L27.G.0 OMAP4460 GingerBread Release Notes

= Introduction = This software release has been developed and verified in the following software and hardware environment.

Please note Toolchain required is 2010q1-202.

OS Kernel: Linux® 2.6.35 Android:  Android Gingerbread 2.3.3 Toolchain: CodeSourcery compiler version Sourcery G++ Lite 2010q1-202 for ARM GNU/Linux Reference hardware platform: TI OMAP4 4460 ES1.0 GP Blaze Build Host OS: Ubuntu Daily Build Version: Gingerbread_DailyBuild_4460_9

=Tools & Dependency packages=

Pre-requisite packages for build Android Filesystem (Note this is with reference to Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit). Ubuntu 64-bit is required by Gingerbread.

If you are behind firewall, you will have to set-up firewall using the instructions in

The following commands will install the correct packages to your server:

sudo apt-get install git-core flex bison gperf libesd0-dev zip libwxgtk2.6-dev zlib1g-dev build-essential tofrodos x-dev sudo apt-get install lib32readline5-dev libstdc++6 lib32z1 lib32z1-dev ia32-libs g++-multilib libx11-dev libncurses5-dev

Add the partner repositories and install the JDK:

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ lucid partner" sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk

Install repo tool:

mkdir ~/bin -p sudo apt-get install curl curl http://android.git.kernel.org/repo > ~/bin/repo chmod a+x ~/bin/repo export PATH=~/bin:$PATH

If you do not have sudo rights to your machine, contact your System Administrator for assistance.

Tool Chain for building Kernel and Drivers

The Kernel and Driver sources are built using Sourcery G++ Lite 2010q1-202 for ARM GNU/Linux version.

This tool chain can be obtained from

=Downloading Release Software= Android Filesystem Sources

you can get the Android source for this release by doing: cd export YOUR_PATH=`pwd` mkdir -p 27.G.0/mydroid; cd 27.G.0/mydroid export MYDROID=`pwd` repo init -u git://git.omapzoom.org/platform/omapmanifest.git -b 27.x -m RLS27.G.0_Gingerbread.xml repo sync

Kernel & Driver Sources

To clone kernel source from scratch do: cd ${YOUR_PATH} mkdir kernel git clone git://git.omapzoom.org/kernel/omap.git kernel/android-2.6.35 cd kernel/android-2.6.35 git checkout b47258329b03b22b1f6aef992aaa53ca0945f2ee If you already have kernel source cloned then just update it: cd $YOUR_PATH/kernel/android-2.6.35 git fetch origin git checkout b47258329b03b22b1f6aef992aaa53ca0945f2ee

U-Boot Sources cd ${YOUR_PATH} git clone git://git.omapzoom.org/repo/u-boot.git u-boot cd u-boot git checkout 601ff71c8d46b5e90e13613974a16d10f2006bb3

X-loader Sources cd ${YOUR_PATH} git clone git://git.omapzoom.org/repo/x-loader.git x-loader cd x-loader git checkout 203c01320b1b2dcb72fa428e6553fa28155c8d48

=Release Content=

This release has the below content - Kernel and Drivers tested with OMAP4 4460 ES1.0 EMU Blaze platform and verified with Gingerbread UI - A9 source code for accelerating Video

The release has been verified with OMAP4 SGX hardware Graphics Accelerator libraries and accelerated Video codecs. Please contact TI customer representative to gain access TI proprietary packages or the SGX hardware Graphics Accelerator libraries and required binaries are now included within the mydroid repository at mydroid/device/ti/proprietary-open/graphics/omap4. These libraries and binaries will need to be copied to mydroid/out/target/product/blaze when building for the blaze board. Use the command below:

cp -ax mydroid/device/ti/proprietary-open/graphics/omap4/* mydroid/out/target/product/blaze

=Build Instructions=

Setting up build environment
From your work directory (where your 27.G.0 folder resides): export YOUR_PATH=`pwd` export PATH=$PATH:/arm-2010q1/bin export MYDROID=${YOUR_PATH}/27.G.0/mydroid mkdir $MYDROID/logs export CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-linux-gnueabi- export PATH=${YOUR_PATH}/u-boot/tools:${PATH}

Building U-BOOT
cd ${YOUR_PATH}/u-boot make distclean make ARCH=arm omap4430sdp_config make 2>&1 |tee $MYDROID/logs/u-boot_make.out

