BeaglePlay Reaches Upstream PowerVR Graphics Milestone — A Win for Open Source and Our Community

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My Week in Code #4 is up:
https://programmershideaway.xyz/blog/post35/

Updates regarding BeaglePlay and BeagleConnect Freedom Zephyr support, MicroPython and BeagleBoard Rust Imager

#beagleplay #beagleconnect_freedom #zephyr #micropython #beagleboard #rustlang

My Week in Code #4

Updates regarding BeaglePlay and BeagleConnect Freedom Zephyr support, MicroPython and BeagleBoard Rust Imager

Programmer's Hideaway

A “Blue Screen Of Death” on the #BeaglePlay board, using the new DRM panic infrastructure contributed by my awesome colleague Jocelyn Falempe.

#linux #kernel #graphics

@eballetbo wrote a wiki page for people who want to install #Fedora Linux in the #BeaglePlay board https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BeaglePlay
BeaglePlay - Fedora Project Wiki

Using the same final image:

Baletcha: I went through thirteen perfectly good cards; it failed every time at the end of validation at 98%. I do not know how many times I re-imaged each of those cards but it was a lot.

Raspberry Pi imager with the custom image option: failed all but the last time. Fine, whatever.

It worked perfectly when I booted it with #BeaglePlay

Vulkan triangle example running on
#BeaglePlay board with today’s
@fedora rawhide and no additional packages. May not seem a big deal but it’s quite exciting for someone who started his Linux Arm journey more than a decade ago working with a TI OMAP3 platform! #linux #graphics #fedora

Camera drivers for beagleplay/beaglebone-AI-64 finally got merged in mainline linux!! ^_^
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b4a3d877dc92

#BeagleBoard #BeaglePlay #CSI #embedded #linux

media: ti: Add CSI2RX support for J721E · torvalds/linux@b4a3d87

TI's J721E uses the Cadence CSI2RX and DPHY peripherals to facilitate capture over a CSI-2 bus. The Cadence CSI2RX IP acts as a bridge between the TI specific parts and the CSI-2 protocol part...

GitHub

For those into #HomeAssistant #HomeAutomation and experimentation:

#BeaglePlay Project: https://beagleboard.org/p/andrei1998/beagleplay-zigbee-home-automation-using-homeassistant-324e63#toc-now--let-s-add-the-zigbee-integration-to-homeassistant-10

As we're on the subject: for anyone interested in jumping head first into home automation without risking hitting the ground, I heavily recommend the Home Assistant Bundles on Ameridroid: https://ameridroid.com/collections/main-page/products/odroid-n2-home-assistant-blue-bundle-limited-edition

BeaglePlay + Zigbee Home Automation Using HomeAssistant

Unleash the power of Zigbee and HomeAssistant using the low cost BeaglePlay By Andrei Aldea.

BeagleBoard Projects

So did the kernel upgrade to bbb.io-kernel-6.1-ti-k3-am62 for #BeaglePlay

journalctl pulling a redrum was so not my idea of a good time. Downgrading now.

So I've been flashing different versions of BeagleBone's debian OS on my #BeagleBoneBlack and #BeaglePlay and I have feelings.

Current Images:
BeaglePlay: beagleplay-debian-11.7-xfce-arm64-2023-05-18-10gb.img.xz
BeagleBoneBlack: am335x-debian-11.7-xfce-armhf-2023-05-03-4gb.img.xz

As I have my first Cybersecurity exam tomorrow, of course I decided to flash some new SD cards to check out the new images and how stable they are.

Short version: very stable
Long version: coming next!