Did you know that BeagleBone Black is *true* open hardware? This means that people can readily take the design and make their own custom changes to it even prototyping it in low quantities, such as being supported for the upcoming Arduino TRE. The same can't be said for some other boards in the same price range also looking to get Linux in the hands of more people.
It is also $35 to distributors and those including it in other open hardware projects.
OK, it might not have been best for me to start with a sales pitch, but it seems to me a lot of people aren't aware.
I'd like to figure out who has interest in improving Fedora support on BeagleBone Black and what I can do to help them. We have a running image of Fedora...
http://beagleboard.org/fedora has a bit more information on that as well as the desired end experience
...but there are a lot of things that need to be done to try to make it more appealing to expose more "makers" to Linux.
First and foremost, support needs to be in the Fedora mainline, not on a remix. I'd be very happy if I was copied on any blocking issues in that regard so that I can help get them addressed.
Second, we've built a unique experience around the BeagleBone where you can simply plug it in over USB, it shares any drivers necessary for Windows or Macs to get connected using an emulated flash drive and the virtual Ethernet connection over USB serves up an interactive board-hosted web site to learn about the board capabilities and interact with it. You can also simply ssh over the virtual Ethernet connection to develop locally on the board or using 'gdb' connected cross-tools like Eclipse. This same experience is being duplicated and extensively augmented on the upcoming Arduino TRE.
The end result is to produce an image easy to install and use via the web browser and desktop for the almost 100,000 boards already out there and potentially replace the reference distro shipped with the boards 100,000s of boards yet to come and their derivatives.
Please contact me and/or Dave Anders if you have interest in supporting this effort or need some help resolving issues related to any of the BeagleBoard.org boards.
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Jason Kridner jkridner@beagleboard.org wrote:
Did you know that BeagleBone Black is *true* open hardware? This means that people can readily take the design and make their own custom changes to it even prototyping it in low quantities, such as being supported for the upcoming Arduino TRE. The same can't be said for some other boards in the same price range also looking to get Linux in the hands of more people.
It is also $35 to distributors and those including it in other open hardware projects.
OK, it might not have been best for me to start with a sales pitch, but it seems to me a lot of people aren't aware.
People are aware. There have been several dozen handed out at various Fedora events.
I'd like to figure out who has interest in improving Fedora support on BeagleBone Black and what I can do to help them. We have a running image of Fedora...
Peter Robinson and Kyle McMartin have been poking at getting it booting recently.
First and foremost, support needs to be in the Fedora mainline, not on a remix. I'd be very happy if I was copied on any blocking issues in that regard so that I can help get them addressed.
Getting all the relevant kernel patches upstream would go a long way towards getting everything in Fedora mainline. Particularly in a multiboard fashion.
josh
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Josh Boyer jwboyer@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Jason Kridner jkridner@beagleboard.org wrote:
Did you know that BeagleBone Black is *true* open hardware? This means that people can readily take the design and make their own custom changes to it even prototyping it in low quantities, such as being supported for the upcoming Arduino TRE. The same can't be said for some other boards in the same price range also looking to get Linux in the hands of more people.
It is also $35 to distributors and those including it in other open hardware projects.
OK, it might not have been best for me to start with a sales pitch, but it seems to me a lot of people aren't aware.
People are aware. There have been several dozen handed out at various Fedora events.
I'd like to figure out who has interest in improving Fedora support on BeagleBone Black and what I can do to help them. We have a running image of Fedora...
Peter Robinson and Kyle McMartin have been poking at getting it booting recently.
First and foremost, support needs to be in the Fedora mainline, not on a remix. I'd be very happy if I was copied on any blocking issues in that regard so that I can help get them addressed.
Getting all the relevant kernel patches upstream would go a long way towards getting everything in Fedora mainline. Particularly in a multiboard fashion.
Understood. This is the priority and I've probably missed the most critical e-mail traffic on the upstream kernel lists. I'm trying to escalate any blocking issues with upstream support to the right folks at TI if they aren't already aware of any outstanding issues. It seems the USB support is the last major hurdle, but I'm told by the TI team that it is working in the staging tree. I'm trying to track down now if all the right patches are indeed staged at an upstream maintainer or not (as I might not have completely understood and I'd like to know exactly where they are staged if someone wants to bring them in early).