Building X-LOADER
cd ${YOUR_PATH}/x-loader make distclean make ARCH=arm omap4430sdp_config make ift 2>&1 |tee $MYDROID/logs/x-loader_make.out mv MLO MLO_es1.0_gp
 * 1) For fastboot.sh flashing script purpouse rename MLO: ####

Signing X-LOADER for EMU devices

The tool for signing x-loader is provided on TI's package. Please contact TI customer representative to get access to this tool. cd ${YOUR_PATH}/mshield-dk cp -f ${YOUR_PATH}/x-loader/x-load.bin. ./generate_MLO OMAP4460 ES1.0 x-load.bin

mv MLO MLO_es1.0_emu
 * 1) For fastboot.sh flashing script purpose rename MLO: ####

Building Kernel
To create kernel uImage you need to add "mkimage" directory path to your "PATH" environment variable: cd ${YOUR_PATH}/kernel/android-2.6.35 make ARCH=arm distclean make ARCH=arm android_4430_defconfig make ARCH=arm uImage 2>&1 |tee $MYDROID/logs/kernel_make.out

Building Kernel modules
cd ${YOUR_PATH}/kernel/android-2.6.35 make ARCH=arm modules 2>&1 |tee $MYDROID/logs/kernel_modules.out

Building WLAN driver
cd $MYDROID/hardware/ti/wlan/wl1283/platforms/os/linux export KERNEL_DIR=${YOUR_PATH}/kernel/android-2.6.35 make ARCH=arm TNETW=1283

Building SoftAP/HotSpot driver
cd $MYDROID/hardware/ti/wlan/wl1283_softAP/platforms/os/linux export KERNEL_DIR=${YOUR_PATH}/kernel/android-2.6.35 make ARCH=arm TNETW=1283

Building Android Filesystem (AFS) with TI Codecs enabled
on step below use the number of cores you have available; i.e. -j4 or -j12: cd $MYDROID cp -Rfp device/ti/blaze/buildspec.mk.default buildspec.mk make clean ;#(required for rebuild only) make -j4 2>&1 |tee $MYDROID/logs/android_make.out

Building AFS with Android Codecs
This release was not verified with Android codecs. Camera based applications need TI proprietary drivers. Please contact TI customer representative to get access to proprietary sources

Preparing Android binaries
The following binaries are required by the Blaze® board. This step will prepare a directory, called myfs, containing all necessary Android files that you must include within your SD card. (The fm_v4l2 driver has been added in this release and the st_drv module previously built and copied is now no longer required as a .ko modele as it is built into the kernel.) cd $YOUR_PATH mkdir myfs cd myfs cp -Rfp ${YOUR_PATH}/kernel/android-2.6.35/drivers/staging/ti-st/*.ko $MYDROID/out/target/product/blaze/root cp -Rfp ${YOUR_PATH}/kernel/android-2.6.35/drivers/bluetooth/btwilink.ko $MYDROID/out/target/product/blaze/root cp -Rfp ${YOUR_PATH}/kernel/android-2.6.35/drivers/media/radio/wl128x/fm_v4l2_drv.ko $MYDROID/out/target/product/blaze/root cp -Rfp $MYDROID/hardware/ti/wlan/wl1283/platforms/os/linux/tiwlan_drv.ko $MYDROID/out/target/product/blaze/system/etc/wifi/ cp -Rfp $MYDROID/hardware/ti/wlan/wl1283_softAP/platforms/os/linux/tiap_drv.ko $MYDROID/out/target/product/blaze/system/etc/wifi/softap/ cp -ax $MYDROID/device/ti/proprietary-open/graphics/omap4/* $MYDROID/out/target/product/blaze  (To be run if you haven't build the SGX DDK) cp -Rfp $MYDROID/out/target/product/blaze/root/*. cp -Rfp $MYDROID/out/target/product/blaze/system/. cp -Rfp $MYDROID/out/target/product/blaze/data/.

