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

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

[Robert P. J. Day]

  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?

rday

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

[Bruce Ashfield]

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
>

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

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 7 Jul 2014, Bruce Ashfield wrote:

> 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.

  excellent. since i want to configure and build for a classroom
environment and probably don't need bleeding edge, i'll stick with the
yocto-bsp stuff, which has served me well thus far.

rday

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

[Gary Thomas]

On 2014-07-07 07:33, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jul 2014, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>    excellent. since i want to configure and build for a classroom
> environment and probably don't need bleeding edge, i'll stick with the
> yocto-bsp stuff, which has served me well thus far.

The big thing missing from this version(*) is no cape support,
so if you need an LCD display or CAN driver or ...,  you're not
going to find it.  The meta-ti version does support those AFAIK

(*) unless this changed in the last three weeks while I was on holiday :-)

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

[Diego Sueiro]

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Gary,

On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com> wrote:

> The big thing missing from this version(*) is no cape support,
> so if you need an LCD display or CAN driver or ...,  you're not
> going to find it.  The meta-ti version does support those AFAIK
>
> (*) unless this changed in the last three weeks while I was on holiday :-)
>

meta-ti does not have support for cape manager. Just meta-beagleboard
included it for kernel 3.8.


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