On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Mike Bremford <[email protected]> wrote: >> TI Supports their kernel at >> git://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-ti >> which contains linux-3.12 >> > >> Angstrom is based on openembedded-core and meta-openembedded, but is not >> using the standard repos. >> You need to check out the Yocto-1.5 branch to get access to the latest >> stuff though. >> If you clone the master, you do not see much development,since this is >> based on Yocto-1.3 which sees little development. >> >> Buildroot is not Yocto compliant, which means that they will not follow >> mainstream development funded by large companies. >> > > Where is this documented? And why should I care? The above two paragraphs > are unintelligible to anyone that hasn't been involved in embedded Linux for > some time. > > With the greatest respect to Gerald, Robert and the others who are doing a > heroic job and whoever else was involved in designing a very, very nice > piece of hardware, the software support is poor. I'm sure this will change > at some point but as of today I can choose from a kernel that tends to hang > with USB devices (3.8, shipping) or a kernel that doesn't work with capes > (3.12 or 3.13rcN). Both are from Robert via a wiki (elinux.org) which isn't > associated with the beaglebone website, and it appears he's the only guy > working on it. Yet there are apparently several thousand Beaglebones > shipping a month?!? That's just crazy.
Does it make it more crazy for you, if i told you I don't work for TI or CircuitCo? Just a hobbiest/user ;) Regards, -- Robert Nelson http://www.rcn-ee.com/ -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
