BeagleBox: X is working, stability and optimization still to come.
Sunday, February 13th, 2011Today I finally brought X up on the BeagleBoard! The configuration is not ideal and there is much work to be done to stabilize and optimize it, but at least X is running. Here is how I get it done with BeagleBox. What to build to get X running with the BeagleBox build system: XCC [...]
BeagleBox: finding Mr. DSS2
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010Trying to come to grips with the myriad of source trees from which BeagleBoard related source can be pulled, I updated the BeagleBoard build system the other day to make it easier to pull from the various archives. Technically there are four ways to get source related to BeagleBoard: A compressed tarball from a main [...]
BeagleBox: tmpfs for writes, for now, but new u-boot required
Monday, November 15th, 2010It’s a wonder what you can get done once the board actually boots up to a shell prompt. Tonight I completed setup of inittab and boot scripts – along with customization of the rootfs build – to force writes normally bound for the rootfs to end up on a tmpfs mount. I used angstrom’s model [...]









