Re: [beagleboard] Debian 3.14 Kernel Complication Walkthrough

2015-03-27 Thread pietersydneytheron
Hi Robert. I followed your instructions and got to the point where I run sudo dpkg -i linux-image*. Under /boot I see these files successfully unpacked: root@beaglebone:/boot# ls System.map-3.14.35ti-r55 initrd.img-3.14.35ti-r55 vmlinuz-3.14.35ti-r55 config-3.14.35ti-r55

[beagleboard] Re: programming BBB - choice of language

2015-03-10 Thread pietersydneytheron
Look at Golang.org I just finished a html5 webserver running on the BBB built in Golang and cross compiled from Ubuntu for ARM. The performance gains with Golang's concurrency model is huge and it's rather new with many functional improvements over C/C++. It's easy to pick-up and get going

[beagleboard] Debian 3.14 Kernel DTC

2015-03-08 Thread pietersydneytheron
I'm using the https://github.com/beagleboard/linux https://github.com/beagleboard/linux/tags 3.14.34-ti-r53 branch to compile a kernel: When I use the dts compiler apt-get install Device-Tree-Compiler running dtc -I dtb -O dts -o custom.dts custom.dtb the compiler complains with error

[beagleboard] Re: BBB: Serial Wiring For External Device Over UART1

2015-03-06 Thread pietersydneytheron
Hi All. Thanks for the replies. I managed to get it working with your help: 1. Make sure RX on serial device points to UARTX TX and TX on serial device points to UARTX RX. 2. nano /boot/uboot/uEnv.txt add optargs=capemgr.enable_partno=BB-UART1 or alternatively add a systemd service (I'm

Re: [beagleboard] Debian 3.14 Kernel Complication Walkthrough

2015-03-06 Thread pietersydneytheron
Hi Robert. Thanks for the guid. I have everything working up to the point where we compile the deb. sudo make ARCH=arm KBUILD_DEBARCH=armhf LOCALVERSION=-ti-r53 CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf- KDEB_PKGVERSION=1cross deb-pkg *make: *** No rule to make target `deb-pkg'. Stop.* Any advice

[beagleboard] BBB: Serial Wiring For External Device Over UART1

2014-11-25 Thread pietersydneytheron
I've been trying to attach a serial device to the beaglebone black and communicating with it over UART 1 (p9_24 and p9_26) with no success. In part because I am new to linux and have no idea how to ping/check connected devices over terminal and NO prior electronic knowledge to insure the