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 12:58:01PM -0400, Jason Kridner wrote:
Did you know that BeagleBone Black is *true* open hardware? This means that people can readily take the design and make their own custom changes to it even prototyping it in low quantities, such as being supported for the upcoming Arduino TRE. The same can't be said for some other boards in the same price range also looking to get Linux in the hands of more people.
It is also $35 to distributors and those including it in other open hardware projects.
OK, it might not have been best for me to start with a sales pitch, but it seems to me a lot of people aren't aware.
I'd like to figure out who has interest in improving Fedora support on BeagleBone Black and what I can do to help them. We have a running image of Fedora...
http://beagleboard.org/fedora has a bit more information on that as well as the desired end experience
...but there are a lot of things that need to be done to try to make it more appealing to expose more "makers" to Linux.
First and foremost, support needs to be in the Fedora mainline, not on a remix. I'd be very happy if I was copied on any blocking issues in that regard so that I can help get them addressed.
Thanks! I've got a trimmed down patchset that I'm ready to apply to Fedora for it, just waiting on some test results and some config tweaks, and then we should be good to go on F-20. I'll let you know as soon as we have images for you.
--Kyle
Second, we've built a unique experience around the BeagleBone where you can simply plug it in over USB, it shares any drivers necessary for Windows or Macs to get connected using an emulated flash drive and the virtual Ethernet connection over USB serves up an interactive board-hosted web site to learn about the board capabilities and interact with it. You can also simply ssh over the virtual Ethernet connection to develop locally on the board or using 'gdb' connected cross-tools like Eclipse. This same experience is being duplicated and extensively augmented on the upcoming Arduino TRE.
The end result is to produce an image easy to install and use via the web browser and desktop for the almost 100,000 boards already out there and potentially replace the reference distro shipped with the boards 100,000s of boards yet to come and their derivatives.
Please contact me and/or Dave Anders if you have interest in supporting this effort or need some help resolving issues related to any of the BeagleBoard.org boards. _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Kyle McMartin kyle@redhat.com wrote:
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 12:58:01PM -0400, Jason Kridner wrote:
Did you know that BeagleBone Black is *true* open hardware? This means that people can readily take the design and make their own custom changes to it even prototyping it in low quantities, such as being supported for the upcoming Arduino TRE. The same can't be said for some other boards in the same price range also looking to get Linux in the hands of more people.
It is also $35 to distributors and those including it in other open hardware projects.
OK, it might not have been best for me to start with a sales pitch, but it seems to me a lot of people aren't aware.
I'd like to figure out who has interest in improving Fedora support on BeagleBone Black and what I can do to help them. We have a running image of Fedora...
http://beagleboard.org/fedora has a bit more information on that as well as the desired end experience
...but there are a lot of things that need to be done to try to make it more appealing to expose more "makers" to Linux.
First and foremost, support needs to be in the Fedora mainline, not on a remix. I'd be very happy if I was copied on any blocking issues in that regard so that I can help get them addressed.
Thanks! I've got a trimmed down patchset that I'm ready to apply to Fedora for it, just waiting on some test results and some config tweaks, and then we should be good to go on F-20. I'll let you know as soon as we have images for you.
fyi-
Kyle, as i haven't seen your patchset/config
If you happened to start with our reference 3.12 config from github.com/beagleboard/kernel there was an issues where the usb host port was not working.. That has now just been fixed, essentially disabling: CONFIG_USB_OTG_WHITELIST
Regards,
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Robert Nelson robertcnelson@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Kyle McMartin kyle@redhat.com wrote:
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 12:58:01PM -0400, Jason Kridner wrote:
Did you know that BeagleBone Black is *true* open hardware? This means that people can readily take the design and make their own custom changes to it even prototyping it in low quantities, such as being supported for the upcoming Arduino TRE. The same can't be said for some other boards in the same price range also looking to get Linux in the hands of more people.
It is also $35 to distributors and those including it in other open hardware projects.
OK, it might not have been best for me to start with a sales pitch, but it seems to me a lot of people aren't aware.
I'd like to figure out who has interest in improving Fedora support on BeagleBone Black and what I can do to help them. We have a running image of Fedora...
http://beagleboard.org/fedora has a bit more information on that as well as the desired end experience
...but there are a lot of things that need to be done to try to make it more appealing to expose more "makers" to Linux.
First and foremost, support needs to be in the Fedora mainline, not on a remix. I'd be very happy if I was copied on any blocking issues in that regard so that I can help get them addressed.
