On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Michael Haberler <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 7:56 AM, Michael Haberler <[email protected]
> >wrote:
> >
> >> summary: high-speed HAL I/O without extra hardware & idle main cpu on TI
> >> ARM335x omap processors
> >>
> >> Did you cross compile LinuxCNC for BeagleBone? or Did you build it
> on BeagleBone?
>
> right on the beaglebone, Ubuntu precise, but with NFS setup, which I also
> use on the Raspberry. The SD cards make nice bootroms, but performance
> building larger packages sucks
>
> The build on the beaglebone takes some 20minutes; the Raspberry on the
> same (slow) NFS server over 40 minutes.
>
> I also compiled the kernel on the bb this way, but it is an overnight
> job;) and needs a bit of swap space at the end when it generates the
> zImage; I used an USB stick.
>
> I had tried with the Angstrom distro which came with the bb, but thats too
> minimal and lacking too many packages to be viable
>
> - Michael
>

Yocto might be useful for cross building. I've tried to cross build yocto
for x86. It also supports BeagleBone. I don't have experience with Angstrom
yet.

-Yishin
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