Panda Board bring up

My two favorites mini board are

the Raspberry Pi using Broadcom AP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi

the Panda board using TexasInstrument OMAP AP. The later was used by Google as their reference design for Android 4.3 and used by Amazon on their Kindle Fire HD

Android 4.3 was a huge improvement compared to its predecessor because it offers for the first time the capability to have a full USB hub on the board. USB HUB means connecting tons of external devices!

How exciting it is to be able to order your own customizable Android 4.3 capable board!

In this article, I am going to explain how you can build a custom Kernel  and OS for your Panda board and bring the board to life. I assume that you have Ubuntu installed inside a Virtual machine or as a standalone OS.

The following pictures show you the things you will need for your panda board

A closer look at the board

1. If you are planning to connect USB device with RS232 capability, you should probably buy a USB to Serial adapter along with an extension cable. By default the Panda kernel has a build in RS232 driver. 
2. You will need an HDMI to DVI cable to hook up a monitor 
3. You will need a USB mouse and a USB keyboard that you should probably connect all together to a mini USB HUB to spare one USB connector for external device. 
4. You will need an 8 GB SD Card to flash the Android Image 

A Case for your Panda :)

http://omappedia.org/wiki/File:PandaCase.jpg

http://www.tigal.com/product/2723

High quality, powder coated, scratch resistant, white steel case for the PandaBoard and PandaBoard ES. The Pandaboard or Pandaboard ES can be easily mounted with just 4 screws. The case also allows for the mounting of the external WiFi/Bluetooth antenna (not included).

What is in the case box:

1. White case
2. Mounting screws
3. Aluminium feet
4. Purchased: TIGAL

A wireless keyboard for your Panda

More accesories

http://pandaboard.org/content/resources/Accessories

Update Repo

$ cd ~/

$ curl http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > ~/bin/repo

$ chmod a+x ~/bin/repo

edit ~/.bashrc and add path to ~/bin

Download files

$ cd /usr/local/cross/

$ mkdir android-4.3

$ repo init -u https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest -b android-4.3_r2.1

$ repo sync

if you were using sudo to execute repo make sure you change the permission of all files

recursively

chown -R android:android *

$ cd /usr/local/cross/android-4.3

Setup build environment

 Install JAVA if you don't have it

Installing Sun Java on Newer versions of Ubuntu (10.04 an above)

Open the terminal and type the following:

$sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java

$sudo apt-get update  

$sudo apt-get upgrade  

$sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer

That should install the Sun Java version on your system. To change to it simply do the following in case you have other java alternatives:

$sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-7-oracle 

If you want the installation to be automatic type the following:

sudo echo oracle-java7-installer shared/accepted-oracle-license-v1-1 select true | sudo /usr/bin/debconf-set-selections

after that simply do the following to set the default environment variables:

$sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-set-default

Install the Oracle JDK 6 required to build Android 4.3

Oracle themselves have the official guide to install their JDK - below is based upon those instructions.

·         Download the 32bit or 64bit Linux "compressed binary file" - it has a ".bin" file extension

·         Give it permissions to execute and extract it

chmod a+x [version]-linux-i586.bin

./[version]-linux-i586.bin

During installation it will ask you to register - press ENTER. Firefox will open with the registration page. Registration is optional.

JDK 6 package is extracted into ./jdk1.6.0_x directory, for example ./jdk1.6.0_30.

Lets rename it:

mv jdk1.6.0_30 java-6-oracle

·         Now move the JDK 6 directory to /usr/lib

sudo mkdir /usr/lib/jvm

sudo mv java-6-oracle /usr/lib/jvm

switch to Oracle JDK 6

webupd8.googlecode.com hosts a nice-easy script to help with this.

wget http://webupd8.googlecode.com/files/update-java-0.5b

chmod +x update-java-0.5b

sudo ./update-java-0.5b

don't worry - 0.5b refers to the script version - not the version of java!

An alternative to this is to use the webupd8 ppa and the update-java package.

