Brian, as far as Ubuntu goes . . . Yeah let us just say I dont have very much good / nice to say about it. I've done tons of testing on Ubuntu, and it has always let me down. Not to mention it's upgrade path used to literally be a nightmare.
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 4:41 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote: > I do not think TFTP kernel load will be possible over usb. Although there > was a GSoC project last year for that. Last I heard semi recently, the > developer was still having some issues. His vision was to boot a BBB over > NFS from an Android device, like a tablet or phone. Pretty cool project I > think, but not really my thing. > > But yes, I've read some performance tests where g_ether can get up to as > high as 18MB/s( Mega bytes ). I do not know if this will be possible on the > BBB or not ( different usb implementation etc ), but that is why I'm going > to be figuring this out for myself. > > > On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Brian Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> William, >> >> Thanks for the comments. Yes, I am in the same position as you...a year >> on. I've not touched Linux in any serious way for a long time. I have >> been involved in a number of commercial deployments that target >> CentOS/RHEL. My role was that of a Java server developer, so I didn't get >> all that close to the metal. I am just recently coming off of 3 years of >> serious Android development work and hoping to transition to some embedded >> stuff (Android and/or embedded Linux) professionally over the next couple >> of years. So, I do appreciate your input. >> >> FWIW, I am thinking that things _might_ have changed a bit since you last >> looked. I'm using Mint-17 self described on their release page as: >> >> Linux Mint 17 features Cinnamon 2.2, MDM 1.6, a Linux kernel 3.13 and >> an Ubuntu 14.04 package base. >> >> Apparently this is not LMDE...that is a different distribution that the >> Mint folks offer (and yes, that is still Debian testing, assuming jessie). >> I remember reading up on Mint changing directions a bit in the not too far >> distant past, concentrating on improving UI on top of a core Ubuntu >> distro. So far, so good. Nice UI, performant enough. No problems with >> package conflicts. >> >> Regarding the usbnet stuff, I read your response to be that usbnet offers >> the potential for a higher bandwidth connection than available over the >> Ethernet jack on the BBB. Correct? All other things being the same? That >> is, NFS rootfs mount, TFTP, ... >> >> Cheers, >> >> ba >> >> -- >> 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/d/optout. >> > > -- 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/d/optout.
