[FZH] 有興趣搞嵌入式嗎？ Fwd: [beagleboard] ANNOUNCEMENT: Annual State of the Beagle Report 2011

[Caius 'kaio' Chance]

我是說有興趣的自己買一塊，一起玩。

我沒有錢給你們發板子， sorry。

Rgds, Caius 'kaio' Chance - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:kaio (sent
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On 28/02/2011 12:35 AM, "xiaobo" <kfihihc於gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 在 2011-02-27日的 19:25 +0800，cheng chen写道：
>
> > 参赛发板子？
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Caius 'kaio' Chance <
kaio於fedoraproject.org
> > > wrote:
> >
> > > 我買了一塊 xM，大家有沒有興趣搞這個？
>
> 免费发一块给我还差不多，XD……
> 我都是在学校实验室搞的……
>
>
> > > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > > From: Jason Kridner <jkridner於beagleboard.org>
> > > Date: Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:22 PM
> > > Subject: [beagleboard] ANNOUNCEMENT: Annual State of the Beagle Report
2011
> > > To: Beagle Board <beagleboard於googlegroups.com>
> > >
> > >
> > > My apologies for the tardiness of this report.  2010 was the busiest
> > > year yet for BeagleBoard.org and the rest of 2011 looks to be even
> > > busier with more people learning and teaching about low-power
> > > open-source development with the BeagleBoard, more interesting
> > > derivative hardware designs and add-ons that improve what you can
> > > build with what you've learned, more software distributions supporting
> > > the BeagleBoard in their mainline offerings and overall improved
> > > experiences as the platform and community evolve.
> > >
> > > *********************
> > > Google Summer of Code
> > > *********************
> > > One of my highlights for 2010 was the BeagleBoard.org mentorship in
> > > the Google Summer of Code.  We mentored 6 students to successfully
> > > complete projects ranging from ARM assembly optimizations within the
> > > XBMC media center project to building a USB packet sniffer you can use
> > > with your own hardware.  There were also projects on optimizing
> > > OpenCV, simplifying use of the C6x DSP, performing pulse width
> > > modulation and providing an ARM-optimized FFT library.  Each of the
> > > students was given $5,000 for their efforts by Google and have
> > > provided their source code that you can use in your own projects.
> > >
> > > Hunyue, Vladimir, Mans and I all visited Google for the mentor summit
> > > and interacted with hundreds of developers helping to advance the
> > > state of open source.  We learned that Google is planning to expand
> > > the program in 2011, so it is time to get started, so please help
> > > update the idea page and register yourself as a prospective mentor if
> > > you'd like to participate.
> > >
> > > For more information, visit http://beagleboard.org/gsoc.
> > >
> > > **********************************
> > > TI/UT BeagleBoard Design Challenge
> > > **********************************
> > > Texas Instruments challenged students at the University of Texas to
> > > provide an open source design and present it for the world to vote
> > > upon.  Several interesting designs were created, including one picked
> > > up by PopSci.com.  For more information, visit
> > > http://www.ti.com/beagleboardchallenge.
> > >
> > > ********
> > > Projects
> > > ********
> > > The sponsored projects program died off last year as very few updates
> > > were being provided by the registered projects.  Lots of open source
> > > software and cool hardware projects continued to be developed with
> > > around 1,000 BeagleBoard-related blog posts in 2010 (a bit over 2,500
> > > all-time by my count) that ended up in the BeagleBoard.org RSS feed,
> > > but the board giveaways had very little to do with it.  If you are
> > > someone who is very interested in that program or you have an update
> > > regarding your project, there are still giveaways from Gumstix, Always
> > > Innovating, Archos and others (including BeagleBoards) if you can show
> > > that you've had some interesting progress and want to try putting your
> > > code on one of those platforms.  If you give good feedback we can
> > > update http://beagleboard.org/contest to reflect that feedback and
> > > relaunch the program.
> > >
> > > While significant progress has come from projects like Linaro, Ubuntu,
> > > MeeGo and now Yocto providing direct support for the BeagleBoard, I
> > > think the real progress in improving the project output will be in
> > > improving the http://beagleboard.org/project page to include a
> > > database of project build, functionality and test updates.  The idea
> > > is to create scripts that can be included with project build and test
> > > scripts to utilize OAuth to provide database entries that can be
> > > browsed quickly to show project activity without ever needing to visit
> > > the site.  Contact me on IRC for more details if you'd like to
> > > contribute.  Project source will be part of the website source tree.
> > > This will also be something I'll be talking about as part of
> > > BeagleCast, something I'll be discussing at the bottom of this report.