Changing default display resolution on Android

Default LCD density is now set to 240 (was 160 previously by default). If you want to come back to the previous setting to make Android UI look smaller (smaller icons, etc...), comment the following line in system/build.prop
 * 1) ro.sf.lcd_density=240

It is recommended to remove the "critical" setting when the syslink_daemon for ducati is booting. To do this you will need to edit init.omap4430.rc for eMMC boot or mmc-init.omap4430.rc for SD boot as indicated: service baseimage /system/bin/syslink_daemon.out -f /data/base_image_sys_m3.xem3 /data/base_image_app_m3.xem3 critical (Remove this line) user media group media
 * 1) Load IVA firmware

So it will be: service baseimage /system/bin/syslink_daemon.out -f /data/base_image_sys_m3.xem3 /data/base_image_app_m3.xem3 user media group media
 * 1) Load IVA firmware

Preparing eMMC images
cd $YOUR_PATH mkdir omap4_emmc_files cp -f $MYDROID/out/host/linux-x86/bin/fastboot omap4_emmc_files cp -f $MYDROID/out/host/linux-x86/bin/mkbootimg omap4_emmc_files if [ -e ${YOUR_PATH}/27.G.0/u-boot/u-boot.bin ] ; then cp -f ${YOUR_PATH}/27.G.0/u-boot/u-boot.bin omap4_emmc_files cp -f ${YOUR_PATH}/27.G.0/x-loader/MLO_es1.0_gp omap4_emmc_files cp -f ${YOUR_PATH}/27.G.0/kernel/android-2.6.35/arch/arm/boot/zImage omap4_emmc_files else cp -f ${YOUR_PATH}/u-boot/u-boot.bin omap4_emmc_files cp -f ${YOUR_PATH}/x-loader/MLO_es1.0_gp omap4_emmc_files cp -f ${YOUR_PATH}/kernel/android-2.6.35/arch/arm/boot/zImage omap4_emmc_files fi

cp -f /MLO_es1.0_emu omap4_emmc_files

Creating img files:

cd ${MYDROID} find out/target/product/blaze -name *.img -exec rm -f {} \; make cp -f ${MYDROID}/out/target/product/blaze/*.img $YOUR_PATH/omap4_emmc_files This build should not take too much time and will re-generate a new *.img files with the modified init.rc file in it (If you built and installed GFX after compiling AFS, system.img and data.img will also be updated with the GFX files).

Now from this new directory we will create the eMMC images which will be flashed using fastboot protocol (described later). First create boot.img image using kernel image we copied previously:

cd $YOUR_PATH/omap4_emmc_files ./mkbootimg --kernel zImage --ramdisk ramdisk.img --base 0x80000000 --cmdline "console=ttyO2,115200n8 rootdelay=2 mem=456M@0x80000000 mem=512M@0xA0000000 init=/init vram=10M omapfb.vram=0:4M androidboot.console=ttyO2" --board omap4 -o boot.img

Please note: To edit BootArgs you need to create again boot.img with the desired bootargs in --cmdline <"bootargs">

Now create cache partition: cd $YOUR_PATH/omap4_emmc_files dd if=/dev/zero of=./cache.img bs=1048510 count=128 mkfs.ext4 -F cache.img -L cache

And finally the environment file with the bootargs and bootcmd information (see bootargs section)

= Booting Kernel and Android File System from SD card = Formatting SD Card

You will need to format your SD for the Linux file system. Connect your SD memory card reader with memory card inserted to a USB port on your Linux Ubuntu PC. You must login as Super User.

$ su $ fdisk -l

Match the device to the size of your memory card. Look for the /dev/*** device which matches the memory card in the card reader. Use the matching device’s letter prefix in the next command. For example if the device for memory card reader card example was: /dev/sdb1, then use only /dev/sdb in the fdisk command.

Take note of the size in bytes of your SD Card. You will need this to calculate the number of cylinders in a future step.

$ fdisk /dev/sdb (replace sdb with the letter prefix for your device)

(Delete all partitions on the card if they exist) Command (m for help): d Partition number (1-4): 1 Command (m for help): d Selected partition 2

Command (m for help): x

(Change the number of heads, sectors and cylinders on the device) Expert command (m for help): h Number of heads (1-256, default 255): 255 Expert command (m for help): s Number of sectors (1-63, default 63): 63 Expert command (m for help): c Number of cylinders (1-1048576, default 248): 

(Now return to the main menu) Expert command (m for help): r

(Create the first partition) Command (m for help): n Command action e  extended p  primary partition (1-4) p Partition number (1-4): 1 First cylinder (1-248, default 1): 1 Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-248, default 248): +64M

If you plan to use this SD card partition for storing media your can use +1024M assuming a 2+ GB SD card.

