On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Brice Buronfosse <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am currently documenting myself on the open-source hardware (computers) > presently available. My current understanding is that the BeagleBoards are > all open-source hardware, however I cannot find mentions of the BIOS part. > Side note: I could find that information bit on the Raspberry > (http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/8475/what-bios-does-rapsberry-pi-use).
The am335x used on the bbb contains a small rom based bootloader. It's smart enough to read a microSD (raw and fat/ext partitions) (along with usart/usb-slave/etc), but can't init main memory. The standard boot method for us: rom boot -> MLO (from: u-boot/spl) -> u-boot.img (from u-boot) http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot https://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBone+Black#BeagleBoneBlack-Bootloader:U-Boot https://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBone+Black#BeagleBoneBlack-SetupmicroSDcard > > Essentially I was wondering if I would be able to use Libreboot on a > BeagleBone Black. Go for it, there's a place on the bottom of the pcb where you can solder a ti-jtag connector. Good Luck! Regards, -- Robert Nelson https://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.