Thanks! I've got a trimmed down patchset that I'm ready to apply to Fedora for it, just waiting on some test results and some config tweaks, and then we should be good to go on F-20. I'll let you know as soon as we have images for you.
fyi-
Kyle, as i haven't seen your patchset/config
If you happened to start with our reference 3.12 config from github.com/beagleboard/kernel there was an issues where the usb host port was not working.. That has now just been fixed, essentially disabling: CONFIG_USB_OTG_WHITELIST
We've had it set as such for quite some time already.
Peter
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El Thu, 10 Oct 2013 16:59:20 -0500 Robert Nelson robertcnelson@gmail.com escribió:
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Kyle McMartin kyle@redhat.com wrote:
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 12:58:01PM -0400, Jason Kridner wrote:
Did you know that BeagleBone Black is *true* open hardware? This means that people can readily take the design and make their own custom changes to it even prototyping it in low quantities, such as being supported for the upcoming Arduino TRE. The same can't be said for some other boards in the same price range also looking to get Linux in the hands of more people.
It is also $35 to distributors and those including it in other open hardware projects.
OK, it might not have been best for me to start with a sales pitch, but it seems to me a lot of people aren't aware.
I'd like to figure out who has interest in improving Fedora support on BeagleBone Black and what I can do to help them. We have a running image of Fedora...
http://beagleboard.org/fedora has a bit more information on that as well as the desired end experience
...but there are a lot of things that need to be done to try to make it more appealing to expose more "makers" to Linux.
First and foremost, support needs to be in the Fedora mainline, not on a remix. I'd be very happy if I was copied on any blocking issues in that regard so that I can help get them addressed.
Thanks! I've got a trimmed down patchset that I'm ready to apply to Fedora for it, just waiting on some test results and some config tweaks, and then we should be good to go on F-20. I'll let you know as soon as we have images for you.
fyi-
Kyle, as i haven't seen your patchset/config
If you happened to start with our reference 3.12 config from github.com/beagleboard/kernel there was an issues where the usb host port was not working.. That has now just been fixed, essentially disabling: CONFIG_USB_OTG_WHITELIST
Note we only build unified kernels.
Dennis
Thanks! I've got a trimmed down patchset that I'm ready to apply to Fedora for it, just waiting on some test results and some config tweaks, and then we should be good to go on F-20. I'll let you know as soon as we have images for you.
fyi-
Kyle, as i haven't seen your patchset/config
If you happened to start with our reference 3.12 config from github.com/beagleboard/kernel there was an issues where the usb host port was not working.. That has now just been fixed, essentially disabling: CONFIG_USB_OTG_WHITELIST
Note we only build unified kernels.
Ah and who doesn't?
Anywho, that was just an offer of help to Kyle, as it looked like "something" was still missing as the images are not out yet..
(Crap, stupid gmail reply button.. Sorry Dennis for the double response, i wasn't personally emailing you directly)..
Regards,
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 04:59:20PM -0500, Robert Nelson wrote:
Kyle, as i haven't seen your patchset/config
If you happened to start with our reference 3.12 config from github.com/beagleboard/kernel there was an issues where the usb host port was not working.. That has now just been fixed, essentially disabling: CONFIG_USB_OTG_WHITELIST
That's off for us, but we're still missing something preventing USB from working. I've set everything so that gadget mode is off, since I believe dual mode is broken right now?
http://kyle.fedorapeople.org/kernel-3.11.4-armv7hl.config
Is our latest config (it just occured to me that I should try Koen's config on top of Fedora for testing, doing that now) if you have any advice.
regards, Kyle
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Kyle McMartin kmcmarti@redhat.com wrote:
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 04:59:20PM -0500, Robert Nelson wrote:
Kyle, as i haven't seen your patchset/config
If you happened to start with our reference 3.12 config from github.com/beagleboard/kernel there was an issues where the usb host port was not working.. That has now just been fixed, essentially disabling: CONFIG_USB_OTG_WHITELIST
That's off for us, but we're still missing something preventing USB from working. I've set everything so that gadget mode is off, since I believe dual mode is broken right now?
http://kyle.fedorapeople.org/kernel-3.11.4-armv7hl.config
Is our latest config (it just occured to me that I should try Koen's config on top of Fedora for testing, doing that now) if you have any advice.
Ah 3.11.4 is going to be pain, as most of the am335x musb stuff ended up in 3.12-rc
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/drivers/...
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/log/dri...
Regards,