Personally, I'd rather that TI kept their sticky paws off of the development as much as possible. Watching the SGX/DRM driver progression should be warning enough.
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 5:24 PM, John Syne <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Anguel <[email protected]> > Reply-To: <[email protected]> > Date: Saturday, January 4, 2014 at 3:09 PM > To: <[email protected]> > Cc: <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [beagleboard] Angstrom Abandoned for BBB? Rumor + a Rant > > > > On Saturday, January 4, 2014 3:20:07 PM UTC+1, Jason Kridner wrote: >> >> We are working with Robert Nelson's Debian images to try to produce an >> out-of-box experience on par with the Angstrom images. Once we have a >> few more features in, namely an updated Cloud9 IDE that works with >> node 0.10, then we'll push out a beta image broadly for testing. > > > It is good news that you are working with Robert on Debian. IMHO this is > the way to go. Robert is doing so much for the BBB community. TI should > support him in every way they can. > It is a fact that BBB developer resources are extremely limited. So > efforts should really concentrate on getting the serious stuff working > properly, I mean the basic things a serious developer needs: kernel + > stability + Qt, because Linux is used for touch GUIs, not as a desktop > replacement. > For me Linux Desktops, Cloud9, USB networking etc. is just a big waste of > precious development time, unless the intention is to fool new customers > that the BBB is something easy to use. This is definitely not the case and > will never be! Just have a look at all the posts in this thread. > > Actually, Cloud9 together with DojoToolKit is amazing for developing Web > based GUI. Using websockets makes the GUI very responsive. > > > > The LCD Cape vendors should push support for their hardware into >> https://github.com/beagleboard/kernel and >> https://github.com/beagleboard/cape-firmware. CircuitCo does so. >> Github pull requests are the best way to do so. >> > > The problem with touch was that someone ported the ADC / touchscreen stuff > from an upcoming TI kernel to the 3.8 kernel and some things broke. Then > this somebody just did not have the time to fix the bugs and they stayed > there. I already discussed this in another thread. > > Use Capacitive based touchscreen. These interface via USB. > > > > Anguel > > -- > 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. > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
