[Elphel-support] Building firmware

[Oleg]

>
> coping files to root partition on another PC
>
You copied them then remounted the card and there are not there, right? Try
from the command line - you should get some error if they are not copied.
- Check permissions or unmount properly or run sync

boot camera off SD card and copy files over using ssh

Not copied?
If copied - it might be permissions - not executable? not owned by root?

$ scp files root at 192.168.0.9:/user/bin/
then ssh to the camera:
elphel393~# ls -all /usr/bin/

Oleg

On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 6:46 PM, Richard Rigby <rrigby at redzone.com> wrote:

> Hi Oleg,
>
> I first tried coping files to root partition on another PC, then when that
> didn't work I tried to boot camera off SD card and copy files over using
> ssh. That also didn't work.
>
> I must have build master, I will try rocko branch next.
>
> Thank you for your support.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> *Richard Rigby*
> Software Developer
>
>
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> On 22 March 2018 at 12:56, Oleg <support-list at support.elphel.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have trying to build the firmware and flash the camera however I have
>>> not been successful. I build the firmware on my machine and the used the
>>> web interface to upload the new firmware to the camera, however this
>>> bricked the camera. Do you have any advice about why this may have happened?
>>>
>>
>>    - Did you build master (= jethro) or rocko branch?  git clone -b
>>    rocko https://git.elphel.com/Elphel/elphel393.git?
>>    - I'm working with the kernel in rocko plus some application projects
>>    are on their master branches. Can break things from time to time but I
>>    recommend to build the rocko branch for the main project.
>>    - If you have a serial port up you should see at least some output
>>    from u-boot and kernel.
>>    - First try putting your built files on the recovery SD card and boot
>>    from it -
>>
>> In elphel393/tools/elphel-tools-update/ there's a write_bootable_mmc.py
>> - if you used it to write the card then copy it
>> to elphel393/bootable-images/mmc/ and run it.
>> If it boots and works - then flash it from the web interface
>>
>>    - If you boot from flash - you can only reflash u-boot, device tree
>>    and kernel, but not rootfs (cause it's mounted). To reflash rootfs - boot
>>    from the recovery card and use the web interface.
>>
>>
>>
>>> I then tried to add extra files onto the SD card, however the camera
>>> would not boot from SD card after adding extra files. Is it not possible to
>>> add files to filesystem on the SD card.
>>>
>>
>> It is possible. Did you copy files to the ROOT partition or BOOT? Serial
>> output would help.
>>
>>
>>> I would like to be able to flash the camera with custom firmware with
>>> additional services running on the camera. Will this be easy to do?
>>>
>>
>> Brief info:
>> https://wiki.elphel.com/wiki/Development_for_10393#Applications
>>
>> It needs a one time setup. Take/copy 'init' project as an example. After
>> it's set up there's an extra bitbake task to copy files to the camera - I
>> boot from SD card for development:
>>
>>> $ bitbake somerecipe -c compile -f; bitbake somerecipe -c target_scp -f
>>
>> This task requires pwdless access to the camera: ssh-copy-id
>> root at 192.168.0.9
>>
>> If some application already exists in Yocto or OE - you just need to
>> include it to the list in the elphel393/meta/meta-elphel393/
>> recipes-core/images/core-image-elphel393.bb
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Oleg Dzhimiev
>> Electronics Engineer
>> phone: +1 801 783 5555 x124 <(801)%20783-5555>
>> Elphel, Inc.
>>
>
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