On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 1:01 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The following is just my viewpoint, and is not meant to be an > attack on > any person. I've not done enough with the BBB (other than running a nasty > benchmark on it and an RPi3 -- and I think the benchmark wore out the > original RPi3 SD card, before I obtained a small USB hard drive for swap) > > On Sat, 9 Dec 2017 12:10:23 -0700, William Hermans > <[email protected]> declaimed the following: > > > > >You need to slow down, and learn things. Seriously, when I first had a BBB > >in hand, I knew nothing about embedded Linux, and had to learn everything > >from the ground up. Since this was also when the beaglebone black first > >came out, there were no articles on the web. However, what I did not > >understand at the time, was the BBW was pretty much the same hardware from > >an embedded linux users standpoint. There were a lot of article out there > . > > The biggest hindrance currently is that practically everything > that IS > "out there' for the BBB is based upon cape-manager and run-time device tree > overlays. There doesn't seem to be anything that firmly lays out how to > convert a cape-manager/overlay example into the u-Boot overlay scheme > (would be nice if such example actually used some major documentation -- > say a side-by-side of Molloy's lessons). > > Consider how many questions over the last few months have had > answers > on the order of "... no longer create a separate FAT partition" or "... now > use u-Boot overlays". Neither of which actually explain how to go from some > now-outdated guide to equivalent functionality. Heck, I've even seen images > vary from auto-mounting an SD card (when booting from eMMC) to requiring > one to figure out how to perform a mount, and to some intermediate > condition. > This just tells me that either a) the person asking the question isn't willing to look, or doesn't know where to look. Both of the examples youve given above are explained on the elinux documentation pages. Of whcih I'm assuming wrote those guides. Robert at least links to them all the time, for question asked here. Not to mention in the case of uboot overlays, it's clearly mentioned, and linked to in the uEnv.txt file for every image I've seen to date. As for the rest, yeah, IDK maybe it's just me( I doubt it ) but very seldom do I have issues following an older guide, and converting to a modern file system arrangement. I'd say, that perhaps more time needs to be invested in order to "get it" ? Adapting overlays, source, etc is a matter of experience, and perhaps those who do not understand them should study, and experiment more ? Worked for me. -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CALHSORosy_nVYHdSF_%2Bu_rLrH8Uet%3DpmRfp0sdsyDfMjSNDsDA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