Finally test the switch has been successful:

java -version

javac -version

These should display the oracle version installed - 1.6.0_30

or

run this command, which lets you choose which Java installation to make the default:

sudo update-alternatives --config java

$ source build/envsetup.sh

$ lunch 

You're building on Linux

Lunch menu... pick a combo:

1. aosp_arm-eng

2. aosp_x86-eng

3. aosp_mips-eng

4. vbox_x86-eng

5. aosp_flo-userdebug

6. full_grouper-userdebug

7. full_tilapia-userdebug

8. mini_armv7a_neon-userdebug

9. mini_mips-userdebug

10. mini_x86-userdebug

11. full_mako-userdebug

12. full_maguro-userdebug

13. full_manta-userdebug

14. full_arndale-userdebug

15. full_toroplus-userdebug

16. full_toro-userdebug

17. full_panda-userdebug

Which would you like? [aosp_arm-eng] 17

PLATFORM_VERSION_CODENAME=REL

PLATFORM_VERSION=4.3

TARGET_PRODUCT=full_panda

TARGET_BUILD_VARIANT=userdebug

TARGET_BUILD_TYPE=release

TARGET_BUILD_APPS=

TARGET_ARCH=arm

TARGET_ARCH_VARIANT=armv7-a-neon

TARGET_CPU_VARIANT=cortex-a9

HOST_ARCH=x86

HOST_OS=linux

HOST_OS_EXTRA=Linux-3.2.0-56-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-12.04-precise

HOST_BUILD_TYPE=release

BUILD_ID=JSS15J

OUT_DIR=out

By default for panda the kernel is located under /usr/local/cross/android-4.3/device/ti/panda/

panda

device/ti/panda/kernel

kernel/omap

panda_defconfig

Patch vendor specific files. Graphic drivers

Download driver from https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/drivers

You can find it with searching "Pandaboard" in the page. Pick the latest patch usually at the bottom

cd /usr/local/cross/android-4.3

$ tar -xzvf imgtec-panda-20130603-539d1ac3.tgz

$ ./extract-imgtec-panda.sh

Board Setup

Power supply

Mini-USB to the PC

USB keyboard and mouse

(optional) Ethernet, on a network that supports DHCP

HDMI-to-DVI-D on the P1 DVI-D connector

# Initial setup, part 1: build fastboot

make fastboot

Install: out/host/linux-x86/bin/fastboot

/usr/local/cross/android-4.3out/host/linux-x86/bin/fastboot

Building the Kernel

Follow the AOSP kernel build instruction to download Android kernel source code for pandaboard at http://source.android.com/source/building-kernels.html

$ANDROID_BUILD_TOP is an export variable pointing to /usr/local/cross/android-4.3

$ mv /usr/local/cross/android-4.3/device/ti/panda /usr/local/cross/android-4.3/device/ti/panda.old

$ cd /usr/local/cross/android-4.3/device/ti

$ git clone https://android.googlesource.com/device/ti/panda

$ cd panda

$ git log --max-count=1 kernel

commit 224d695ed9e09c32479b63412eb345e78c2b4349

Author: Jean-Baptiste Queru

Date:   Mon Dec 3 18:57:54 2012 -0800

    New PandaBoard kernel

    

    Built from kernel cb5fc502c60be9305c5a007be335e860d9e7c0cb

    

    cb5fc50 Revert "I2C: OMAP: correct SYSC register offset for OMAP4"

    623520a ARM:Panda: Add TI ST HCI flag

    582ab23 Bluetooth: Add tty HCI driver

    

    Change-Id: Ib3d6b2c809f0f88586455c4056f92511a845c70b

The commit message for the kernel binary contains a partial git log of the kernel sources that were used to build the binary in question. The first entry commit 224d695ed9e09c32479b63412eb345e78c2b4349 in the log is the most recent, i.e. the one used to build that kernel. You will need it at a later step unless you want to use a different kernel

Identifying kernel version

---

To determine the kernel version used in a particular system image, run the following command against the kernel file by creating a small kernel_version.sh file with the following command:

cd /usr/local/cross/android-4.3/device/ti/panda/

$ dd if=kernel bs=1 skip=$(LC_ALL=C grep -a -b -o $'\x1f\x8b\x08\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00'

android@U64:/usr/local/cross/android-4.3/device/ti/panda$ ./kernel_version.sh 

Linux version 3.0.31-gcb5fc50 (jbq@jqueru.mtv.corp.google.com) (gcc version 4.6.x-google 20120106 (prerelease) (GCC) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Dec 3 18:52:22 PST 2012

3676700+0 records in

3676700+0 records out

3676700 bytes (3.7 MB) copied, 12.4303 s, 296 kB/s

android@U64:/usr/local/cross/android-4.3/device/ti/panda$

Downloading sources

---

Depending on which kernel you want,

$ git clone https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/omap.git

this will create sub folder /usr/local/cross/android-4.3/device/ti/panda/omap but the folder will appear empty. This is expected

Downloading a prebuilt gcc

---

Ensure that the prebuilt toolchain is in your path.

