BeagleBox

All the parts arrived by last Tuesday and I was able to boot the board using the validation images.  I explored the u-boot environment and dug around the root file system to see what the BeagleBoard folks had put together.  I booted the board using the serial console and connected […]

BeagleBox: reality sets in – boot issues

 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / TV  tagged beagleboard / BeagleBox / boot process / BUI / buildroot / DSS / dvi / Linux / LPDDR / mplayer / NTSC / omap / root filesystem / S-Video / sd card / SGX / Video (updated 4957 days ago)
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I ported over Angstrom’s recipe for the SGX libraries into the BeagleBox build this week.  It requires downloading the SGX SDK and unpacking it manually before you do the build.  Angstrom will unpack it for you.  And at the moment I’m not positive the layout I’ve created is completely correct […]

BeagleBox: SGX libs build, parts ordered, speeding up boot times

 in BeagleBox / Hardware  tagged beagleboard / BeagleBox / boot times / BUI / buildroot / Flash / flash player / gnash / kernel size / MontaVista / OpenGL / SDK / SGX / video playback (updated 4968 days ago)
I’m back from vacation and have been working on integrating Robert Nelson’s SGX patchset into the BeagleBox build.  These patches implement the SGX kernel drivers for the BeagleBoard found in the OMAP35x_Graphics_SDK package for Linux.  This allows building the SGX kernel modules with the rest of the kernel build instead […]

BeagleBox: SGX integration progress

 in BeagleBox / Hardware  tagged beagleboard / BeagleBox / BUI / kernel driver / Launchpad / Linux / PSP / root filesystem / SDK / SGX
Last Friday I finished updating the kernel build for the BeagleBoard to support building a kernel suitable for use with the SGX drivers.  The build depends on the kernel patches from the TI AM35xx/OMAP35xx PSP SDK.  In order to make it easier to build BeagleBox I decided to extract just […]

BeagleBox: SGX kernel build ready

 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / Software Development  tagged beagleboard / BeagleBox / BUI / DIYers / kernel patches / omap / SGX / sourceforge
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I’ve updated the Design page to reflect the knowledge I’ve acquired about the OMAP SGX and DSP.  There’s still some work to be done in understanding exactly how Clutter fits into that picture but I’ll get there eventually. In the meantime I’ve completed stripping out the theme support from the […]

BeagleBox: Stripping themes, new bugdb project, updated Design

 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / Software Development  tagged BeagleBox / BUI / DSP / flyspray / OSD / set top box / SGX / Xft
I’m working two main issues at the moment:  stripping Matchbox to get a new BUI core and working on building and packaging the SGX SDK drivers.  The former is going well.  I’ve stripped session management and gconf already and checked those in.  I’ve got themes stripped down so that the […]

BeagleBox: Adjusting the design, learning about SGX and DSP

 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / Software Development  tagged beagleboard / BeagleBox / BUI / DSP / Flash / gnash / kernel / Linux / matchbox / OpenGL / PSP / root filesystem / SDK / session management / SGX
I’m in the process of doing an analysis of the Matchbox code to determine what needs to change in it to create BUI.  So far I’ve mapped out the basic code flow and identified the purposes of the files within the window manager, which is where I’m starting the analysis.  […]

BeagleBox: kernel update, BUI initial release and analysis progress

 in BeagleBox / General / Hardware / Linux / Software Development  tagged beagleboard / BeagleBox / buildroot / crosstool / dockbar / flyspray / matchbox / omap / qemu / SGX / sourceforge / surf / Xephyr / xterm (updated 5013 days ago)
I decided a fork of Matchbox made the most sense for the BeagleBox UI.  There isn’t much activity in Matchbox and the developers are busy with other projects.  Besides, Matchbox is for hand helds while BeagleBox is an STB. The fork is named BUI, for BeagleBox UI. Not too original, […]

BeaglBox: BeagleBox UI (BUI) initialized in CVS

 in BeagleBox / General / Hardware / Linux / Software Development / X11  tagged BeaglBox / BeagleBox / BUI / matchbox / STB (updated 5017 days ago)
I signed up for the Matchbox mailing list last night and have just sent a request to find out the status of the project.  While I was waiting for confirmation of my sign-up last night I started a metabuild for Matchbox.  Essentially its just like the metabuild used by BeagleBox, […]

BeagleBox: Matchbox metabuild to generate patches for buildroot

 in BeagleBox / General / Hardware / Linux / Software Development / X11  tagged BeagleBox / buildroot / matchbox / metabuild (updated 5017 days ago)
The version of Matchbox’s panel and desktop programs in buildroot are pre-1.0.  The latest available from Matchbox’s site are 2.0.  I tried to patch buildroot so that the 2.0 panel would build.  This required disabling dbus during the configure and patching the applets/Makefile.in to prevent the notify applet from building.  […]

BeagleBox: Matchbox revision issues

 in BeagleBox / General / Hardware / Linux / Software Development / X11  tagged BeagleBox / BUI / buildroot / matchbox / Matchbox-panel / OpenEmbedded / qemu (updated 5017 days ago)