Re: how many variations to build for a beaglebone black (BBB)?

[Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@windriver.com>]

On 14-07-07 09:13 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
>    i want to build a bootable system for a BBB, and i can see at least
> three possibilities:
>
>    1) the meta-yocto-bsp layer defines the beaglebone as one of its
>       reference boards
>
>    2) the "meta-ti" layer is advertised as "official" TI board support
>
>    3) there is a "meta-beagleboard" layer, but that one looks a bit
>       stagnant
>
> any preferences out there for people working with the BBB?

The generic "it depends" answer applies here.

Due to the efforts of TI,the core BBB support made it into the mainline
kernel for 3.14, so that forms a common baseline of feature support.

Outside of that, it depends on the functionality you need in the image
and your familiarity with integration of multiple layers and features.

meta-ti gets you the latest and greatest features and support, while
the reference BSP was also done by TI to provide a good baseline level
of support (graphics, usb, ethernet, etc) and is supported via Wind River
in the linux-yocto repository.

Cheers,

Bruce

>
> rday
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