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#378 – An Interview with Jason Kridner and Robert Nelson
Welcome Jason Kridner (@Jadon) and Robert Nelson of the Beagleboard.org board!
- Jason was one of our first guests on TAH, episode 59!
- The original Beagleboard ran angstrom and Maimo (sp?)
- Users of the Nokia N900 helped to port to the processor platform.
- Debootstrap
- Golden delicious – open moko
- Beagle x15
- Device tree
- AM35xx
- uBoot
- Where (and how) to start building your own images: on an x15 because it’s fast
- Yocto project
- Pocket Beagle. Chris complained about the headers for the pocketbeagle.
- The new SIP is from Octavo.
- Tom Bewley from UCSD teaches a course using the BeagleBone blue. It runs Ardupilot and other robot/drone software out of the box
- Ken Shirriff’s episode
- A memory management unit is usually the delimitation between embedded and full blown linux
- PRUs – programmable realtime unit
- BeagleLogic – Sigrok
- 3.8 is the most used kernel
- gist for coding pru
- e-ale.org
- Cloud9 ide
- NodeRed – NodeJS
- Config pin tool
- Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)
- Weekly images for continuous integration
- GCC test suite
- The AM3358 is ARMv7, A8
- Embedded.fm specter meltdown
- Thumb2 allows 16 bit and 32 bit but broke a lot of stuff.
- Best image to start with: stretch stable – 4.9
- Etcher.io
- where to get support
- Beagleboard group – google groups
- IRC channel – beagle