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

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>]

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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