On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 3:51 AM, Andrew P. Lentvorski <[email protected]> wrote: > Unlike the original poster, I'm not taking offense. People are doing the > best they can. > > However, I will say that, as a user, spelunking through BeagleBone Black > documentation has been kind of painful. > > If you can stay at the Python/Javascript level, things are quite decent. > Even basic Linux stuff is fine. > > However, once you need to get down into the Linux device level, the number > of people who really understand what is going on drops very quickly. And I > suspect those vitally important people are so overwhelmed doing real work or > paid work and that they really don't have the bandwidth for random > documentation and tutorial construction. And, even if they did, how many > people would it benefit? Sure, I'd love to have some really detailed > tutorials since most of them older than even 6 months generally don't work, > but if there are only 5 of us who could make use of those tutorials, is it a > good use of time? Especially when there is so much flux right now? > > I see about 30 BeagleBone Black compatible capes; the fact that some of > those don't work directly under Debian shows that even highly knowledgable > people don't understand all the implications. So, that bounds the number of > people who can talk intelligently about kernel device stuff (and that's of > the right order of magnitude for views). That's not a very big pool to draw > from.
Just a side note for any user who has a cape that doesn't work. First what kernel are you running? (uname -r) The odd's are, you are either running an older kernel, or one that's not setup to directly support all capes. Note, we are still adding capes to the 3.8 tree, for the upcoming bone71, we've added: https://github.com/ddrown/pps-gmtimer I know we will never fully support "all", but we are chewing on each one at time... Here's the current list of overlays: https://github.com/RobertCNelson/linux-stable-rcn-ee/tree/3.8.13-bone70/firmware/capes 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/d/optout.
