[beagleboard] Re: Angstrom Abandoned for BBB? Rumor + a Rant

2014-01-20 Thread janzwiegers
I just want to add to this thread, that although Terry stirred a bit, but information that followed has been very informative. I'm new to BBB and have lots of experience writing Linux x86 type drivers for ISA, PCI etc. But I'm having a hard time figuring out what my main starting point of devel

[beagleboard] Re: Angstrom Abandoned for BBB? Rumor + a Rant

2014-01-03 Thread Anguel
On Friday, January 3, 2014 5:13:17 PM UTC+1, pewte...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > I am new to linux and am following this thread as I find it fascinating > even though I have no way of knowing what I am reading most of the time:>) > Give me a year or two and I will be up to speed, but in the mean t

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Angstrom Abandoned for BBB? Rumor + a Rant

2014-01-03 Thread Micka
Well, for the moment there is a Jitter problem with the touch screen ( the mouse is moving on his own just after you touch the screen ) But I heard that there is no problem with the Android Kernel On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 5:13 PM, wrote: > > > I am new to linux and am following this thr

[beagleboard] Re: Angstrom Abandoned for BBB? Rumor + a Rant

2014-01-03 Thread pewtergrips
I am new to linux and am following this thread as I find it fascinating even though I have no way of knowing what I am reading most of the time:>) Give me a year or two and I will be up to speed, but in the mean time I have a simple question. I am wanting to use the BBB to retrofit old machi

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Angstrom Abandoned for BBB? Rumor + a Rant

2013-12-30 Thread Mike Bremford
> > Aside from hotplug there is nothing wrong with USB in kernel 3.8.x. I have > even installed, and booted from a USB hard drive using 3.8.13-bone26. Nope, not the case. My kernel was hanging, no logs, nothing on serial console under 3.8.13. No hotplugging, good hub etc., no "babble interrupt" -

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Angstrom Abandoned for BBB? Rumor + a Rant

2013-12-29 Thread APRichelieu
Den måndagen den 30:e december 2013 kl. 03:03:53 UTC+1 skrev Mike Bremford: > > TI Supports their kernel at >> git://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-ti >> which contains linux-3.12 >> >> > Angstrom is based on openembedded-core and meta-openembedded, but is not >> using the standard repos. >> You need

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Angstrom Abandoned for BBB? Rumor + a Rant

2013-12-29 Thread APRichelieu
Den måndagen den 30:e december 2013 kl. 03:03:53 UTC+1 skrev Mike Bremford: > > TI Supports their kernel at >> git://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-ti >> which contains linux-3.12 >> >> > Angstrom is based on openembedded-core and meta-openembedded, but is not >> using the standard repos. >> You need

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Angstrom Abandoned for BBB? Rumor + a Rant

2013-12-29 Thread APRichelieu
Den måndagen den 30:e december 2013 kl. 01:29:17 UTC+1 skrev William Hermans: > > "BTW, How are you going to add an LCD to the RPi, since you only have the > HDMI, and no LCD connector?" > > SPI ? I2C ? UART ? Pretty sure even the rPI has two of the three listed . > .. even if it does only ha

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Angstrom Abandoned for BBB? Rumor + a Rant

2013-12-29 Thread Robert Nelson
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Mike Bremford wrote: >> TI Supports their kernel at >> git://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-ti >> which contains linux-3.12 >> > >> Angstrom is based on openembedded-core and meta-openembedded, but is not >> using the standard repos. >> You need to check out the Yocto-1

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Angstrom Abandoned for BBB? Rumor + a Rant

2013-12-29 Thread William Hermans
Aside from hotplug there is nothing wrong with USB in kernel 3.8.x. I have even installed, and booted from a USB hard drive using 3.8.13-bone26. Personally I think the lot of you are blowing it way out of proportion. This is not some Asus laptop or some Dell desktop / server. This is a hobbyist bo

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Angstrom Abandoned for BBB? Rumor + a Rant

2013-12-29 Thread Mike Bremford
> > TI Supports their kernel at > git://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-ti > which contains linux-3.12 > > Angstrom is based on openembedded-core and meta-openembedded, but is not > using the standard repos. > You need to check out the Yocto-1.5 branch to get access to the latest > stuff though. > If you

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Angstrom Abandoned for BBB? Rumor + a Rant

2013-12-29 Thread William Hermans
Sure they work now, but not so much for the last 6-7 months . . . but the point being there is *NOTHING* I have not personally been able to get working on this wonderful board. Nodejs was a bit of a challenge, as were several Nodejs package managers ( seems this caliber of "programmer" only knows

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Angstrom Abandoned for BBB? Rumor + a Rant

2013-12-29 Thread Robert Nelson
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 6:32 PM, William Hermans wrote: > So like all the whining about how circuitco and x-y-z needs to get busy > doing drivers for x-y-z feature. I dont know where you guys have been for > the last 6-7 months but I have yet to find much of anything that does not > work with the

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Angstrom Abandoned for BBB? Rumor + a Rant

2013-12-29 Thread William Hermans
So like all the whining about how circuitco and x-y-z needs to get busy doing drivers for x-y-z feature. I dont know where you guys have been for the last 6-7 months but I have yet to find much of anything that does not work with the BBB. SO the SGX/DRM drivers dont work . . .BFD this is not a comp

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Angstrom Abandoned for BBB? Rumor + a Rant

2013-12-29 Thread William Hermans
"BTW, How are you going to add an LCD to the RPi, since you only have the HDMI, and no LCD connector?" SPI ? I2C ? UART ? Pretty sure even the rPI has two of the three listed . .. even if it does only have 16 or so GPIO's exposed. On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Ulf Samuelsson wrote: > 2013-

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Angstrom Abandoned for BBB? Rumor + a Rant

2013-12-29 Thread Ulf Samuelsson
2013-12-29 20:41, Anguel skrev: On Monday, December 23, 2013 10:21:55 PM UTC+1, Terry Storm wrote: A little birdy told me that Angstrom has been abandoned for the BBB ?? Terry, I will comment on this topic risking to get some angry feedback from other people posting here. My theory

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Angstrom Abandoned for BBB? Rumor + a Rant

2013-12-29 Thread Robert Nelson
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Anguel wrote: > > On Monday, December 23, 2013 10:21:55 PM UTC+1, Terry Storm wrote: >> >> >> A little birdy told me that Angstrom has been abandoned for the BBB ?? >> > > Terry, I will comment on this topic risking to get some angry feedback from > other people po

[beagleboard] Re: Angstrom Abandoned for BBB? Rumor + a Rant

2013-12-29 Thread Anguel
On Monday, December 23, 2013 10:21:55 PM UTC+1, Terry Storm wrote: > > > A little birdy told me that Angstrom has been abandoned for the BBB ?? > > Terry, I will comment on this topic risking to get some angry feedback from other people posting here. My theory is the following: Koen Kooi was the