" Identifier	"Configured Video Device" Option		"UseFBDev"		"true" Driver		"fbdev" EndSection

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep FBDEV (II) FBDEV: driver for framebuffer: fbdev (II) FBDEV(0): using default device (II) FBDEV(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen section (==) FBDEV(0): Depth 16, (==) framebuffer bpp 16 (==) FBDEV(0): RGB weight 565

Login into Debian and open a new terminal, xorg has to be running..

xvinfo -display :0.0 X-Video Extension version 2.2 screen #0 no adaptors present

Drivers
Note: These are built with neon optimizations: http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/xf86-video-omapfb.git;a=blob;f=debian/rules;h=c2f0d5391c96c5abb60b1e691ad86bb27e0c17d8;hb=HEAD (line 48/49)

Lenny: wget -c http://rcn-ee.homeip.net:81/dl/deb-sbuild/lenny/xorg-drivers/xserver-xorg-video-omap3_0.1.1-2_armel.deb sudo dpkg -i xserver-xorg-video-omap3_0.1.1-2_armel.deb

Squeeze/Sid: sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-omap3

xorg.conf
/etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "Monitor" Identifier "Configured Monitor" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Device "Configured Video Device" #Limited by SGX? DefaultDepth 16 EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Configured Video Device" Driver "omapfb" Option "fb" "/dev/fb0" EndSection

To verify it was correctly installed, reboot and:

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep omapfb (II) LoadModule: "omapfb" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//omapfb_drv.so (II) Module omapfb: vendor="X.Org Foundation" (II) omapfb: Driver for OMAP framebuffer (omapfb) and external LCD controllers: (WW) Error opening /sys/devices/platform/omapfb/ctrl/name: No such file or directory (II) omapfb(0): VideoRAM: 1800KiB (SDRAM) (II) omapfb(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen section (**) omapfb(0): Depth 16, (--) framebuffer bpp 16 (==) omapfb(0): RGB weight 565 (==) omapfb(0): Default visual is TrueColor (--) omapfb(0): Virtual size is 1280x720 (pitch 1280) (**) omapfb(0): Built-in mode "current" (==) omapfb(0): DPI set to (96, 96) (II) omapfb(0): DPMS enabled (II) omapfb(0): Video plane capabilities: (II) omapfb(0): Video plane supports the following image formats: (II) omapfb(0): XVideo extension initialized

Login into Debian and open a new terminal, xorg has to be running..

xvinfo -display :0.0 X-Video Extension version 2.2 screen #0 Adaptor #0: "OMAP XV adaptor" number of ports: 1 port base: 56 operations supported: PutImage supported visuals: depth 16, visualID 0x21 number of attributes: 1 etc..

Building Kernel
https://github.com/RobertCNelson/stable-kernel

Download SRC git clone git://github.com/RobertCNelson/stable-kernel.git

Build Kernel ./build_kernel.sh

Optional Building Deb File ./build_deb.sh

= Upgrading from Debian 5 to Debian 6 =

Upgrading from Debian 5 to Debian 6 report and tutorial.