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

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

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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