Jim: Thanks for the feedback. I like your suggestions. Responses below:
On Thursday, August 27, 2020 at 2:17:24 PM UTC-4 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. > *The debian image has user debian in the gpio group by default. Though there are other use cases, I want to keep this focused on my students.* *They are fighting too many alligators for me to add the group alligator.* > 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. > *Good suggestion. To keep the clutter down I just converted all paths to absolute. Does that work?* > 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"). > *Great idea. Wiki pages age so quickly. I've added a footnote that displays the output of uname and cat /etc/dogtag. What do you think?* (https://elinux.org/EBC_Exercise_17_Switching_a_GPIO_to_an_LED) > 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. > *Another good idea, but... I'm sticking with using the Category to collect all my pages. I hope my titles are descriptive enough that I can remember what's in them.* Thanks again for the feedback. --Mark > 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/25d5f747-227b-4e2a-b988-f86e00311c0bn%40googlegroups.com.
