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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 4962 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
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 5007 days ago)
I spent the weekend trying to figure out why I couldn’t get the XComposite extension to show up under the fbdev X driver under QEMU.  It took until Sunday night to figure out that I need the cirrus fbdev kernel driver along with turning on xdpyinfo, libXcomposite, and the Cirrus […]

BeagleBox: XComposite enabled under QEMU

 in BeagleBox / General / Hardware / Linux / Software Development / X11  tagged beagleboard / BeagleBox / BUI / buildroot / fbdev / kernel / kernel driver / libXcomposite / matchbox / OpenBox / qemu / xcompmgr / XComposite / xdpyinfo (updated 5011 days ago)
The build for the QEMU phase now runs Matchbox as the default UI.  I’ve integrated an xterm patch from Buildroot’s source tree and launch it as the default application, allowing some runtime testing through the UI. Today I also finished integration of the surf browser into the buld.  This was […]

BeagleBox update: Matchbox is now the default UI, surf ...

 in General  tagged beagleboard / BeagleBox / buildroot / GTK+ / matchbox / OpenEmbedded / qemu / thedailyshow / WebKit (updated 5025 days ago)
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I’ve gotten the embedded bug lately.  I dug around for an interesting hardware platform to work with and stumbled across the BeagleBoard.  This 3×3″ board provides impressive multimedia capabilities via the TI OMAP35xx processor.  It appears to serve the purpose I had long ago thought about for the miniITX boards […]

Announcing BeagleBox: Internet video platform for the BeagleBoard

 in BeagleBox / General / Hardware / Linux / Software Development / X11  tagged beagleboard / BeagleBox / blackbox window manager / BUI / hardware platform / matchbox / metabuild / multimedia / multimedia capabilities / MythTV / omap / pmwiki / qemu / sourceforge / surf / ui components / Video / video platform (updated 5011 days ago)