From: Anguel <anguel.stan...@gmail.com> Reply-To: <beagleboard@googlegroups.com> Date: Friday, January 3, 2014 at 12:41 PM To: <beagleboard@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: [beagleboard] Angstrom Abandoned for BBB? Rumor + a Rant
> > > On Friday, January 3, 2014 8:03:32 PM UTC+1, John Syne wrote: >> Hi Anguel, >> >> Yes, I originally built the TI Graphics SDK and installed it on top of >> Robert¹s Debian release, but now Robert has kindly added a SGX script which I >> can confirm does the same thing. > > > Sounds good. Today I wrote Robert's Debian 7.3 image to an SD card and > successfully booted the BBB. Then I installed Debian's qt-sdk (which is Qt > 4.8.2). Qt complained that it cannot find an X Server, so I first tried to > install xserver-xfbdev (which is advertised as very lightweight) but this did > not work for some reason. Then I installed LXDE and that worked out fine. > Haven't tested thoroughly but I suspect that the 3.8.13 kernel in the Debian > 7.3 image does not have 3D accelleration. When you install SGX, you have 3D acceleration. The 3D examples are under /opt. To run the QT app, I use the platform eglfs. > > > Of course the native compilation, even at application level, takes a long time > on the BBB. And I am still not sure which is the recommended way to > cross-compile Qt apps on the BBB. > > If I have some time I will also have a look at Qt 5 with TI's Graphics SDK. I > think Qt is very important for the BBB and is required by many people. For > non-GUI tasks where fast response times are needed I still prefer a Cortex M3 > or M4 at bare-metal level :) Have you tried Xenomai? I looked at using F28M35C Concerto devices and I always seemed to run out of memory when adding all the pieces I needed such as network stack, security, etc. > > > Anguel > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