$ export PATH=$(pwd)/prebuilts/gcc/linux-x86/arm/arm-eabi-4.6/bin:$PATH

or

On a linux host, if you don't have an Android source tree, you can download the prebuilt toolchain from:

$ cd /usr/local/cross

$ mkdir androidtoolchain

$ cd androidtoolchain

$ git clone https://android.googlesource.com/platform/prebuilts/gcc/linux-x86/arm/arm-eabi-4

In my case I decided to get the toolchain under under /usr/local/cross/androidtoolchain/ for the purpose of building the panda kernel

Building

---

As an example, we would build the panda kernel using the following commands:

$ export ARCH=arm

$ export SUBARCH=arm

$ export CROSS_COMPILE=arm-eabi-

$ cd omap

$ git checkout cb5fc502c60be9305c5a007be335e860d9e7c0cb

if you were using sudo to execute repo make sure you change the permission of all files

recursively because the environment variable for the toolchain rely on the local user not super user

chown -R android:android * 

or use a different experimental kernel branch at your own risk :)

android@U64:/usr/local/cross/android-4.3/device/ti/panda/omap$ git branch -r

  origin/HEAD -> origin/master

  origin/android-omap-3.0

  origin/android-omap-panda-3.0

  origin/android-omap-steelhead-3.0-ics-aah

  origin/android-omap-tuna-3.0

  origin/android-omap-tuna-3.0-ics-mr1

  origin/android-omap-tuna-3.0-jb-mr0

  origin/android-omap-tuna-3.0-jb-mr1

  origin/android-omap-tuna-3.0-jb-mr1.1

  origin/android-omap-tuna-3.0-jb-mr2

  origin/android-omap-tuna-3.0-jb-pre1

  origin/android-omap-tuna-3.0-mr0

  origin/android-omap-tuna-3.0-mr0.1

  origin/glass-omap-xrr02

  origin/glass-omap-xrr35

  origin/glass-omap-xrr64b

  origin/glass-omap-xrr88

  origin/glass-omap-xrs36

  origin/glass-omap-xrs68

  origin/glass-omap-xrs92

  origin/glass-omap-xrt35

  origin/linux-omap-3.0

  origin/master

  origin/sph-l700-fh05

android@U64:/usr/local/cross/android-4.3/device/ti/panda/omap$

android@U64:/usr/local/cross/android-4.3/device/ti/panda/omap$git checkout

remotes/origin/android-omap-panda-3.0

Edit before building

Add CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_CP210X=y at the end of :/usr/local/cross/android-4.3/device/ti/panda/omap/arch/arm/configs/panda_defconfig

android@U64:/usr/local/cross/android-4.3/device/ti/panda/omap$vi arch/arm/configs/panda_defconfig 

CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_CP210X=y 

Increase system image partition size

/usr/local/cross/android-4.3/device/ti/panda/BoardConfig.mk

BOARD_SYSTEMIMAGE_PARTITION_SIZE := 300000000 #BOARD_SYSTEMIMAGE_PARTITION_SIZE := 268435456

$ cd /usr/local/cross/android-4.3/device/ti/panda/omap/

$ make panda_defconfig

$ make

The kernel binary is output as: `arch/arm/boot/zImage` It can be copied into the Android source tree in order to build the matching boot image.

Or you can include the TARGET_PREBUILT_KERNEL variable while using make bootimage or any other make command line that builds a boot image.

