Beaglebone Black PRUs

[Jason Kridner]

There's some work on the 3.14 kernel and against mainline. UIO should be in
mainline. Have you been checking patches on
http://github.com/beagleboard/linux ?

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Víctor Mayoral Vilches <
victor at erlerobot.com> wrote:

> Gustavo,
>
> AFAIK only certain kernel versions provide full cape (and kernel modules)
> support. There're several kernel modules not supported in newer kernels
> (e.g. remoteproc or the capemgr).
> I'd consider the two mentioned above as fundamental (when speaking about
> the BBB community).
>
> I've CC'ed Jason Kridner from BeagleBoard. Jason, are there any plans to
> fully support modules such as the capemgr or remoteproc in newer kernel
> versions?
> Kind regards,
>
> *Víctor Mayoral Vilches*
> CTO & Co-Founder
>
>
>
> *Erle Robotics*
> erlerobotics.com | victor at erlerobot.com
> +34 616151561
> *skype*: v.mayoral
>
>
> 2015-03-12 17:30 GMT+01:00 Gustavo Niemeyer <
> gustavo.niemeyer at canonical.com>:
>
>> Hi Victor,
>>
>> Nice, and thanks for jumping in. I imagined it would be slightly hard to
>> fly a quadcopter without realtime. :-)
>>
>> Is there a reason why we cannot have those modules in the stock BBB
>> kernel?  Is there anything else that you depend on and we might consider
>> integrating?
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Víctor Mayoral Vilches <
>> victor at erlerobot.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Gustavo,
>>>
>>> We (Erle Robotics <http://erlerobotics.com>) make use of the PRUs with
>>> Snappy. You just need a kernel that supports the modules you mention. Paolo
>>> Pissati helped with that and we placed instruction on how to do that (v3.8)
>>> here
>>> <http://erlerobotics.gitbooks.io/erle-robotics-erle-brain-a-linux-brain-for-drones/content/en/software/snappy.html>.
>>> Feel free to reach me anytime (vmayoral @ #snappy).
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> *Víctor Mayoral Vilches*
>>> CTO & Co-Founder
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *Erle Robotics*
>>> erlerobotics.com | victor at erlerobot.com
>>> +34 616151561
>>> *skype*: v.mayoral
>>>
>>>
>>> 2015-03-12 16:36 GMT+01:00 Gustavo Niemeyer <
>>> gustavo.niemeyer at canonical.com>:
>>>
>>>> Hey Snappiers,
>>>>
>>>> Is anyone putting the PRUs (Programmable Realtime Units) on the TI's
>>>> AM3358 to good use with Snappy? I assumed this was the case, given
>>>> that we have a few projects that would clearly benefit from the
>>>> realtime capabilities (robots, quadcopters, etc), but digging a bit it
>>>> looks like the current BBB-specific images do not offer the necessary
>>>> kernel support for that. Both the uio and the remoteproc drivers seem
>>>> to be missing (although I'm not sure the remoteproc driver would do
>>>> much good, given how incipient it is).
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone played with that yet?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> gustavo @ http://niemeyer.net
>>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
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>>
>
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