> > >
> > > ***********************************
> > > xM Launch, Availability and Pricing
> > > ***********************************
> > > The big story for 2010 was the launch of the BeagleBoard-xM, which
> > > brought the BeagleBoard to 1GHz and 512MB RAM, as well as adding
> > > additional USB host ports and Ethernet.  The revision has been well
> > > received and distributors have had trouble keeping stock on both this
> > > revision as well as the pre-xM boards.  Digi-Key has been getting
> > > hundreds of boards a week of both revisions and the typical wait on
> > > back-orders has been under 2 weeks, but every time distributors start
> > > to show stock additional orders have come in.  The moral of the story
> > > is don't wait for the distributors to show stock if you want to get a
> > > board--just place your order and you'll get a board pretty quick.
> > > CircuitCo is working on increasing its capacity and with large
> > > back-orders from distributors being placed ahead of orders from end
> > > customers, we expect the situation not to get worse than a few weeks
> > > wait and by mid-year to actually have some inventory.  Even TI has
> > > started placing some orders to try to build up some inventory of xM
> > > boards.
> > >
> > > Gerald had initially built in some pad for purchasing 1GB RAMs after
> > > the initial switch-over costs were covered, but we felt a price drop
> > > was more in order, enabling us to drop the price of the xM boards
> > > enough for some distributors to provide them for as low as $149--the
> > > price of the pre-xM board.  Improvements in test yields and increased
> > > volume purchases also enabled Gerald and CircuitCo to lower the price
> > > of the pre-xM board allowing it to be sold at some distributors for
> > > just $125.  We aren't yet to $99, but I am starting to feel like we
> > > could get there at some point in the future.
> > >
> > > We are still discouraging anyone using the board in production devices
> > > without making a direct isolated deal with CircuitCo (or the
> > > manufacturer of your choice) such that all our supply doesn't get
> > > eaten up for new people getting the platform.  (Guys, make your own
> > > spin, the TI component pricing is on the web and it can be done at a
> > > reasonable cost around the same price for which we are selling the
> > > boards today if you can get a fair price on the memories.)
> > > Availability of production volume SOM/COMs using the TI
> > > DaVinci/Sitara/OMAP devices that are providing migration support from
> > > the BeagleBoard are increasing, including AM35x-based boards available
> > > for as little as $45 and tiny boards that include WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS
> > > and more.  Open source hardware reference designs like the AM3517
> > > CraneBoard are meant to further enable such developments.  Please
> > > support the growth of the BeagleBoard.org and embedded Linux ecosystem
> > > by evaluating those solutions and encouraging these vendors to support
> > > the mainline distribution projects.  Please help me update the
> > > http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/OMAP3_Boards wiki page to
> > > include these BeagleBoard alternatives and feel free to discuss them
> > > on this mailing list, though you likely need to contact the
> > > manufacturer to discover the proper support forum if you are having
> > > issues related to the hardware or software they provide.
> > >
> > > *************
> > > What is next?
> > > *************
> > > Gerald has some minor modifications planned to the pre-xM and xM
> > > boards to bring in the latest revision of power management device, but
> > > that should not result in any software impact.  Where you are more
> > > likely to see differences out-of-the-box on some future board revision
> > > this year is in the software distributed on the board.  We are
> > > encouraging CircuitCo to pull down a more complete copy of the
> > > Angstrom Distribution aligned completely with what is being assembled
> > > with Narcissus to ship with the boards to better show the
> > > functionality.  This will in no way prevent you from running Android
> > > (as from the Rowboat project), Ubuntu, Yocto, MeeGo, FreeBSD, QNX,
> > > Windows Embedded or any other software on your BeagleBoard.  If you
> > > care about what this software will look like, please review the
> > > release candidate images Koen has been posting links on the mailing
> > > list and provide feedback.
> > >
> > > Part of what is motivating an in-the-box distribution release is the
> > > need to provide students being educated using the BeagleBoard platform
> > > a known starting point that helps them reach success early.  The
> > > requirements for this effort are being discussed in the BeagleBoard
> > > Linux Education Project and seek to improve the materials Mark Yoder
> > > has been creating for his university course on embedded Linux.  If you
> > > care to get involved with this project, introductory details can be
> > > found at http://beagleboard.org/linux_education.  Be on the lookout
> > > for a Google Summer of Code project targeting these requirements.
> > >
> > > While not a BeagleBoard.org project, 2010 saw the launch of the
> > > PandaBoard focused on enabling open source mobile application
> > > framework developers access to the latest in mobile applications
> > > processors.  This has spawned a lot of interest if there would be an
> > > OMAP4 or multicore-A9 based BeagleBoard.  At this point it isn't
> > > clear, but if TI were to provide access to OMAP4 to the broad market
> > > (through TI distributors without any volume restrictions), then it
> > > would make sense to upgrade the BeagleBoard platform once the end-user
> > > experience can be ensured to meet or exceed the experience on the
> > > current pre-xM and xM platforms.  I can tell you it isn't eminent and
> > > that the release process would include the typical discussion of
> > > features here on the mailing list before anything was frozen, sampling
> > > of boards to active community members (which always results in
> > > pictures up on Flickr and discussion on the IRC channel) and a public
> > > launch plan.  There is certainly a chance that the BeagleBoard won't
> > > get updated until Cortex-A15 devices come out, but be assured the
> > > BeagleBoard.org effort is focused on longevity and education.
