This week Jonathan chats with Andrei, Mahir, and Praneeth, live on location at Texas Instruments! The team at TI has been working hard to provide really good Open Source support for Sitara processors, including upstreaming support to the mainline Linux kernel. We talk about the CI pipeline for these devices, the challenges of doing Open Source at a big company, and more. Check it out!
- https://github.com/texasinstruments
- https://www.beagleboard.org/
- https://www.ti.com/design-development/software-design/open-source.html
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I really wanna make a Linux board just for the sake of it, but I wanna end up with something actually usable and not just a toy. ST, TI, NXP, etc all their offerings seem kinda anaemic. Single or dual core chips running at 1.2GHz max, LPDDR3 support, no DDR4 or DDR5.
And East Asian (Rockchip, Mediatek, etc) seem too obscure and untrustworthy despite their attractive prices and feature richness
Very confused. Anyone have any experience with this?
They’re more embedded focused rather than multimedia but on the TI side something like AM625 or AM62P get you up to 4xA53s and DDR4 / LPDDR4 support.
A big reason why you see a lot of DDR3 examples in tutorials is because it’s much easier to route and get something working – same as USB2 vs USB3.
If you can get your hands on it the Octavo OSD62x-PM that’s a nice route to take because you don’t need to worry about routing DDR4.
Linux on a toaster? They’re only 21 years behind NetBSD.
Did I miss something? What’s your favorite text editor and scripting language?