(Create the second partition) Command (m for help): n Command action e  extended p  primary partition (1-4) p Partition number (1-4): 2 First cylinder (10-248, default 10): 10 Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (124-248, default 248): 

(Change the first partition to at FAT32 partition) Command (m for help): t Partition number (1-4): 1 Hex code (type L to list codes): c Changed system type of partition 1 to c (W95 FAT32 (LBA))

(Toggle the bootable flag for partition 1) Command (m for help): a Partition number (1-4): 1

(Print the partition table to confirm your settings) Command (m for help): p

(Sample Output – your output may differ depending on your SD card’s size and brand) Disk /dev/sdb: 2041 MB, 2041577472 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 248 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Device Boot     Start         End      Blocks   Id  System /dev/sdb1  *           1         9        72261     c  W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/sdb2             10       248     1919767+    83  Linux

(Write your changes to the SD Card) Command (m for help): w

(You will see the following output) The partition table has been altered!

Calling ioctl to re-read partition table.

WARNING: If you have created or modified any DOS 6.x partitions, please see the fdisk manual page for additional information. Syncing disks.

Format your partitions typing the following commands (logged as root@ubuntu-box): $ mkfs.vfat -F 32 -n boot /dev/ $ mkfs.ext3 -L android_fs /dev/

There is a shell script that all calculations above automatically; to get it do: $ wget http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded/plain/contrib/angstrom/omap3-mkcard.sh

Add execution permission: $ chmod +x omap3-mkcard.sh

And you are ready to use it by just typing: $sudo ./omap3-mkcard.sh 

Copying Binaries onto SD Card

Now type the following to mount your SD Card on your Linux box (logged as root@ubuntu-box): $ mkdir /tmp/mmc1 $ mkdir /tmp/mmc2 $ mount /dev/ /tmp/mmc1 $ mount /dev/ /tmp/mmc2

Load the appropriate software to the SD Card (logged as root@ubuntu-box): $ cp $YOUR_PATH/x-loader/MLO /tmp/mmc1  (if you are using EMU or HS device, plese copy signed MLO instead) $ cp $YOUR_PATH/u-boot/u-boot.bin /tmp/mmc1 $ cp ${YOUR_PATH}/27.G.0/kernel/android-2.6.35/arch/arm/boot/uImage /tmp/mmc1 $ cp -Rfp $YOUR_PATH/27.G.0/myfs/* /tmp/mmc2 $ chmod –R 777 /tmp/mmc2/* $ umount /tmp/mmc1 $ umount /tmp/mmc2

Booting SD boot is not offically supported hence SD boot was not validated Insert your SD card (with u-boot, x-loader and uImage loaded in FAT partition and ) into Blaze SD/MMC card slot, then plug the Blaze mini USB port to your PC and open a serial terminal (baudrate:115200, no parity, 8 bits). Power your board up and in your terminal window you should be able to see the ‘New’ u-boot prompt:

“OMAP44XX SDP #”

In your serial terminal define the bootargs and boot as mentioned in the bootarg section.

Right after this your Blaze should start booting using the kernel image and loading the Android filesystem from your SD

= Booting Kernel and Android File System from eMMC = Formatting eMMC

If your are going to use eMMC for the first time, you need to create the appropriate partition table and create a filesystem (format) for each partition. For this you need to load u-boot from your SD card; for this you need to change your SYS_BOOT configuration (S2-[1:3] OFF, ON, OFF). Use the u-boot.bin and the x-loader you built for this release; copy them to your "boot" partition of your SD card, turn your Blaze on and press any key on your serial terminal to stop the auto-boot process.

Now type from you serial terminal (on the u-boot prompt) 'fastboot' and board should be waiting for any fastboot command. You should see something like this: [Please note this is an older snapshot (so rev numbers you see might be different as compared to below)]

-- OMAP 4 PPA release 1.0.5 -- Reset reason = 00030181

Texas Instruments X-Loader 1.41 (Feb 25 2011 - 22:30:29) Starting OS Bootloader from EMMC ...

U-Boot 1.1.4-gbf5e493e (Feb 25 2011 - 22:30:11)

Load address: 0x80e80000 DRAM: 1024 MB Flash:  0 kB In:    serial Out:  serial Err:  serial Net:  KS8851SNL Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 OMAP44XX SDP # fastboot Fastboot entered...