$ export TARGET_PREBUILT_KERNEL=/usr/local/cross/android-4.3/device/ti/panda/omap/arch/arm/boot/zImage

That variable is supported by all devices as it is set up via device/common/populate-new-device.sh

Add adb TCP Capability

Add the following line  setprop service.adb.tcp.port 5555 to /usr/local/cross/android-4.3/device/ti/panda/init.omap4pandaboard.usb.rc just after  on property:sys.usb.config=adb

on property:sys.usb.config=adb

    setprop service.adb.tcp.port 5555

    write /sys/class/android_usb/android0/enable 0

    write /sys/class/android_usb/android0/idVendor 0451

    write /sys/class/android_usb/android0/idProduct D101

    write /sys/class/android_usb/android0/functions ${sys.usb.config}

    write /sys/class/android_usb/android0/enable 1

    setprop sys.usb.state ${sys.usb.config}

Edit init.rc if you want to start some services you wrote :) or give permission to specific folders or binary on the device

/usr/local/cross/android-4.3/device/ti/panda/init.omap4pandaboard.rc

Not a bad idea to patch any framework specific files

Start the build

use usbboot to push the boot loader

https://github.com/swetland/omap4boot

USB downloader and USB second stage bootloader for OMAP44xx

===========================================================

aboot.bin

---------

aboot.bin is a designed to be a second stage USB bootloader (what TI calls x-loader) for the USB peripheral boot mode of OMAP44xx. Currently it's somewhat pandaboard-centric, but that should be

easy enough to clean up -- it shouldn't touch any gpiomux config except (maybe) for the UART.

All it does is send a u32 message (0xaabbccdd) back over the USB link, then reads a u32 size from the host. Then it downloads size bytes  from the host to 0x82000000 and jumps to that address.

usbboot

-------

usage: usbboot <2ndstage> [  ]
- usbboot will poll every 250ms until it locates an OMAP device
(VID 0451, PID d00f)
- it then will send the 2ndstage binary to the device
- if an image was also provided, it will wait for the 2ndstage to
send the go-ahead response (0xaabbccdd) and then send that image

Fastboot USB driver for Panda

Go to http://source.android.com/source/initializing.html

and create /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules file replace owner with the current user (build user) in my case android

sudo chmod 644 /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules

cd /usr/local/cross/android-4.3

# Initial setup, part 2:

# With no SD card inserted, plug USB first, then the power cord,

# and load fastboot over USB:

device/ti/panda/usbboot device/ti/panda/bootloader.bin

#if you have issue connecting to the device run usbboot using sudo :)

# Initial setup, part 3:

fastboot

fastboot is the command line utility that flashes Android to a device. As mentioned earlier, the Linux build offastboot from source under out/host/linux-x86/bin under /usr/local/cross/android-4.3. Android SDK /usr/local/cross/android-4.3_r2.1/out/host/linux-x86/bin/fastboot for Windows ships with fastboot under platform-tools folder. You can  continue the rest of the fastboot procedure using the Windows binary, instead of using the one built by the AOSP build. 

You’ll need to copy all image files built by make under out/target/product/panda to the Windows host and run the following commands from the Windows command prompt. Change ANDROID_SDK_PATH appropriately. 

Windows:

set ANDROID_SDK_PATH=C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Android\android-sdk

%ANDROID_SDK_PATH%\platform-tools\fastboot.exe oem format
%ANDROID_SDK_PATH%\platform-tools\fastboot.exe flash xloader xloader.bin

%ANDROID_SDK_PATH%\platform-tools\fastboot.exe flash bootloader bootloader.bin

# Once in fastboot, insert and initialize an SD card (4GB or greater):

#if you want to have a different partition for the /sdcard inside the image on the SDCARD :) please follow step 7 of Repartition Sdcard section

Modify  $ANDROID_BUILD_TOP/device/ti/panda/fstab.omap4pandaboard to mount partition 8 at boot time. 

/usr/local/cross/android-4.3/out/host/linux-x86/bin/fastboot oem format

root@Latitude-E4310:/usr/local/cross/android-4.3_r2.1$ out/host/linux-x86/bin/fastboot oem format
...
OKAY [  0.389s]

finished. total time: 0.406s

/usr/local/cross/android-4.3/out/host/linux-x86/bin/fastboot flash xloader device/ti/panda/xloader.bin

root@Latitude-E4310:/usr/local/cross/android-4.3_r2.1$ out/host/linux-x86/bin/fastboot flash xloader device/ti/panda/xloader.bin 
sending 'xloader' (23 KB)...
OKAY [  0.006s]
writing 'xloader'...
OKAY [  0.239s]

finished. total time: 0.245s

/usr/local/cross/android-4.3/out/host/linux-x86/bin/fastboot flash bootloader device/ti/panda/bootloader.bin

