*> tutorials such as these included a description of what version of code this was developed/tested on.*
This ^^^^^ As a beginner, it's been quite frustrating to have to wade through all the tutorials referring to a cape manager that no longer exists. Not only have I learnt how things work today, I've also had to learn how they used to work — which I could have done without. On Thursday, August 27, 2020 at 11:17:24 AM UTC-7 jimf...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi Mark, > > Nice tutorial. Wish I'd had that quite some time ago, I had to pull all > those pieces together myself. > > From having read a bunch of posts here, I have a few suggestions for your > consideration. > > 1. User needs to be in the gpio group. This isn't mentioned. > 2. People often ignore parts of instructions. If your prompt included the > current directory name, it would be slightly more obvious where each > command is run. > 3. It would be AMAZING if tutorials such as these included a description > of what version of code this was developed/tested on. You could either > mention the RCN release number or the kernel build, but it would be so > great if this were a standard thing to mention. Consider how much things > have changed with device trees over the past five (?) years. There's tons > of now-wrong notes on how to do things. (I know you mention a kernel in the > compilation section, I guess it would be nice to spell this out up top, > i.e. "This tutorial is applicable to Beaglebone release xxx"). > 4. Not sure this comment is welcome, but a top level Tutorials page > containing all the EBC## tutorials would be cool. I found the others by > clicking on your ECE497 link, but that isn't exactly obvious (to me). Those > look like some great materials that I hadn't come across before, for some > reason. > > Best, > > Jim > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 10:23 PM Mark A. Yoder <mark.a...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Beagler's: >> I just wrote up some notes on how to edit the device tree to change a >> GPIO into an LED. >> >> Switching_a_GPIO_to_an_LED >> <https://elinux.org/EBC_Exercise_17_Switching_a_GPIO_to_an_LED> >> >> It's are rather involved process that requires understanding some deeper >> magic. >> >> Let me know what you think. >> >> --Mark >> >> -- >> > 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...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/61317cde-fb07-4c98-bc56-c968e58e7a10n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/61317cde-fb07-4c98-bc56-c968e58e7a10n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- 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/b084091f-5dd0-4f5d-9953-c68bd30b7a3en%40googlegroups.com.
