Is the low level firmware open source?
I know it isn’t on the rpi, which runs a proprietary broadcom version of microsoft threadx.
Is this TI’s attempt into the ARM space? This is the first time I see an ARM made by TI… what’s the mainline support of those like? I like the board and specs, it’s actually interesting that even with sourcing a chip from TI you can still sell a board for 70$, makes me think of how overpriced Rockchip boards are…
BeagleBoards have always used TI Arm chips. I’m guessing they mostly sell to OEMs so they don’t seem as common but they’ve been doing it a while.
TI made a lot of the early arm chips up until like 10 years ago. Last I heard of a TI ARM chip was like the galaxy nexus? They’re definitely not new to this space.
They’re new into those high performance , multi core ARM architectures.
A decade ago pretty much everything was made by TI (including a bunch of Nokia phones, like the N900 or N9) - but they cancelled a lot of their stuff around the time the Elopocalypse hit Nokia.
I still have a bunch of devboards from that time, as well as a TouchBook from AlwaysInnovating - had high hopes for that one, but sadly never made it, but was copied by others.
Yes yes, but I was under the impression that didn’t care about those markets anymore.
I just ignore beagleboard.org after encountering the hardware bug in this article:
The final official word from TI on this problem:
“There is no solution for this on the BB Black“
This sucks. If you are thinking of using a Beagle Bone Black for anything important… then don’t.
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You do not want to live in an ecosystem where a deal-breaker problem like this could happen at all, and not be fixed several years and board revs later.
– https://wp.josh.com/2018/06/04/a-software-only-solution-to-the-vexing-beagle-bone-black-phy-issue/
I had a Blue that would just randomly decide to turn off wifi. The whole platform is stupid if you ask me. The images they give you are Debian, I’d rather have something targeted at embedded given the specs. The PRU seems interesting but looks like a real PITA to write code for.