root@Latitude-E4310:/usr/local/cross/android-4.3_r2.1$ out/host/linux-x86/bin/fastboot flash bootloader device/ti/panda/bootloader.bin 
sending 'bootloader' (161 KB)...
OKAY [  0.017s]
writing 'bootloader'...
OKAY [  0.295s]

finished. total time: 0.312s

# Build and flash, part 1: Do a build

source build/envsetup.sh

#remove backup or movide it to ~ just in case you want to revert to default :)

rm -rf /usr/local/cross/android-4.3/device/ti/panda.old

or

mv  /usr/local/cross/android-4.3/device/ti/panda.old ~/panda/

lunch full_panda-userdebug

time make -j4

# Build and flash, part 2: Flash

# Reboot into the SD card's fastboot (hold GPIO_121 and press PWRON_RESET)

# and flash the system or use usbboot to boot into fastbootmode

fastboot erase cache

root@Latitude-E4310:/usr/local/cross/android-4.3_r2.1/out/target/product/panda$ /usr/local/cross/android-4.3_r2.1/out/host/linux-x86/bin/fastboot erase cache
erasing 'cache'...
OKAY [102.415s]

finished. total time: 102.415s

fastboot flash userdata

root@Latitude-E4310:/usr/local/cross/android-4.3_r2.1/out/target/product/panda$ /usr/local/cross/android-4.3_r2.1/out/host/linux-x86/bin/fastboot flash userdata
sending 'userdata' (10432 KB)...
OKAY [  0.632s]
writing 'userdata'...
OKAY [  4.563s]

finished. total time: 5.196s

fastboot flashall

root@Latitude-E4310:/usr/local/cross/android-4.3_r2.1/out/target/product/panda$ /usr/local/cross/android-4.3_r2.1/out/host/linux-x86/bin/fastboot flashall
--------------------------------------------
Bootloader Version...: U-Boot 1.1.4-gedeced79
Baseband Version.....: 
Serial Number........: 52FC000200000001
--------------------------------------------
checking product...
OKAY [  0.001s]
sending 'boot' (3846 KB)...
OKAY [  0.235s]
writing 'boot'...
OKAY [  2.303s]
sending 'recovery' (4384 KB)...
OKAY [  0.267s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [  2.844s]
sending 'system' (186367 KB)...
OKAY [ 11.277s]
writing 'system'...
OKAY [ 69.094s]
rebooting...


finished. total time: 86.030s

Windows:

%ANDROID_SDK_PATH%\platform-tools\fastboot.exe erase cache

%ANDROID_SDK_PATH%\platform-tools\fastboot.exe -p panda flash userdata userdata.img

%ANDROID_SDK_PATH%\platform-tools\fastboot.exe -p panda flash boot boot.img

%ANDROID_SDK_PATH%\platform-tools\fastboot.exe -p panda flash system system.img

%ANDROID_SDK_PATH%\platform-tools\fastboot.exe -p panda flash recovery recovery.img

%ANDROID_SDK_PATH%\platform-tools\fastboot.exe -p panda flash cache cache.img

The flashall option of fastboot fails as follows, hence the need to flash image files individually.

%ANDROID_SDK_PATH%\platform-tools\fastboot.exe -p panda flashall

error: could not load android-info.txt: No error

At this point you can reset the PandaBoard so that it loads Android!

To boot into fastboot mode ever again, hold the GPIO_121 button (furthest button from sd card) and press and release the PWRON_RESET button. Release the GPIO_121 button after a while.

# Post-boot setup, part 1: Set the date on the board:

adb shell date $(date +%s)

# Post-boot setup, part 2: (optional) Configure Ethernet

adb shell dhcpcd eth0

ADB over USB

Android Gadget ADB: Linux PC Host

Sequence:

1. Boot the Android kernel with g_android built in and 'Android gadget adb' function selected

2. Connect one end of the cable to the MUSB port on the target and the other to the Linux HOST machine;

3. On the left hand top corner of the Android UI screen you should see a ‘USB Attached’ Notification.

4. Make sure on the target 'USB Debugging' is selected:

-On Android UI,

-Press F1 key,

-Goto Notifications

-Select USB debugging

5. To make ADB work for TI vendor ID, On your Host machine create the following file (if not already present):

$ sudo su

$ mkdir ~/.android

$ vi ~/.android/adb_usb.ini

$ echo "0x0451" > ~/.android/adb_usb.ini

$ cat /root/.android/adb_usb.ini

  0x0451

6. Mount the 'usbfs' filesystem on the Linux Host Machine (Note: optional step, ignore if usbfs is not present in Ubuntu 10.10)

