[fedora-arm] beaglebone?

[Robert Nelson]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Kévin Raymond
> <shaiton at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> Hi, isn't the BeagleBone using the same processor than the BeagleBoard
>> (same Cortex A8)
>
> There´s a BeagleBone A6
> http://t.co/v7N9jbxj
>
> and also a previous version was A3...
> http://t.co/dAPT3PzM
>
> not sure if there´s a later version that is A8...

The BeagleBone uses a TI AM3358, based off TI's Sitara AM335x family
of Cortex-A8 based devices..  Think of it as a cross between the
BeagleBoard's DM3730, other OMAP4 enhancements and DaVinci's
networking..

Mainline support is currently being pushed upstream, v3.6.x should be
the first to boot the device to a console prompt using device tree..

Currently the beagleboard.org community is maintaining a v3.2.x based tree at:

https://github.com/beagleboard/kernel

With plans to move back to mainline as soon as a basic mainline kernel
can boot once again, as the v3.2 kernel is a large fork..

For reference, this is the same (but updated) kernel currently
shipping in community Angstrom and Ubuntu/Debian images..

You can use the same 'userspace' image's built for the BeagleBoard,
but you'll have to update the bootloader. (MLO/u-boot.img) from:
http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/demo/beaglebone/

Or you can use u-boot v2012.07-rc1, which i just successfully booted
on a BeagleBone yesterday..

Regards,

-- 
Robert Nelson
http://www.rcn-ee.com/