Custom kernel with custom DTS doesn't seem to change the 'compatible' value

Hi,

I have designed and built a TX1 carrier board that has, among other components, three Raspberry Pi camera connectors. I want to build a custom u-boot/kernel to interface with these cameras.

I am relatively new to porting the kernel but have read through the driver documentation as well as other resources and written myself a guide. If you’re interested here it is:

http://cospandesign.github.io/linux/2016/04/11/tx1-bringup.html

I can boot into userland

Fortunately everything is booting with a custom u-boot and custom kernel but not everything is as I expected.

The major issue is that the root ‘compatible’ value is ‘nvidia,jetson_cv’ and not ‘nvidia,mit_uav_reva’

Custom extlinux.conf

I’ve created and used a new extlinux.conf.emmc to configure the u-boot → kernel handoff, specifying my DTB file

Here is what it looks like:

TIMEOUT 30
DEFAULT primary

MENU TITLE mit-uav-reva eMMC boot options

LABEL primary
      MENU LABEL primary kernel
      LINUX /boot/Image
      INITRD /boot/initrd
      FDT /boot/tegra210-mit-uav-reva.dtb
      APPEND fbcon=map:0 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8 androidboot.modem=none androidboot.serialno=P2180A00P00940c003fd androidboot.security=non-secure tegraid=21.1.2.0.0 ddr_die=2048M@2048M ddr_die=2048M@4096M section=256M memtype=0 vpr_resize usb_port_owner_info=0 lane_owner_info=0 emc_max_dvfs=0 touch_id=0@63 video=tegrafb no_console_suspend=1 debug_uartport=lsport,0 earlyprintk=uart8250-32bit,0x70006000 maxcpus=4 usbcore.old_scheme_first=1 lp0_vec=${lp0_vec} nvdumper_reserved=${nvdumper_reserved} core_edp_mv=1125 core_edp_ma=4000 gpt android.kerneltype=normal androidboot.touch_vendor_id=0 androidboot.touch_panel_id=63 androidboot.touch_feature=0 androidboot.bootreason=pmc:software_reset,pmic:0x0 net.ifnames=0 root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rw rootwait

Here is an excerpt from my base dts file (which is referenced in my tegra210-mit-uav-reva.dts file).

arch/arm64/boot/dts/tegra210-jetson-cv-base-mit-uav-reva.dts

...
#include "tegra210-common.dtsi"
#include "tegra210-platforms/tegra210-audio.dtsi"
#include "tegra210-platforms/tegra210-jetson-cv-power-tree-p2597-2180-a00.dtsi"
//#include "tegra210-platforms/tegra210-jetson-cv-pinmux-p2597-2180-a00.dtsi"
#include "tegra210-platforms/tegra210-mit-uav-reva-pinmux.dtsi"

#include "tegra210-platforms/tegra210-pinmux-drive-sdmmc-common.dtsi"
#include "tegra210-platforms/tegra210-jetson-cv-prods.dtsi"
#include "tegra210-platforms/tegra210-comms-p2530-0930.dtsi"
#include "tegra210-platforms/tegra210-jetson-cv-camera-modules.dtsi"
#include "tegra210-platforms/tegra210-pwm-fan-p2530-0930.dtsi"
#include "panel-a-wuxga-8-0.dtsi"
#include "panel-a-edp-1080p-14-0.dtsi"
#include "panel-s-edp-uhdtv-15-6.dtsi"
#include "panel-s-wqxga-10-1.dtsi"
#include "tegra210-platforms/tegra210-ers-hdmi-e2190-1100-a00.dtsi"
#include "tegra210-platforms/tegra210-sdhci.dtsi"
#include "tegra210-platforms/tegra210-p2180-common.dtsi"
#include "tegra210-platforms/tegra210-thermal-fan-est-p2530-0930.dtsi"
#include "tegra210-platforms/tegra210-jetson-cv-keys-p2597-2180-a00.dtsi"
#include <dt-bindings/iio/meter/ina3221x.h>
#include "tegra210-platforms/tegra210-foster-e-extcon-p2530-0930-e01.dtsi"
#include "tegra210-platforms/tegra210-jetson-cv-emc-p2180-1000-a00.dtsi"
#include "tegra210-platforms/tegra210-edp.dtsi"
#include "tegra210-platforms/tegra210-sysedp.dtsi"
#include "tegra210-platforms/tegra210-thermal-nct72-p2530.dtsi"
#include "tegra210-platforms/tegra210-thermal-Tboard-Tdiode.dtsi"
#include "tegra210-platforms/tegra210-jetson-cv-powermon-p2180-1000-a00.dtsi"
#include "tegra210-platforms/tegra210-jetson-cv-powermon-p2597.dtsi"
#include "tegra210-platforms/tegra210-jetson-cpufreq.dtsi"
#include "tegra210-platforms/tegra210-overrides/tegra210-power-dvfs-override-ucm1c.dtsi"
#include "tegra210-platforms/tegra210-jetson-cv-super-module-e2614.dtsi"
#include "tegra210-plugin-manager/tegra210-jetson-cv-eeprom-manager.dtsi"
//#include "tegra210-plugin-manager/tegra210-jetson-cv-plugin-manager.dtsi"
#include "tegra210-plugin-manager/tegra210-mit-uav-reva-plugin-manager.dtsi"


/ {
  model = "jetson_cv";
  compatible = "nvidia,mit-uav-reva", "nvidia,tegra210";

  nvidia,dtsfilename = __FILE__;

  nvidia,boardids = "C594:2180:A0";
  nvidia,proc-boardid = "C594:2180:A0";
  nvidia,pmu-boardid = "C594:2180:A0";

  #address-cells = <2>;
  #size-cells = <2>;
...