$ sudo mount -t usbfs none /proc/bus/usb

7. Also, on the Host make sure adb server is running:

$ sudo su

$ cd /mydroid/out/host/linux-x86/bin

$ ./adb kill-server

$ ./adb start-server

8. Verify that the gadget enumerated properly on the host (Linux PC) by running: (Note: optional step, ignore if usbfs is not present in Ubuntu 10.10)

$ cat  /proc/bus/usb/devices | grep “usbfs”

9. Now check that the device is connected:

$ cd /mydroid/out/host/linux-x86/bin

$ ./adb devices

[output should be something like this] List of devices attached [serial number] device

$ ./adb shell

[This should take you to the console prompt of the board] to quit, type exit. 10. Write a file in to the FS on board:

$ ./adb push /file ./

[This will transfer 'file' in to the / of the FS on the board, check using 'ls' on the console prompt of the board] 11. Read a file from the FS on board into the Host machine

$ ./adb pull ./file /dir/

[This will copy 'file' from the FS into the Host machine]

NOTE: You can use locally built version that should just work on your boxes without the extra configurations.

 ADB Binary is here

NOTE: These instructions assume that you will always be running ADB operations in super user mode. To run ADB over USB as your normal user, create/edit adb_usb.ini in your home directory instead i.e step 5 would look this:

$ mkdir -p ~/.android

$ echo "0x0451" > ~/.android/adb_usb.ini

$ cat ~/.android/adb_usb.ini

  0x0451

However, you will have to start adb in sudo mode.

$ sudo /mydroid/out/host/linux-x86/bin/adb kill-server

$ sudo /mydroid/out/host/linux-x86/bin/adb devices

* daemon not running. starting it now *

* daemon started successfully *

List of devices attached

686A00011FF00000        device

Android Gadget ADB: Windows PC Host

Sequence:

1. On windows Host, Download latest Android SDK (http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html), the installer version is recommended.

2. At the end of the installation select the option "Start SDK Manager".

3. If you are behind a firewall you'll need to go to Tools -> Options of the SDK Manager to enter your proxy info. Go to Packages -> Reload if you enter proxy info.

4. At a minimum install the following packages:

§  Tools -> Android SDK Platform-tools

§  Extras -> Google USB Driver

Note: If "Google USB Driver" doesn't show up initially then install the platform-tools, close SDK Manager, and open SDK-manager.

5. Optionally, you may want to add the location of the SDK's primary tools directory to your system PATH. Right-click on My Computer, and select Properties. Under the Advanced tab, hit the Environment Variables button, and in the dialog that comes up, double-click on Path (under System Variables). Add the full path to the tools\ directory to the path.

6. Create a file "%USERPROFILE%\.android\adb_usb.ini":

> echo 0x0451 > "%USERPROFILE%\.android\adb_usb.ini"

> type "%USERPROFILE%\.android\adb_usb.ini"

0x0451

7. Edit android_winusb.inf (found in C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\extras\google\usb_driver on a Windows XP installation) to match TI vendor ID and USB Gadgets product ID's:

§  Under [Google.NTx86] section if you are running 32bits Windows edition, or under [Google.NTamd64] section for 64bits Windows, add these lines and save the file:

; OMAP-3/4

%SingleAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_0451&PID_D101

%CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_0451&PID_D102&MI_01

%CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_0451&PID_D106&MI_02

%CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_0451&PID_D107&MI_03

%SingleAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_0451&PID_FFFFE

%CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_0451&PID_FFFE&MI_01

%SingleAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_0451&PID_D022

%CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_0451&PID_D022&MI_01

%CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_0451&PID_D10A&MI_01

; OMAP-3 / 4 - ICS

%CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_0451&PID_D109&MI_01

8. Boot the Android kernel with g_android built in and 'Android gadget adb' function selected

9. Connect micro-B USB cable between Blaze board and Windows PC.

10. Windows should pop up a driver installation dialog

§  Choose "install from a specific location"

§  Point to C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\extras\google\usb_driver

11. Once the driver is installed, the device should appear in the Device Manager as shown:

12. Open command prompt and restart adb server just to make sure it is in a proper state:

$ adb kill-server

$ adb start-server

$ adb devices

[output should be something like this]

