Awesome project, thanks for sharing! Jess
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Andrew Henderson <hende...@icculus.org>wrote: > Hello everyone. I don't write on the list very much these days, since I > have not been living in the JAX area for the past two years. I have had > the opportunity to visit with many of you on the few occasions when I had > the privilege of speaking to the LUG about topics such as embedded Linux > and device driver development. In that vein, I would like to take the > opportunity to show you some of my more recent Linux work. > > I left JAX when I moved to Syracuse, NY to begin my PhD degree in > electrical and computer engineering at Syracuse University. I have a > course this term that requires a course project using the ARM-based > BeagleBoard-xM hardware platform. Overall, I've been pretty happy with the > power and performance of the BeagleBoard platforms, and I recommend them to > anyone interested in getting started with embedded computing. > > Anyway, after about 80 hours of building and patching Linux kernels, > coding, and other assorted tinkering, I have this to show for my efforts: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?**v=8pl87z0w8B0<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pl87z0w8B0> > > This is BeagleSNES, a Super Nintendo emulation platform for the > BeagleBoard-xM. I've been cleaning up source code for an OSS release, and > I'm in the process of getting a web page set up (beaglesnes.org) for > downloads and documentation. In short, it is a nice GUI front-end for > selecting games, an emulator for playing the games, and a custom embedded > OS environment (bootloader, kernel, filesystem). It is an appliance: you > turn it on and it boots up straight to the game selection menu. It is > still quite rough around the edges, but not a bad start. > > Preparing an embedded project for release can become quite tricky, since > there is a bit more to it than simply releasing source code with a > configure script. There are multiple components to consider (apps, kernel, > bootloader, file system image). I've released and managed several OSS > projects in the past, but releasing an embedded platform project is quite a > bit more complex and it has taken some time thus far to get everything > prepared and packaged up. > > Andrew > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > Archive > http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-**list&r=1&w=2<http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2> > RSS Feed > http://www.mail-archive.com/**list@jaxlug.org/maillist.xml<http://www.mail-archive.com/list@jaxlug.org/maillist.xml> > Unsubscribe list-unsubscr...@jaxlug.org > >
