Latest code and scripts are working for me on BeagleBone...

[Warner Losh]

On Oct 12, 2012, at 7:55 AM, George Neville-Neil wrote:

> 
> On Oct 12, 2012, at 04:39 , Oliver Fromme <olli at lurza.secnetix.de> wrote:
> 
>> Well, yes ...  Since ARM ist still a tier-3 platform (AFAIK),
>> releases probably won't happen in the near future.
>> 
> 
> Though it could move up a tier as we  get more of this moving along.

I thought it already was tier 2.  It meets all the criteria...

>> I've seen Steven's comment.  That's the direction that I had
>> in mind.  Much appreciated -- Thank you, Steven!
>> 
> 
> Let me talk to folks on the clusteradm@ list and see if there
> is a good place we can collect these that makes them a bit
> more official looking.  At 4G that's a lot of download, especially
> once we get images for the Pi.

That would be cool.

>> Of course I'm aware that such images haven't gone through
>> extensive testing and quality assurance like release images.
>> But it's something that gets people started very quickly
>> who just want to try it out without wanting to (or being
>> able to) build a working system image themselves.  Or people
>> who would like to evaluate the platform for a certain
>> purpose (like me).
>> 
>> I'm sure that ready-made images will help in spreading and
>> popularizing the platform, and maybe it'll even attract
>> more developers to improve it and port it to more boards,
>> and get it to tier-2 more quickly.  But maybe that's just
>> wishful thinking.  :-)
>> 
> 
> I don't think it's wishful.

I'd love to have a collection of arm and armv6 packages from ports too...

It would also be helpful if we could have a single-image kernel that boots on at least all the armv6 processors...

Warner