> > >
> > > In my mind, the BeagleBoard is the premier platform for embedded open
> > > source *software* hacking and education thanks to it being extremely
> > > low-power, small and capable of running full Linux distributions while
> > > having a rich hardware ecosystem.  If you are looking for something a
> > > bit more modular, in a case, with a battery, it seems to me something
> > > like the Bug Labs platform might be the way to go.  We even worked on
> > > a BeagleBoard-BugAdapter, but never brought it to market as I got my
> > > hands on a Bug2.0 and it is more fun just to play with it.  Still,
> > > hardware hackers cannot be deterred and there are now several
> > > registered companion boards [1] starting with our friends over at
> > > TinCanTools.  While the Zippy combo boards that add Ethernet aren't
> > > that popular now that the xM boards incorporated Ethernet on them,
> > > their Trainer board might see a bit more life as it is getting picked
> > > up for some educational projects on performing I2C and SPI
> > > interactions under Linux.  The Liquidware BeagleTouch and BeagleJuice
> > > add-ons also seem to be enjoying some public success.  Some SOM/COM
> > > vendors are finding the BeagleBoardPinMux EEPROM ID useful for
> > > maintaining a high degree of binary software compatibility with the
> > > BeagleBoard.  I think the news is that CircuitCo, as part of its
> > > BeagleBoardToys brand, is looking to partner with more individuals and
> > > small entities looking to bring out more BeagleBoard extending
> > > hardware and that might mean a few more options to extend your
> > > BeagleBoard hardware in 2011.
> > >
> > > [1] http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardPinMux#Vendor_and_Device_IDs
> > >
> > > ************************************
> > > Open Source Shows and the BeagleWall
> > > ************************************
> > > I won't even attempt to list all of the open source shows where the
> > > BeagleBoard had a presence in 2010 or will have a presence in 2011,
> > > but I highly encourage you to get on the mailing list and announce if
> > > you are interested in showing off anything you've done at one of the
> > > regional shows around the world.  My favorite of these show-off demos
> > > recently *has* to be the BeagleWall.  Originally assembled by folks in
> > > the FFmpeg project (notably Mans) and friends over at Archos
> > > (Vladimir, the infamous av500), Koen got the TI team in Europe to put
> > > together a stand that looks a bit more official (boards aren't lying
> > > around on a nearby radiator any more).  You can find plenty of
> > > pictures of the BeagleWall at FOSDEM 2011 by searching on Flickr and
> > > YouTube.
> > >
> > > Given the sheer number of events, I'm trying to get a bit more
> > > organized by placing them in the BeagleBoard.org Google Calender that
> > > is now featured on the home page of BeagleBoard.org.  I request for
> > > you to notify me of any events that you don't see up there and to
> > > suggest we discuss the upcoming event on BeagleCast...
> > >
> > > **********
> > > BeagleCast
> > > **********
> > > What the heck is BeagleCast?  Well, you can probably tell from the
> > > name that Gerald and I are looking to hork in on (meaning to steal)
> > > the action of the likes of TWiT (This Week in Tech) and The Amp Hour
> > > by doing an audio webcast.  This will never get done unless we
> > > publicly commit to it, like we are doing right here, right now.  Give
> > > us a month or so to get the first one out, but this will give us a
> > > forum for discussing the challenges being faced by community
> > > developers, upcoming open source tradeshows, technology related to
> > > high-performance, low-power open source software and hardware and why
> > > 26 + 26 = 54.  It will also force me to dedicate a set time for
> > > tackling the top questions on the mailing list and IRC channel.
> > >
> > > Of course, this won't take off without getting participation from the
> > > community and getting some good guests to talk about the cooler
> > > aspects of embedded Linux and DIY computing, so I strongly request for
> > > you to submit ideas on guest/permanent hosts, topics, format, etc.
> > > You can even call-in with pre-recorded questions.  If you couldn't
> > > tell from visiting #beagle in the past, heavy doses of sarcasm are
> > > encouraged.
> > >
> > > Here's where to provide the inputs and call-ins:
> > > http://bit.ly/bcsuggest
> > > +1 (713) 234-0535
> > > http://beagleboard.blogspot.com may have a Google Voice widget,
> > > depending on your Flash settings and if the current sun flare
> > > activity.
> > >
> > > That's it!  See you on the intertubes!
> > >
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> > >
> > > --
> > > Regards ☺ Caius 'kaio' Chance
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