If you had SD card S2 Dip swtich cnfiguration, you can change it now to eMMC conf: SYS_BOOT configuration to boot from eMMC (S2-[1:3] ON, ON, ON)

Now connect the Blaze micro USB port to your Linux box and go to where the eMMC files are. Previous partitions created will be deleted and eMMC will be flashed with new u-boot and MLO. Make sure the commands are issued as super user. You can use ./fastboot.sh which is located at $MYDROID/device/ti/blaze/boot. This is for ES2.2 devices.

cd $YOUR_PATH/omap4_emmc_files cp -f $MYDROID/device/ti/blaze/boot/fastboot.sh. sed -i 's/${FASTBOOT-".\/..\/..\/..\/..\/out\/host\/linux-x86\/bin\/fastboot"}/.\/fastboot/g' fastboot.sh sed -i 's/${PRODUCT_OUT-".\/"}/./g' fastboot.sh   sed -i 's/.boot\/$MLO/\/$MLO/g' fastboot.sh sed -i 's/.boot\/u-boot.bin/\/u-boot.bin/g' fastboot.sh sed -i 's/MLO_es2.2_emu/MLO_es1.0_emu/g' fastboot.sh sed -i 's/MLO_es2.2_gp/MLO_es1.0_gp/g' fastboot.sh

./fastboot.sh --emu  for gp run: ./fastboot.sh --gp

For your information the script does the following: cd $YOUR_PATH/omap4_emmc_files ./fastboot flash xloader ./MLO ./fastboot flash bootloader ./u-boot.bin ./fastboot reboot-bootloader sleep 5 ./fastboot oem format ./fastboot flash boot ./boot.img ./fastboot flash system ./system.img ./fastboot flash userdata ./userdata.img ./fastboot flash cache ./cache.img

Booting

Power your board up and in your terminal window you should be able to see the auto-boot process start in 3 seconds:

-- OMAP 4 PPA release 1.0.0 -- Reset reason = 00030181

Texas Instruments X-Loader 1.41 (Feb 25 2011 - 22:30:29) Starting OS Bootloader from EMMC ...

U-Boot 1.1.4-gbf5e493e (Feb 25 2011 - 22:30:11)

Load address: 0x80e80000 DRAM: 1024 MB Flash:  0 kB In:    serial Out:  serial Err:  serial Net:  KS8851SNL Hit any key to stop autoboot: 5

Boot Arguments:

setenv bootargs console=ttyO2,115200n8 rootdelay=2 mem=456M@0x80000000 mem=512M@0xA0000000 init=/init vram="10M" omapfb.vram="0:4M" androidboot.console=ttyO2

Environment size: 223/131068 bytes

To continue booting just type 'boot' and the boot process will start.

=Bootargs=

'''L27.G.0 SD card booting is not offically supported, init.rc and init.omap4430.rc need to be modified as follows:

init.rc  on post-fs # once everything is setup, no need to modify / mount rootfs rootfs / rw remount

init.omap4430.rc on fs   #mount ext4 /dev/block/platform/mmci-omap-hs.1/by-name/system /system wait ro    #mount ext4 /dev/block/platform/mmci-omap-hs.1/by-name/userdata /data wait noatime nosuid nodev #mount ext4 /dev/block/platform/mmci-omap-hs.1/by-name/cache /cache wait noatime nosuid nodev

The sd card bootargs are present in device/ti/blaze/sd_card_env.txt file '''

eMMC bootargs given in env.txt

The eMMC bootargs are present in device/ti/blaze/env.txt file

Right after this your Blaze should start booting kernel image and loading the Android filesystem both from Blaze eMMC In order to issue commands, it is necessary to type “su -“ on the console.

=Resources=

WLAN Calibration
For optimal Wi-Fi performance calibration of Wi-Fi hardware is mandatory, follow the procedure from WLAN_Calibration

WLAN Firmware files
The Wi-Fi and softAP/HotSpot firmware files go to following locations on file system  Wi-Fi Firmware (firmware.bin) --> /system/etc/wifi/firmware.bin  SoftAP/HotSpot Firmware (firmware_ap.bin) --> /system/etc/wifi/softap/firmware_ap.bin 