Re: Small distros (was: [beagleboard] debian testing: 2015-01-19)

2015-01-22 Thread Rick Mann
I think we're talking at cross purposes here. I just want a BBB that boots very fast. Secondarily, I want to maximize space on the eMMC for content. Thirdly, I'd prefer to do builds on a host computer, not on the BBB. It's slow, and requires a bunch more stuff to be installed on it. I just need

Re: Small distros (was: [beagleboard] debian testing: 2015-01-19)

2015-01-22 Thread William Hermans
> > *I definitely don't need NFS, nor really the ability to build packages on > the BBB. In fact, I'd love to get to where I'm cross-compiling everything, > and building a tarball I can easily transfer over. Eventually, I want my > app to be able to update itself, if not the entire filesystem.* >

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Wierd Power Problem

2015-01-22 Thread evilwulfie
Well in your application you would need another small CPU monitoring power and issuing a reset upon power good there is a battery cape that does just that. I have a design that does that for my design using a BBB. http://andicelabs.com/beaglebone-powercape/ something i noticed in testing for my des

[beagleboard] Re: BBB SPI: 6 cs signals needed

2015-01-22 Thread janszymanski12345
http://www.nagavenkat.adurthi.com/?p=479 On Friday, 23 January 2015 06:18:05 UTC+11, codemonkey wrote: > > Hello, I need to address six devices on a single spi bus, and I'm hoping > to avoid writing a device driver :-) > > We will be updating from 3.8.13-bone68 as soon as there is a stable > re

RE: [beagleboard] Re: Wierd Power Problem

2015-01-22 Thread William Pretty Security
Thanks DLF; I should have been more clear. I am feeding power into the Beaglebone via P9 but I could switch to the barrel connector fairly easily. Bill "No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little." "All that is necessary for the tri

[beagleboard] Re: Wierd Power Problem

2015-01-22 Thread DLF
Hello I assume you are using the barrel connector. Could you use the USB connector to provide power? I find a different result on my BBB if I use the USB vs the barrel. or perhaps I don't fully understand your issues ??? cheers On Friday, 23 January 2015 00:16:08 UTC+1, William Pretty Secu

[beagleboard] Wierd Power Problem

2015-01-22 Thread William Pretty Security
Hello List: I have a problem that I didn't anticipate. I have an embedded system with battery backup. Actually it runs off of the battery and external supply keeps the battery charged. Here is my problem: I can use the power button/signal to power the unit down, but how do I get it t

Re: Small distros (was: [beagleboard] debian testing: 2015-01-19)

2015-01-22 Thread Graham
Rick: You are building a tube radio simulator Get some Orange LEDs and put them in the box under dimmer control. Tell them the "boot delay" is the filaments warming up. Why do you need 1 second? :-) I time a BBB Rev C, booting off a uSD card with Debian 7.7 Console up and running in 20 seconds.

[beagleboard] Re: Regarding Cortex M3 PM

2015-01-22 Thread janszymanski12345
IT E2E community might be helpfull http://e2e.ti.com/support/microcontrollers/ On Wednesday, January 21, 2015 at 3:19:02 PM UTC+11, Satya wrote: > > I had started working over my BBB and realized that my AM33XX integrates > a Cortex-M3 core to manage the entry/exit of various standy-by and > d

Re: [beagleboard] BeagleBone Debian boot time (IPV6, ethernet..)

2015-01-22 Thread Robert Nelson
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Boris Ostrovskiy wrote: > It takes my beaglebone ~70seconds to fully boot. Looking at "dmesg" it seems > like most of that time is spent setting up / loading network functionality. > I do need the ethernet connection but is there a way to speed up the > process...?

[beagleboard] BeagleBone Debian boot time (IPV6, ethernet..)

2015-01-22 Thread Boris Ostrovskiy
It takes my beaglebone ~70seconds to fully boot. Looking at "dmesg" it seems like most of that time is spent setting up / loading network functionality. I do need the ethernet connection but is there a way to speed up the process...? root@beaglebone:~# dmesg [0.00] Booting Linux on ph

Re: Small distros (was: [beagleboard] debian testing: 2015-01-19)

2015-01-22 Thread Rick Mann
> On Jan 22, 2015, at 07:25 , William Hermans wrote: > >> I would like to talk more. I've seen some presentations and demos of Linux >> booting in under a second. That's my primary goal. Secondary is maximizing >> the free space on the eMMC for content (in my case, MP3 files). I haven't >> re

