The Beagle Board will making a number of appearances over the next few weeks. Our very own Khasim Syed Mohammed will be at OSScamp July 19th in Bengaluru, India. In the UK, Koen Kooi and Måns Rullgård are looking to show off FFmpeg and Ångström at LugRadio Live on July 19-20. A BeagleBoard fan group […]
And the winners are… Sebastian Reschke Harald Krippel Ramiro Polla Kate Alhola Kees Jongenburger Eugen Dischke Davor Ocelic Robert Bohme Holger Wirtz Jan Luebbe Robert Schuster Florian Boor Each of the winners has now been contacted and we’re in the process of shipping the boards. My apologies for each of you who applied and were […]
It is the little things that make me happy sometimes, like Koen adding support for the Linux LED driver. Several triggers are possible, such as accessing the NAND, MMC/SD, or just a regular heartbeat, as Koen has demonstrated. To list off the possible triggers for the LED driver: The above shows the MMC/SD access trigger […]
Texas Instruments is hosting the BeagleBoard.org booth at LinuxTag 2008 on May 28-31. You will see Beagle board live demos and discuss open source topics at the booth – Hall 7.2a Stand 122. On Friday, May 30th, there is a two hour workshop about the open source project in workshop room 2 at noon. More […]
Continuing from last LUGRadio Live USA 2008 report, the recorded video, “The DSP is Open”, is now online and the links are shared on the LUGRadio Live forums. I’m caught speaking about DSP, Open Source + TI devices, and the Beagle Board. The slides are on-line here, as they are a bit difficult to read […]
Some may think of the BeagleBoard as just another embedded eval board, but its capabilities lie much closer to those of a computer. And as a computer, Beagle needs an OS. Though we are already running Linux, and it’s fine, there’s still something missing. Beagle needs a distro. On your PC you might use Fedora, […]
Thanks to Khasim Syed Mohammed, the recent OMAP community Linux kernel now contains basic patches for the BeagleBoard®! For initial boot of Linux on Beagle you don’t have to apply any additional patches, just download the community OMAP Linux kernel using git, do “make omap3_beagle_defconfig”, and enjoy booting your new kernel on Beagle. Khasim is just […]
A few people got to play with Beagle at LugRadio Live USA 2008. One attendee even did a small write-up in Chinese on Beagle and what else he saw at LRL. There was quite a bit of interest from many people who have never thought of “embedded/ARM” development before. I was a bit more surprised […]
Khasim has provided us with the first Linux sources and binaries for the Beagle Board. You can find them on the Beagle Board code.google.com page under BeagleSourceCode. Feel free to stop by the IRC channel (#beagle on irc.freenode.net) or the discussion group to learn more. Happy hacking! Update 2016-07-26: code.google.com removed a bunch of their […]