Robert, so . . . still no cape support, and I at least need I2C, SPI UART,
and possibly a few other things ( definitely standard GPIO ). Would
enabling these features be a major undertaking, or would someone such as
myself who is new to embedded Linux be able to work out the wrinkles ?

I'd be willing to give it a shot either way, but I would need some guidance
as how to proceed.


On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 1:57 PM, John Syne <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Anguel <[email protected]>
> Reply-To: <[email protected]>
> Date: Friday, January 3, 2014 at 12:41 PM
>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [beagleboard] Angstrom Abandoned for BBB? Rumor + a Rant
>
>
>
> On Friday, January 3, 2014 8:03:32 PM UTC+1, John Syne wrote:
>>
>> Hi Anguel,
>>
>> Yes, I originally built the TI Graphics SDK and installed it on top of
>> Robert’s Debian release, but now Robert has kindly added a SGX script which
>> I can confirm does the same thing.
>>
>
>
> Sounds good. Today I wrote Robert's Debian 7.3 image to an SD card and
> successfully booted the BBB. Then I installed Debian's qt-sdk (which is Qt
> 4.8.2). Qt complained that it cannot find an X Server, so I first tried to
> install xserver-xfbdev (which is advertised as very lightweight) but this
> did not work for some reason. Then I installed LXDE and that worked out
> fine. Haven't tested thoroughly but I suspect that the 3.8.13 kernel in the
> Debian 7.3 image does not have 3D accelleration.
>
> When you install SGX, you have 3D acceleration. The 3D examples are under
> /opt. To run the QT app, I use the –platform eglfs.
>
>
>
> Of course the native compilation, even at application level, takes a long
> time on the BBB. And I am still not sure which is the recommended way to
> cross-compile Qt apps on the BBB.
>
> If I have some time I will also have a look at Qt 5 with TI's Graphics
> SDK. I think Qt is very important for the BBB and is required by many
> people. For non-GUI tasks where fast response times are needed I still
> prefer a Cortex M3 or M4 at bare-metal level :)
>
> Have you tried Xenomai? I looked at using F28M35C Concerto devices and I
> always seemed to run out of memory when adding all the pieces I needed such
> as network stack, security, etc.
>
>
>
> Anguel
>
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