PRUSS: No Children Error - prussdrv_open() failed

[frank brewer]

I saw others also had this problem at 4.1.x kernel as well, but seems like it is fixed with a patch. However I still get this problem, could you please help me?

debian@arm:~/test$ sudo ./testLED
prussdrv_open() failed

debian@arm:~/test$ dmesg | grep -i pru
[  209.806504] bone_capemgr bone_capemgr: part_number 'EBB-PRU-Example', version 'N/A'
[  209.806653] bone_capemgr bone_capemgr: slot #4: 'Override Board Name,00A0,Override Manuf,EBB-PRU-Example'
[  209.812435] bone_capemgr bone_capemgr: slot #4: dtbo 'EBB-PRU-Example-00A0.dtbo' loaded; overlay id #0
[  209.857210] pruss_uio 4a300000.pruss: No children

debian@arm:~/test$ lsb_release -irc

Distributor ID: Debian

Release:        8.4

Codename:       jessie

debian@arm:~/test$ uname -or

4.1.20-bone-rt-r20 GNU/Linux

debian@arm:~/chp13/ledButton$ cat $SLOTS

 0: PF----  -1

 1: PF----  -1

 2: PF----  -1

 3: PF----  -1

 4: P-O-L-   0 Override Board Name,00A0,Override Manuf,EBB-PRU-Example

debian@arm:~/chp13/ledButton$ lsmod

Module                  Size  Used by

uio_pruss               4582  0

[Le Costaouec Vincent]

Hi,
I just find out the solution.
It was because of your kernel version you have to update to the  4.1.21-bone-rt-r20
More detail on my last 2 post : https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/beagleboard/PRU|sort:date/beagleboard/5gD73Jm_Xss/4omwOtw3BQAJ

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install linux-image-4.1.21-bone-rt-r20

sudo reboot

That should work. At least I hope so ;-)

Enjoy !
Vincent

[frank brewer]

Hello Vincent,

Upgrading kernel version did not solve my problem unfortunately :/

Frank

[Le Costaouec Vincent]

Hello Frank,
May be that you could tried to change your dts to this one :
https://github.com/beagleboard/bb.org-overlays/blob/master/src/arm/BB-BONE-REPLICAP-00B1.dts

I hope that this will work

Enjoy
Vincent

[roboknight]

From what I've found, the "no children" error refers to a pruss entry in the device tree that looks like this:

fragment@1 {
          target = <&pruss>;
          __overlay__ {
                        status = "okay";
                        pinctrl-names = "default";
                        pinctrl-0 = <&your_pru_pins>;
          };
};

This used to work just fine, but now it needs to have one or more entries below pinctrl-0 describing your pins, like this:

fragment@1 {
          target = <&pruss>;
          __overlay__ {
                        status = "okay";
                        pinctrl-names = "default";
                        pinctrl-0 = <&your_pru_pins>;

                        my_pins{

                               pin-names = "name1", "name2" ... ;

                               gpios     = <&gpioX PN 0

                                            &gpioY PN 0

                                            ... >;

                       };

                       # possibly more like above
          };

};

depending on which gpio groups and PNs(pin numbers) you'd like the pruss to be associated with.

I am not sure how you specify that you don't want ANY pins though, unless you would then just not have the pinctrl entries above and only the status = "okay" line.  That is probably it, since this is how the "enable-uio-pruss" device tree file I have seems to work and gets no "no children" errors.  At any rate, this does

work on 4.9, and would likely work on 4.4 or maybe even 4.1.  I believe the code that produces this "no children" error is looking for entries like this in the device tree if you say you want some kind of pinctrl.  I did see the patch that needs to be commented out if you want your old device tree files to work, but I can't remember where it is.  I'm sure someone can point right to it.