An Interview with Jason Kridner and Robert Nelson

Welcome Jason Kridner (@Jadon) and Robert Nelson of the Beagleboard.org board!

• Jason was one of our first guests on TAH, episode 59!
• The original Beagleboard ran angstrom and Maimo (sp?)
• Users of the Nokia N900 helped to port to the processor platform.
• Debootstrap
• Golden delicious - open moko
• Beagle x15
• Device tree
• AM35xx
• uBoot
• Where (and how) to start building your own images: on an x15 because it's fast
• Yocto project
• Pocket Beagle. Chris complained about the headers for the pocketbeagle.
• The new SIP is from Octavo.
• Tom Bewley from UCSD teaches a course using the BeagleBone blue. It runs Ardupilot and other robot/drone software out of the box
• Ken Shirriff's episode
• A memory management unit is usually the delimitation between embedded and full blown linux
• PRUs - programmable realtime unit
• BeagleLogic - Sigrok
• 3.8 is the most used kernel
• gist for coding pru
• e-ale.org
• Cloud9 ide
• NodeRed - NodeJS
• Config pin tool
• Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)
• Weekly images for continuous integration
• GCC test suite
• The AM3358 is ARMv7, A8
• Embedded.fm specter meltdown
• Thumb2 allows 16 bit and 32 bit but broke a lot of stuff.
• Best image to start with: stretch stable - 4.9
• Etcher.io
• where to get support
  • Beagleboard group - google groups
  • IRC channel - beagle