RE: [beagleboard] Anyopne using Bitscope

2015-01-22 Thread William Pretty Security
It’s on my To-Do list J "No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little." "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing" Edmond Burke (1729 - 1797) http://www.packtpub.com/building-a-home-security-system-with-beagle

Re: [beagleboard] BBB EEPROM details

2015-01-22 Thread Robert Nelson
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 5:05 PM, wrote: > Thanks for the info. You have been much help. > > I checked mdio:00 and 01. 00 is there and has same SMSC info, 01 is not used > so I assume this is normal message and can safely ignore. Correct, mdio:01 is safe to ignore unless you physically installed

Re: [beagleboard] Is there a way to prevent BBB to startup automatically when plugged into USB

2015-01-22 Thread Robert Nelson
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 2:20 AM, wrote: > I keep my BBB plugged into USB but I don't want it to start every time the > PC starts. > How can I do that? Unplug the usb cable? usb provides power Regards, -- Robert Nelson http://www.rcn-ee.com/ -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard

Re: [beagleboard] HDMI signal filtering on page 10 (BBB schematics)

2015-01-22 Thread Gerald Coley
Well, it works. Remember, these signals are 3.3V and the threshold on the HDMI chip is for a 1.8V rail. Feel free to try the series resistors if you like. Gerald On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 3:58 PM, wojtekskulski via BeagleBoard < beagleboard@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Gerald: > thank you for the

Re: [beagleboard] Contamination, SD or eMMC, Root Cause

2015-01-22 Thread Gerald Coley
Most common is powering off the board without mounting the drives under Linux. Gerald On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 3:00 PM, wrote: > Please reference paragraph 5.10 on p37 of BBB SRM. > > Does memory device contamination occur due to open files in the Linux OS, > or due to improperly sequenced powe

Re: [beagleboard] BBB EEPROM details

2015-01-22 Thread wlnwtz
Thanks for the info. You have been much help. I checked mdio:00 and 01. 00 is there and has same SMSC info, 01 is not used so I assume this is normal message and can safely ignore. On Wednesday, January 21, 2015 at 3:03:33 PM UTC-6, RobertCNelson wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 2:36 PM, > w

[beagleboard] Anyopne using Bitscope

2015-01-22 Thread Fred Patrick
Is anyone using the Bitscope Micro model 5 or Bitscope BS10 on Beaglebone Black projects? I am not parcularly interested in running the software on the Beaglebone but rather connecting to a Mac and using the Bitscope to analyse breadboard circuits. Thanks -- For more options, visit http://beag

[beagleboard] Change the VID/PID for the client USB port

2015-01-22 Thread james . farr623
We would like to use the BBB as part of a prototype for a product re-design. We will need the BBB to be a client device. I have not yet been able to determine how I can change the VID/PID on the USB client port so that a different USB driver will get loaded into the host. Can anyone tell me

Re: [beagleboard] Re: BeagleBone Encoders

2015-01-22 Thread vcorbala
Hi Charles, I don't understand exactly what do you mean here: *More encoders could be supported if you used a single GPIO bank and did one GPIO read with the PRU each loop of the encoder logic. This adds about 160 nS to the loop time, but if the PRU isn't doing much else you should still

[beagleboard] Contamination, SD or eMMC, Root Cause

2015-01-22 Thread bgb123
Please reference paragraph 5.10 on p37 of BBB SRM. Does memory device contamination occur due to open files in the Linux OS, or due to improperly sequenced power to a memory devices inadvertently writing to a memory device? Thanks, Bruce -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/d

[beagleboard] Is there a way to prevent BBB to startup automatically when plugged into USB

2015-01-22 Thread leo . bubbling
I keep my BBB plugged into USB but I don't want it to start every time the PC starts. How can I do that? -- 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 a

Re: [beagleboard] HDMI signal filtering on page 10 (BBB schematics)

2015-01-22 Thread wojtekskulski via BeagleBoard
Gerald: thank you for the answer. I am a bit surprised that caps on the LCD_DATAx are helpful. My understanding is that they must slow down the edges because the AM335x drivers are forced to charge them, what just takes time at a given AM335x buffer strength, 6 mA in this case (data sheet Table

[beagleboard] BBB SPI: 6 cs signals needed

2015-01-22 Thread codemonkey
Hello, I need to address six devices on a single spi bus, and I'm hoping to avoid writing a device driver :-) We will be updating from 3.8.13-bone68 as soon as there is a stable release of a newer kernel. So far, my research hasn't turned up any indication that spidev can support the use of add

