Re: [Gumstix-users] Gumstix and econ systems...

[Ananthapadmanaban <gap...@e-...>]

Hi Greg,

  Hope this link will be useful for you to create a boot-able sdcard.
*    http://gumstix.org/create-a-bootable-microsd-card.html

*and  make use of factory tested image of gumstix from
*    http://cumulus.gumstix.org/images/angstrom/factory*

Thanks and regards,
Ananth.

On 03/08/2012 01:00 AM, Greg Ericksen wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> We recently purchased a Gumstix OveroFE and a Tobi expansion board. We 
> also purchased an econ-systems e-CAM50_CU35x_GSTIX camera. Now I have 
> some questions, and please forgive my ignorance, my Linux and 
> electronics knowledge is limited. I am only a mechanical engineer and 
> not very knowledgeable about such things. (Not on this planet anyway.)
>
> The camera came with a microSD card that appeared to contain two 
> partitions, one named "boot" and another named "rootfs". >From what I 
> have been able to glean this is normal for a Gumstix bootable microSD 
> card. The two partitions contained to following stuff.
>
> rootfs:
>
> drwxrwxr-x  2 root root 4096 1999-12-31 16:13 bin
> drwxrwxr-x  2 root root 4096 2011-07-23 10:47 boot
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 2011-07-21 20:18 dev
> drwxr-xr-x  7  500  500 4096 2011-11-14 03:14 
> e-CAM50_CU35x_GSTIX_BIN_1.356
> drwxr-xr-x 59 root root 4096 2011-07-23 15:18 etc
> drwxrwxr-x  3 root root 4096 2011-07-23 10:45 home
> drwxrwxr-x  5 root root 4096 1999-12-31 16:09 lib
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   12 2011-08-30 03:11 linuxrc -> /bin/busybox
> drwxrwxr-x 12 root root 4096 1999-12-31 16:00 media
> drwxrwxr-x  3 root root 4096 2011-07-23 10:47 mnt
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2011-07-21 20:18 proc
> drwxrwxr-x  2 root root 4096 1999-12-31 16:10 sbin
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2011-07-21 20:18 sys
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    8 2011-08-30 03:11 tmp -> /var/tmp
> drwxrwxr-x 12 root root 4096 2011-07-20 06:14 usr
> drwxrwxr-x  9 root root 4096 2011-07-23 15:24 var
>
> boot:
> -rw-r--r-- 1 fooj fooj    24288 2011-08-25 17:00 MLO
> -rw-r--r-- 1 fooj fooj  5760054 2011-07-25 08:22 snap_1600x1200_0.bmp
> -rw-r--r-- 1 fooj fooj  9437238 2011-07-25 08:22 snap_2048x1536_0.bmp
> -rw-r--r-- 1 fooj fooj 15116598 2011-07-25 08:22 snap_2592x1944_0.bmp
> -rw-r--r-- 1 fooj fooj   195984 2011-08-25 17:00 u-boot.bin
> -rw-r--r-- 1 fooj fooj  2970980 2011-11-03 16:51 uImage
> -rw-r--r-- 1 fooj fooj 11827200 2011-07-25 07:59 video_320x240_0.uyvy
> -rw-r--r-- 1 fooj fooj 22732800 2011-07-25 08:00 video_640x480_0.uyvy
>
> The camera also came with a CD containing a sample application 
> (capture.elf) and a camera driver (v4l2_driver.ko)
>
> I was able to get the OveroFE/Tobi hooked up to a monitor, keyboard 
> and mouse and successfully booted to a desktop. I was also able to 
> connect to the OveroFE/Tobi through the serial USB serial port from a 
> Windows PC using PuTTY.
>
> What I have not been able to do however is get the camera to work. I 
> have tried:
>
> 1.Copying capture.elf and v4l2_driver.ko to the OveroFE and using the 
> command "insmod v4l2_driver.ko" to install the driver. This only gives 
> me an error: "v4l2_driver: disagrees about version of symbol 
> module_layout. insmod: error inserting 'v4l2_driver.ko': -1 Invalid 
> module format"
>
> 2.Creating a bootable microSD card per the instructions at gumstix.org 
> using a pre-built factor image. However, there seems to be a 
> disconnect between those instructions and the instructions for how to 
> write an image to flash (which seems to need a .ubi file instead of a 
> full directory structure)
>
> 3.Contacting econ-systems to get their help. I received this from them:
> "Please make use of factory images available in 
> http://cumulus.gumstix.org/images/angstrom/factory and try to boot the 
> gumstix board. Then replace uImage with e-con uImage, then load the 
> camera driver to complete the similar Binary setup (sdcard) provided 
> by e-con."
> I don't see how I can do this if I can't create a bootable microSD 
> card in the first place.
>
> I am hoping that someone has done this before and might be able to 
> guide me through getting this up and running.
>
> Thank you VERY much in advance for your help.
>
> Greg
>
> Greg Ericksen
> Senior Mechanical Engineer
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