> > On a secondary remark, why is TI seemingly making it so hard for people to > develop applications targeting their processors, using community tools? The > easy answer is evidently to promote vendor tools, but in the end they still > end up selling chips even though people don't buy the software tools. >
TI does promote CCS, but it's not particularly hard to develop applications on the beaglebone. A matter of fact, it's just like with any Linux system, but with added peripherals to toy with, or use. You would need the same tools on an x86 Linux system to develop C/C++, GO, Nodejs( and much more ) applications. With perhaps some slightly different tool setup at the beginning. With the SGX drivers however, it's been this way since the beginning. Well, it's actually slightly better now, but 4 years later . . . not by much. > The board I'm bringing up right now is a customized BBB with integrated > LCD. > I was just thinking this morning while trying to get QT to compile that it > would be so easy to switch to a different platform, including turnkey LCD > controllers from FTDI, to bypass the OpenGL mess of the BBB. > So I'm curious as to why exactly you need Qt, then assuming you really do require Qt, why would you be required to use hardware acceleration. It's been a long time since I've written anything using Qt, but it's my understanding that Qt is just a set of API's that lend its self to developing desktop applications(forms drop downs, buttons, etc ). There should not be any hardware requirements period. Unless it's changed that much in the last 3-4 years. Anyway, the beaglebone's strong suite has never been it's graphics. It's strong points have been the large amount of peripherals it has access to out of the box. Including, but not limited to PRU's, ADC, PWMs, quadrature encoders, eCAP modules, SPI, I2C, UART CANBus . . . Plus a truly open source model, for hardware, and software. -- 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 beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CALHSORoEThHfEJWRUjj1%2BDv1Hu69ABFSqsV4K9_jvcAkB3KJUg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.