[hpsdr] OMAP3530 EVM with 2.6.27 Kernel

[Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan]

Alberto,

I too have a B6 version of BB running and I also got my own built of
the Angstrom. It is not very difficult at all. WHen you built
Angstrom/OE, it also builds the toolchain and I used the toolchain to
built my own programs and ran it successfully on the BB. I am yet to
use the DSP on the OMAP 3530. AFAIK, DSP JTAG is not exposed by the
BB.

For those experimenting with TI DSPs, there is a new sub-$100 JTAG
available called XDS100 from Olimex. I ordered one and it is stuck in
the customs for the past 2 weeks. I will report results here once I
get it.

And the next version of TI CCS IDE is going to be eclipse based and
will run on GNU/Linux. Yes, they are non-free, but off late, TI had
been very friendly to Free Software movement and I believe they are
moving in the right direction.

regards
ramakrishnan vu3rdd
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Alberto I2PHD <i2phd at weaksignals.com> wrote:
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> Bob McGwier wrote:
>>
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>> As you can see, very late kernels run on the ARM Cortex-A8 but this is
>> very
>> much an open source linux process where things get fixed incrementally.
>> This is not for the end user who just wants to "use it" right this minute
>> as
>> you can see from color patching questions.  For now, we do not have a
>> driver
>> for the OpenGL-ES hardware so we will lose lots of speed for those wanting
>> to hook it to a monitor.
>>
>> Bob
>
> FWIW, I have been able to run the latest Angstrom distribution (Dec, 5,
> 2008) on my BB Rev.B5 (waiting for Rev. C)
> with X running at 1280 x 720, keyboard and mouse perfectly usable, and even
> a USB WiFi dongle that allows me to browse the Internet with the special
> version of Firefox that comes with that Angstrom release.
>
> Today I am experimenting with a USB 2.5" external drive, 320GB, and
> apparently it works. When the BB monitor program will be updated so to allow
> booting from an USB device that will be the way to go.
>
> But of course the very big next step would be that of installing a C
> compiler, have it working, and compile something compatible with the X on
> the BB. The fact that my foray into the Linux territory did start only a few
> weeks ago is of no help, however...
>
> I followed the instructions on this page :
> http://code.google.com/p/beagleboard/wiki/HowToGetAngstromRunning
>
> And the Angstrom kernel loaded was this one :
> <
> http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/demo/beagleboard/Angstrom-Beagleboard-demo-image-glibc-ipk-2008.1-test-20081205-beagleboard.rootfs.tar.bz2
>>
>
> 73  Alberto  I2PHD
>
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  Ramakrishnan

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