After I boot into userland I can navigate to /proc/device-tree and execute:

printf "nvidia,boardids: `cat nvidia,boardid`\n"

Which, correctly outputs this:

nvidia,boardids: C594:2180:A0

As apposed to what is declared with the default dts (tegra210-jetson-cv-base-p2597-2180-a00.dtb)

nvidia,boardids: 2597:2180:A0

So I know that my DTS/DTB is correctly being read but what I don’t understand is why when I output

printf "compatible: `cat compatible`\n"

I get this

nvidia,jetson-cv

What’s wrong? Is there something incorrectly specified in the bootloader. If I were to halt u-boot before I boot the kernel I can use ‘printenv’ to see this

Tegra210 (UAV-REVA-2180) # printenv
arch=arm
baudrate=115200
board=mit-uav-reva
board_name=mit-uav-reva
boot_a_script=load ${devtype} ${devnum}:${bootpart} ${scriptaddr} ${prefix}${script}; source ${scriptaddr}
boot_extlinux=sysboot ${devtype} ${devnum}:${bootpart} any ${scriptaddr} ${prefix}extlinux/extlinux.conf
boot_net_usb_start=usb start
boot_prefixes=/ /boot/
boot_script_dhcp=boot.scr.uimg
boot_scripts=boot.scr.uimg boot.scr
boot_targets=mmc1 mmc0 usb0 pxe dhcp 
bootcmd=run distro_bootcmd
bootcmd_dhcp=run boot_net_usb_start; if dhcp ${scriptaddr} ${boot_script_dhcp}; then source ${scriptaddr}; fi
bootcmd_mmc0=setenv devnum 0; run mmc_boot
bootcmd_mmc1=setenv devnum 1; run mmc_boot
bootcmd_pxe=run boot_net_usb_start; dhcp; if pxe get; then pxe boot; fi
bootcmd_usb0=setenv devnum 0; run usb_boot
bootdelay=2
cpu=armv8
distro_bootcmd=for target in ${boot_targets}; do run bootcmd_${target}; done
fdt_addr_r=0x82000000
fdt_copy_node_names=/memory-controller@7001b000
fdt_copy_src_addr=0x83080000
fdt_high=ffffffffffffffff
initrd_high=ffffffffffffffff
kernel_addr_r=0x80080000
loadaddr=0x80080000
lp0_vec=0x1000@0xff2bf000
mmc_boot=if mmc dev ${devnum}; then setenv devtype mmc; run scan_dev_for_boot_part; fi
nvdumper_reserved=0xff23f000
pxefile_addr_r=0x90100000
ramdisk_addr_r=0x83100000
scan_dev_for_boot=echo Scanning ${devtype} ${devnum}:${bootpart}...; for prefix in ${boot_prefixes}; do run scan_dev_for_extlinux; run scan_dev_for_scripts; done
scan_dev_for_boot_part=part list ${devtype} ${devnum} -bootable devplist; env exists devplist || setenv devplist 1; for bootpart in ${devplist}; do if fstype ${devtype} ${devnum}:${bootpart} bootfstype; then run scan_dev_for_boot; fi; done
scan_dev_for_extlinux=if test -e ${devtype} ${devnum}:${bootpart} ${prefix}extlinux/extlinux.conf; then echo Found ${prefix}extlinux/extlinux.conf; run boot_extlinux; echo SCRIPT FAILED: continuing...; fi
scan_dev_for_scripts=for script in ${boot_scripts}; do if test -e ${devtype} ${devnum}:${bootpart} ${prefix}${script}; then echo Found U-Boot script ${prefix}${script}; run boot_a_script; echo SCRIPT FAILED: continuing...; fi; done
scriptaddr=0x90000000
soc=tegra210
stderr=serial
stdin=serial
stdout=serial
usb_boot=usb start; if usb dev ${devnum}; then setenv devtype usb; run scan_dev_for_boot_part; fi
vendor=nvidia

Environment size: 2381/8188 bytes
Tegra210 (UAV-REVA-2180) #

I’m sure some Linux guru can point me in the right direction.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Dave

Soooo I found a bad link inside of one of my build scripts which was inadvertently building an older version…

Thanks to anyone looking at it but everything is fine.

Hopefully you’ll be selling this board, a lot of people have been trying to get RaspPi cameras working with Jetson since the TX1 (and the TK1 before that) was first released.

I hope we can get this board working well enough to sell it!