Choosing a board

[Samir Sow]

Hi there,

I'm considering buying a board to test the promising Nerves framework. :)

Can i go for RPi or should i go the safe way with BBB ?

An other question is it possible to perform the cross compilation work on a remote server (centos), than download the image on my laptop (mac) and use mmccopy to transfer the binary on the microsd card ? 

Thank you

Sincerely

Samir

[Frank Hunleth]

Hi Samir,

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 4:21 PM, Samir Sow <sami...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm considering buying a board to test the promising Nerves framework. :)
> Can i go for RPi or should i go the safe way with BBB ?

I've been using RPi Model B's and Model A+'s a lot recently, so those
may actually be better supported at the moment. I know others who are
using BBB's in production with Nerves, but I'm not sure how much they
watch this mailing list. Just so you know, the version of Linux I use
for the BBB works well for me, but trails the officially supported
ones.

I'd love to try Nerves out on a RPI 2, but so far I haven't done it.
It should be very close to working, but you may run into issues.

>
> An other question is it possible to perform the cross compilation work on a
> remote server (centos), than download the image on my laptop (mac) and use
> mmccopy to transfer the binary on the microsd card ?

I know a couple people who build Nerves on a remote server, so it's
possible. The development cycle sounds really time consuming to me if
you're going to do a lot of Nerves work. I believe the way that they
make it work for them is to do most of their development on their Macs
or on device (with a Debian or Raspian install). Then when they want
to package everything up for production, they use Nerves.

FWIW, the big constraint to building Nerves locally on a Mac is the
use of Buildroot. I've heard that some people use Buildroot on one of
the BSDs. Not being a Mac person, I don't know how far away Buildroot
is from working under OSX. I suspect not close, but if you do end up
using Nerves, it might be worth doing some Google searches. I'd
certainly integrate any changes, since I think quite a few people are
in your situation as well.

Frank

>
> Thank you
>
> Sincerely
>
> Samir
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[Samir Sow]

So i'll choose the cheaper :)

Thank you Frank.

Samir