William, You've mentioned embest a couple of times, I'd just like to clarify that the BlueSteel board is manufactured by CircuitCo and not embest.
Scott On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 7:06 PM, William Hermans <yyrk...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
