Re: [beagleboard] What is a good tool to capture flash chip R/W requests in Debain?

2015-05-29 Thread Ben Gamari
mlotf...@gmail.com writes: Hi I need to make some trace file that captures the the flash chip access in BBB. Is there any appropriate tool for this job? Where are the accesses originating? If they are from a user-space program you could just use strace or roll your own LD_PRELOAD hack.

Re: [beagleboard] Running Labview

2014-11-19 Thread Ben Gamari
philippedekl...@gmail.com writes: I currently use a windows based laptop to run labview developed software for an analytical instrument I am developing. The software is basically a curve fitting program that records data, flattens the baseline and calculates peak areas and height. I want

Re: [beagleboard] BeagleBone Black switching to 3.14 kernel

2014-09-15 Thread Ben Gamari
Robert Nelson robertcnel...@gmail.com writes: So the -bone is close to mainline (small # of patches). The -ti we are a basing on a ti branch: (git.ti.com, patchset 20Mb).. Plus the 'debian' linux-image-armmp will also work once we switch to jessie.. (you can even install ubuntu's linux-image

Re: [beagleboard] BeagleBone Black switching to 3.14 kernel

2014-09-15 Thread Ben Gamari
Robert Nelson robertcnel...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Ben Gamari b...@smart-cactus.org wrote: Robert Nelson robertcnel...@gmail.com writes: So the -bone is close to mainline (small # of patches). The -ti we are a basing on a ti branch: (git.ti.com, patchset 20Mb

Re: [beagleboard] BeagleBone Black switching to 3.14 kernel

2014-09-12 Thread Ben Gamari
Jason Kridner jkrid...@beagleboard.org writes: It is time to make another big software push for BeagleBone Black. We have several recent updates from Robert, including managing the kernel as Debian packages. To try out the new code, use one of the recent images from:

Re: [beagleboard] BeagleBone Black switching to 3.14 kernel

2014-09-12 Thread Ben Gamari
Robert Nelson robertcnel...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Ben Gamari bgamari.f...@gmail.com wrote: Jason Kridner jkrid...@beagleboard.org writes: It is time to make another big software push for BeagleBone Black. We have several recent updates from Robert, including

[beagleboard] Bringing up Debian and v3.14 kernel on BeagleBone Black

2014-09-12 Thread Ben Gamari
I've been documenting my experience bringing up Debian with a v3.14 kernel here[1]. I've also documented how to modify the Devicetree as well as build a new kernel. Let me know if anything needs clarification or correction. Hopefully someone else finds it useful! Cheers, - Ben [1]

Re: [beagleboard] Are the 'modes' in the BBB documentation just history or what?

2014-09-06 Thread Ben Gamari
c...@isbd.net writes: In the BBB System Reference Manual the P8 and P9 pinouts are documented with 7 modes for each pin which provide different uses for the pins. All of the actual software and descriptions I can find about the BBB hardware just talk about the Device Tree and Device Tree

Re: [beagleboard] long term BBB based art installation

2014-07-29 Thread Ben Gamari
Matt Pinner mpin...@gmail.com writes: tldr: can i run a BBB for three years? Sure! I'm about to fly a BBB (w the latest debian) high into the rafters at a space in Denver. Awesome! It will control 1440 leds over SPI from pixel data sent over UDP via OPC. What is OPC? Presumably this

Re: [beagleboard] Re: AM335x Device Tree Overlay

2014-03-05 Thread Ben Gamari
porkupan vladimir.bor...@gmail.com writes: I am not an expert, but I would guess that if your system didn't implement capemgr, you won't be able to load device tree overlays. I would assume the capemgr would be an integral part of all kernels above 3.8, but I may be wrong. I think you

Re: [beagleboard] TCP/IP over uart

2013-11-12 Thread Ben Gamari
canavarosk...@gmail.com writes: hi all, I am trying to setup a network interface over one of serialports of the system. I am using beaglebone and Xbee-wifi modules. Basically I'm trying to communicate 2 beaglebone over serialport bu using a TCP/IP protocole. I need to connect to the