Beagle Bone Black

[Jim Patchell]

Has anybody gotten the Beagle Bone Black?  At $45, sure is tempting.

But I was also wondering has anybody done any Bare Metal programming on this thing?  I am pretty sure, that no matter how you use this thing (Linux or Bare Metal), one has to boot off of an SD card.  Am I wrong? (or right? in between?)  Does the normal GCC tool chains for ARM (code sourcery or Yagarto) compile code for the Cortex A8/A9?  Anyway, just curious.

-Jim

[Ron K. Jeffries]

Jim,

Early reviews of Beagle Bone Black have been positive. There is an Angstrom Linux distro configured for it (TI supports that effort). Other linux distros will require substantially more effort to get up and running.

There is GCC support.

There's a lot of terroitory between using linix on Beagle bone Black and going bare metal. 

There are several decent small memory footprint RTOS that can be used. 

Depending on your use case, Raspberry Pi can be a solid system, and there is a very large community using it.

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Ron K. Jeffries

805-567-4670

-Jim

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[Tom King]

I have a black I've been playing with for 2 months.   Love it...  

[Tom King]

You can programme it with javascript , or C using GCC or llvm and assembly for the realtime processors on it

[Preston Holmes]

Jim. I have one. So far seems like a great board.  It comes with angstrom installed on on board flash, no need to use an SD card. So fs paths to IO have changed from beagle bone white. Raspberry Pi seems to have a bit more of an ecosystem. 

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