Charles, well as you pointed out there is a positive in every situation I suppose ;) Works out fin for me in other ways as I do not plan on buying any embest / element14 branded boards anytime soon.
And yeah i got the part where they were trying to help out BB white cape people but GbE on a board with no internal storage? I don't get it, but hey I'm not going to buy one anyway so who cares what I think right ? On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 4:56 AM, Charles Steinkuehler < char...@steinkuehler.net> wrote: > On 6/17/2014 11:17 PM, William Hermans wrote: > > > > Anyway, the board sound interesting, but personally I think they went the > > wrong direction in removing the eMMC. and am pretty sure it can be > disabled > > via device tree overlays if additional IO's are needed ( which really > wont > > give you many back anyway.).HDMI on the other hand, I'd never miss. > > I suspect this board is mostly intended as an update to the original > BeagleBone White. > > Yes, you can disable eMMC on a 'Black with the cape manager, but the > system is still setup to boot from eMMC. If you want to use the eMMC > pins on a black you need to make sure they are not loaded/driven until > the system has booted, which is a pain (and many capes originally > designed for the 'White don't do this). Also, the eMMC overlaps with > the GPMC bus, which is the best/only way to get a general purpose high > speed bus off the chip to interface to something like an FPGA. Anyone > designing a system using the GMPC is required to disable the eMMC and > run from uSD anyway. > > I'm mostly hoping this pulls some of the commercial users away from > using the stock BBB, leaving more for the community. I figure there's a > reason the board has the specs it has, and I suspect it's based on who's > buying them in quantity. :) > > -- > Charles Steinkuehler > char...@steinkuehler.net > > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- 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/d/optout.
