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 […]