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I am going to be working on an "BeagleBone Black" that will be running an Debian Linux distro.
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Current plan is to use "AM3358 Debian 10.3 2020-04-06 1GB SD console"
My questions are about the pros and cons of using an cross GCC toolchain versus an native toolchain.
The programming language will be C.
The pros I know about for cross compiling is that it will normally be faster build times. And, that is the only pro and con I know about.
Tim S.
What sort of programs do you intend to write.
Regular user-space programs or kernel/driver hacking?
If you're messing with the kernel at all, then a cross-compiler might be a better idea.
You don't want some "oops" to cause you to lose both the OS and your latest code all at the same time.
Though that could be mitigated by having all your development code on a shared drive, and keeping a cloned backup of the target with all the tools and setup just the way you like it.
How would you get the build products onto the board from the host?
Shared drive / scp / rsync?
Or sneakernet?
Do you have spare keyboards / mouse / monitor to set up the board as your development system?
Alternatively, you could access it through remote desktop (rdp / vnc).
Regular user-space programs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Salem
At first the OS and user-space programs will all be on a microSD card.
The long term location of the Linux OS and user-space programs is still under consideration.
I plan to use a Debian package to install my user-space program.
There is an on-board MMC called eMMC that I am thinking where we will put the Linux OS and user-space program.
And, I think the data will be placed on the external microSD card or USB drive.
I have not yet gotten the hardware; so, not really certain how it will be done.Quote:
Originally Posted by Salem
My guess the way I do it will differ from the way the end user will do it.
Doing initial development I plan to use either an USB cable or cross Ethernet cable to load the user program to the embedded hardware.
And, will be replacing the microSD card to load the Linux Debian OS.
I will be using an downloaded Linux image to be written via windows machine to microSD card.
The embedded hardware has a web based IDE that I will start out using if it works very well. The on-line info implies some people have issues using it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Salem
So, I will access the web based IDE using my Windows machine.
Tim S.
From your questions I have decide I need to keep an copy of all my microSD card images.
I already planned to do that. But, the number of different images need has gone up as result of your questions.
A. An image with development environment
B. An image with end user OS environment
C. An image with end user data file folders
Image A will have the user data file folders on that card.
Image B will be loaded into internal MMC during final development.
Image C will be placed on the external microSD during initial development and on an external USB during final development.
Looks like I will have to find an USB drive that works as soon as possible.
Tim S.
I use Fedora all the time, I am happy with everything, you can try it as an option
Not, going to try that for this project; the boss wishes to use the default Linux OS. I would pick ArchLinux instead if I was not using the default.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nick02
BeagleBoardFedora - eLinux.org
And, the above tells me no way!!!Quote:
Random hacking notes for getting Fedora 23 to kinda work with the BeagleBoard. ;)
Tim S.