13. Write a file in to the FS on board:

$ adb push /file ./

[This will transfer 'file' in to the / of the FS on the board, check using 'ls' on the console prompt of the board]

14. Read a file from the FS on board into the Host machine

$ adb pull ./file /dir/

[This will copy 'file' from the FS into the Host machine]

Repartition SDCARD

There are 7 partitions on sdcard after installing Android 4.3 to Pandaboard. The 7th partition is "userdata". Once system is up and running, the userdata partition is mounted at /data. However, it only shows as 512MB instead of 6.232GB - the actual partition size. In order to use the remaining sdcard storage and avoid crashing Android by filling up /data partition. We need to repartition sdcard to create one more partition to use as a sdcard.

The following is the steps to repartition sdcard.

1.    insert sdcard to a PC running Linux (make sure GNU "parted" is installed)

2.    find out the sdcard device by using dmesg; this case /dev/sdc is the sdcard:

a.    [15190300.217921] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] 15564800 512-byte logical blocks: (7.96 GB/7.42 GiB)

[15190300.219513] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page present

[15190300.219518] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through

[15190300.222131] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page present

[15190300.222136] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through

[15190300.234635] sdc: sdc1 sdc2 sdc3 sdc4 sdc5 sdc6 sdc7 sdc8

3.    become root and run the following commands to repartition sdcard; make sure you replace /dev/sdc with the actual device:

a.    parted /dev/sdc rm 7

b.    parted /dev/sdc print

make sure you note the beginning of the last End segment to begin the Start segment for your next(s) partition(s) and that you use the size for the new partition equal to 

Disk /dev/sdc: 7969MB (for a 8 GB SDCARD) - Start value of partition 7 which is end of partition 6

c.     parted /dev/sdc mkpart userdata ext4 823 1335

parted /dev/sdc mkpart sdcard ext4 1335 7146

parted /dev/sdc print

mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sdc7

mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sdc8

4.    remove the sdcard and insert it into Pandaboard

5.    boot Pandaboard - it may take sometime to initialize the system since we wipe out /data

6.    The new partition is mounted at /storage/sdcard0

7.    You have modified  $ANDROID_BUILD_TOP/device/ti/panda/fstab.omap4pandaboard to mount partition 8 at boot time. 

14a15

> /dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/by-name/sdcard /storage/sdcard0 ext4 defaults defaults

Note: the "parted" command may complain about GPT corruption; ignore it and enter "OK" to continue. If asked for partition number, enter "7" for partition 7 (we remove partition 7).

Unpacking and repacking boot.img when changing init.rc

The Android root filesystem is not modifiable from adb because it is recreated from boot.img everytime system is restarted. To modify init.rc, the boot.img must be unpacked to extract files and directories and then repacked to be flashed to device.

Pandaboard sdcard is divided into 7 or 8 (See Repartition sdcard) partitions. The boot.img is is the 4th partition. If /dev/sdc is the sdcard, /dev/sdc4 is the boot partition. Issue the following command to retrieve boot.img from /dev/sdc4:

dd if=/dev/sdc4 bs=16k of=boot.img

The following perlscript can be used to unpack and repack boot.img.

To unpack, issue the following command:

unpack-bootimg.pl boot.img

This will create several files and directory:

-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 8388608 Nov 19 14:50 boot.img

-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 5115904 Nov 19 14:50 boot.img-kernel.gz

drwxr-xr-x. 8 root root 4096 Nov 19 14:52 boot.img-ramdisk

-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 3270656 Nov 19 14:50 boot.img-ramdisk.cpio.gz

The init.rc files are in boot.img-ramdisk directory.

To repack, issue the following command:

repack-bootimg.pl boot.img-kernel.gz boot.img-ramdisk boot2.img

The boot2.img is the newly created boot.img and can be flashed to device.

dd if=boot2.img bs=16k of=/dev/sdc4

Note:

1. dd command can also be used to make a copy of sdcard to local filesystem; the following command creates a device image of the same size as the SD card(e.g. 8GB):

dd if=/dev/sdc bs=16k of=pandaboard_device_android-4.3.img

2. WLAN group uses Linaro Android distribution, which specifies custom kernel address at 0x80000000. The repack perl script should be modified to add "--base 0x80000000" to mkbootimg argument. Otherwise, pandaboard will enter infinite loop in loading kernel.