Re: state of beaglebone black

On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 10:04 AM Zach Metzinger <zmetzing@pobox.com> wrote:

> On 9/22/25 05:27, Hellmuth Michaelis wrote:
> > On the beaglebones here i (think i) run 13.2 without any problems and i
> > have failed to get 14.something up and running. Is 13.2 the last version
> >   for the bbb ? Is someone still working on it ?
>
> I have -13.5 built for my BBGs (which are just BBB without the HDMI
> framer, etc.). Seems to work fine for my use cases.
>
> I am interested in keeping armv7 (32-bit) going for my devices in the
> field. As I've recently posted, they seem far more robust than the RPi
> boards. However, I've also been looking at the "PocketBeagle 2" boards,
> which are 64-bit, to replace them.
>

The DTS format changed in upstream Linux. In theory, DTS is supposed to be
OS agnostic, but some systems, like TI's boards, that evolve the DTS
quickly. Oskar has been working to update all the drivers to the latest DTS
we have in the tree. I'm not sure what the status of that work is, so I've
cc'd him.

Warner