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
>>
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