Re: [beagleboard] Power Analysis

2015-01-22 Thread Gerald Coley
This is $55 board. If you need all those power taps that adds cost, buy an EVM from TI. As to power savings in your application, which at this point is a mystery, run the processor slower, and lower the core voltage to save power. Gerald On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Satya wrote: > > Hello

Re: [beagleboard] i2c-bus - A new Node.js I2C module

2015-01-22 Thread Andrew Snider
Thanks for this, I was looking at node-i2c & how to implement scan & went all cross eyed. On Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at 1:47:52 PM UTC-6, Brian Cooke wrote: > > There is one more thing: > > >- i2c-bus is io.js and Node.js compatible - tested with io.js 1.0.2 on >a BeagleBone Black runn

[beagleboard] Power Analysis

2015-01-22 Thread Satya
Hello All, I would like to know if any one did power level calculation for BBB, seems like it does not have enough current monitoring hookups as like EVM, does any body have an software solutions regarding the same...!!! I have a few questions regarding the power management in

Re: [beagleboard] Embedded Linux and Device Driver Training Course in London

2015-01-22 Thread Hemant Kapoor
Hello Michael, Thanks for the link, I will definitely give it a go. In the past, I tried building basic device drivers on my own following some online tutorial and got stuck and that was it for me... I can see that Free-electrons have a training scheduled by end of March, If it was bit cheaper

Re: Small distros (was: [beagleboard] debian testing: 2015-01-19)

2015-01-22 Thread William Hermans
> > *I would like to talk more. I've seen some presentations and demos of > Linux booting in under a second. That's my primary goal. Secondary is > maximizing the free space on the eMMC for content (in my case, MP3 files). > I haven't really tried doing a lot in this regard for now, but would like

Re: [beagleboard] Embedded Linux and Device Driver Training Course in London

2015-01-22 Thread Michael Opdenacker
On Thursday, January 22, 2015 at 8:41:19 AM UTC+1, Hemant Kapoor wrote: > > Thanks Robert, > > I had a look at the course its bit expensive from what I was expecting. > > I was hoping if you can help me out with below query: > > I am an embedded software programmer for last 10+ years and need to

Re: [beagleboard] Re: CAN project

2015-01-22 Thread Marco Steger
Dear Pedro, I will use my BBB to connect it to the OBD interface as well as with an 802.15.4 WSN. So I will need a simple voltage conversion 12V vehicle battery -> 5V BBB, the integration of an OBD controller ,and an interface to my WSN. Nothing really complex but I won't be able to have it before

[beagleboard] Re: CAN project

2015-01-22 Thread Mübin Icyer
Hi, I also started a project using CAN on BBB. I am surprized how many people work at the same time for same topic :) I succesfully implemented it by following this page: http://www.koervernet.de/hausautomatisierung/97-beaglebone I have ISO1050 from TI as CAN Transciever. Because it is in german,

Re: [beagleboard] Re: debian testing: 2015-01-19

2015-01-22 Thread Robert Nelson
On Jan 22, 2015 12:53 AM, wrote: > > Hi, I posted regarding a rsyslog iisue that flooded the syslog with: > > rsyslogd-2007: action 'action 17' suspended, next retry is Fri Jan 16 18:44:25 2015 [try http://www.rsyslog.com/e/2007 ] > > As journld works fine I suggest removing rsyslogd from the imag

Re: [beagleboard] Re: CAN project

2015-01-22 Thread Pedro Bueno de Castro
I am using the mcp2551, the same used in shields fos RPI and Arduino, so it`s easier to find one. Which kind of extra functionalities are thinking of? Best Regards 2015-01-22 5:09 GMT-02:00 Marco Steger : > Hi Pedro, > sounds great. Congrats! > > It's the same for me ... there is no cape yet. I

[beagleboard] Re: Windows 7 (64bit) USB issue, BeagleBoneBlack shows up under "Other devices"

2015-01-22 Thread Steve Osselton
I had a problem using the latest TI kernel and the windows USB/ethernet driver. Seemed to be some issue with the windows driver expecting RNDIS where the kernel USB gadget support was configured to support both CDC ECM and RNDIS by default. Changing the USB gadget support to just support RNDIS s

[beagleboard] BBB Flying linux, a must see for every bbb owner

2015-01-22 Thread toni incog
Master hacker Andrew Trdigell at LCA let bbb fly linux: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Twl2mQAh6g -- 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 s