Thanks for your feedback, very substantial stuff, I appreciate and confirms the fact that some of this is due to lack of experience with simple linux and device tree concepts.
As the amount of information is immense, I would like your pointer to the most updated information on the hardware access from ie. Python as of todays Beagleboard software. Thanks again On Friday, 19 May 2017 22:50:00 UTC+2, William Hermans wrote: > > > > On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 1:43 PM, William Hermans <yyr...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Here's the thing. Examples have already been written for the older >> beaglebones. Everything on the web right now. Be it old, or new >> documentation *will* work. Everything is still accessible from a file(in >> relation to hardware ). Only the paths for various things have changed. The >> only real difference between the beaglebone white, and the beaglebone blue. >> Is that initially, the beaglebone white used a kernel that was not device >> tree aware. With that said, the beaglebone white can use a current kernel >> as well. As if, it were "just another beaglebone", which of course, it is. >> To be sure, there are some low level hardware differences. But nothing that >> you, or I( the user ) need to concern ourselves with immediately, or ever. >> Mostly, this has to do with how the bootloaders treat the hardware when >> it's first brought up. >> > > In relation to " the only differences" . . . This is in the context of > software.. Obviously there are a few hardware differences. How one > physically connects to the outside world should be obvious. Header types, > and all that, and there is some different hardware on the board it's self. > But the processor core is exactly the same or so similar that accessing > hardware between one board and another will be the same. > > -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/87696bf4-7cdb-444a-a4e1-fd0b03ca192c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
