Not bad. BBB would have been a better choice.

Gerald



On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Jon Holcomb <[email protected]>wrote:

> $50
>
>
>
> On Friday, October 11, 2013 4:14:20 PM UTC-5, Gerald wrote:
>
>> Hope you didn't pay too much!
>>
>> Gerald
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Jon Holcomb <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> All:
>>> First off, thanks to Brian Hensley and Robert Nelson for their wealth of
>>> information and support.
>>>
>>> I am a retiree that, after a 30+ year stint building
>>> electronic/mechanical devices in the medical research field in a MS Windows
>>> centric university , thought that I would expand my horizons and decided to
>>> play with the BBxM.  I am running Ubuntu 12.04 and have gotten to the point
>>> where I am ready to try and compile a u-boot.img in order to
>>> set the pinmux values.  I have downloaded and ran the TI Pinmux utility
>>> and have made the mux.h and pinmux.h files. I have the u-boot source file
>>> from denx.de and have expanded it and have found the board/ti/beagle
>>> and evm subdirectories.
>>>
>>> I have read a lot of stuff on the internet but since things change daily
>>> I want to check on several things.
>>> Bear with me if I am asking obvious questions but I am still learning to
>>> get around in the linux environment and I have seen conflicting info in
>>> various posts.
>>>
>>> 1.  Where in the tree do these files go? Do I need to make changes to
>>> evm.h?
>>> 2. I have the spidev working that RCN made available via the uEnv.txt
>>> change uncommenting buddy = spidev.  Will my changes to the pinmux affect
>>> this.
>>>     i.e Do I have to set the SPI3 and SPI 4 pins as well as the I2C pins
>>> in the utility?
>>> 3. Should I assume that the baseline that is given by the pinmux utility
>>> sets all of the proper pads for the correct functioning of the BBxM?
>>> 4. Am I going dangerously wrong in any of this???  Have I missed
>>> anything?
>>>
>>> I bought 3 BBxMs off of eBay and gave one to my buddy that just retired
>>> as Director of IT at the university where I worked. I had Ubuntu and lxde
>>> already running on the BB.
>>> I told him the first one is free - just like crack, and yes he is
>>> addicted.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for your help
>>> Jon
>>>
>>>
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