BeagleLogic System Image

The BeagleLogic system image is the official way to run BeagleLogic on the BeagleBone hardware. No installation required, just flash, boot and you are ready to capture samples.

Download the image here
[Released on 2017-07-13, sha256sum = be67e3b8a21c054cd6dcae7c50e9e518492d5d1ddaa83619878afeffe59c99bd ]

Use username:”debian” and password:”temppwd” (without quotes) to log into the image.

Supported Platforms: (tested) BeagleBone Black, Seeed Studio BeagleBone Green and Seeed Studio BeagleBone Green Wireless and (currently untested) BeagleBone Black Wireless and SanCloud BeagleBone Enhanced.

Instructions

  • Use Etcher to flash the downloaded image on an SD card.
  • Insert the SD Card into the BeagleBone
  • Hold down the USER button (usually in the bottom right corner) before applying power to the BeagleBone. This is required so that the BeagleBone boots from the bootloader in the SD Card.
  • Verify BeagleLogic is running by doing ls -l /dev/beaglelogic. If BeagleLogic did not appear at /dev/beaglelogic proceed to Troubleshooting.
  • Once booted, you can then continue to make your first capture using BeagleLogic

Troubleshooting

  • Execute on a shell journalctl | grep beaglelogic

  • For BeagleLogic loading correctly, the expected output should be something like this:

    Jul 20 04:56:22 beaglebone bash[832]: beaglelogic-startup: Waiting for BeagleLogic to show up (timeout in 120 seconds)
    Jul 20 04:56:45 beaglebone beaglelogic[862]: Express server listening on port 4000
    Jul 20 04:57:05 beaglebone kernel: remoteproc remoteproc1: Booting fw image beaglelogic-pru0-fw, size 62576
    Jul 20 04:57:05 beaglebone kernel: remoteproc remoteproc2: Booting fw image beaglelogic-pru1-fw, size 31996
    Jul 20 04:57:05 beaglebone kernel: misc beaglelogic: Valid PRU capture context structure found at offset 0000
    Jul 20 04:57:05 beaglebone kernel: misc beaglelogic: BeagleLogic PRU Firmware version: 0.3
    Jul 20 04:57:05 beaglebone kernel: misc beaglelogic: Device supports max 128 vector transfers
    Jul 20 04:57:05 beaglebone kernel: misc beaglelogic: Default sample rate=50000000 Hz, sampleunit=1, triggerflags=0. Buffer in units of 4194304 bytes each
    Jul 20 04:57:05 beaglebone bash[832]: beaglelogic-startup: Configuring LA pins
    Jul 20 04:57:06 beaglebone bash[832]: beaglelogic-startup: Allocating 64MiB of logic buffer to BeagleLogic
    Jul 20 04:57:06 beaglebone kernel: misc beaglelogic: Successfully allocated 67108864 bytes of memory.
    Jul 20 04:57:06 beaglebone bash[832]: beaglelogic-startup: Loaded
    
  • If you see beaglelogic-startup: timeout. BeagleLogic couldn't load, do cat /proc/cmdline

  • If in cmdline you see bone_capemgr.uboot_capemgr_enabled=1 and BeagleLogic still did not load, please open an issue.

  • If in cmdline you do not see uboot_capemgr_enabled, then try:

    sudo -i
    echo beaglelogic > /sys/devices/platform/bone_capemgr/slots
    echo cape-universalh > /sys/devices/platform/bone_capemgr/slots
    
  • This should cause BeagleLogic to show up in the journalctl output as above.

  • Then do sudo service beaglelogic-startup restart to initialize BeagleLogic

  • If these steps do not work for you, please open an issue

Release Notes

This image release represents a major leap for BeagleLogic in general.

  • This release is based on Debian 9 [Stretch], which is the latest available stable Debian version.
  • The kernel has been upgraded from 3.8.13-bone kernel to the 4.9.36-ti-r46 release. BeagleLogic has been migrated to run on the 4.9 kernels, this needed a firmware and kernel module change. You can read more about it here
  • Root login is disabled by default for a more secure image. However root permission is now no longer required for editing the BeagleLogic sysfs attributes.
  • The underlying sigrok components have been updated to their latest release on the 13th of June 2017. This brings in support for new protocol decoders and faster protocol decoding.
  • NodeJS version has been upgraded to v6.11 . This is used by the web interface.
  • In order to load BeagleLogic, a overlay needs to be applied to the device tree that is used to boot the BeagleBone device. This is now by default applied at boot time using U-Boot’s built in cape manager support. Hence it is essential that the new version of the bootloader bundled in the SD card is used to boot the device. Which means it is important to hold down the USER button on the BeagleBone while booting the device.