for an upcoming embedded linux class that will use the BBB, i want to write a page of commands students can run after stopping in u-boot that will let them learn a bit about their board before booting into linux.
i'm currently using a rev A5C but class will use latest rev C BBBs, and i'll almost certainly use one of RCN's latest debian images. i started with the trivially obvious commands here: http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/BBB_U-Boot_Commands and am still writing, but if anyone wants to throw out ideas to add to that page, i'm all ears. the point is to give students commands to run that are not only entertaining and educational, but also to display information that they can cross-reference back to later when working with the BBB in user space. so ... thoughts? rday p.s. that page, as all my wiki pages, are always publicly available, so everyone will be welcome to read the end result. p.p.s. can i use the "eeprom" command to read the contents of the 4K eeprom on the BBB? my original feeling was that i would need to access it through I2C; is there anything meaningful i can do with the "eeprom" command in u-boot on the BBB? -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================