On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Przemek Klosowski <[email protected]> wrote: > You are a great prospect to do something interesting with a Beaglebone > because you have a specific application. I quite agree with you that > getting a BBB to blink LEDs or serve web pages is not that > exciting---but it probably is a good exercise for familiarizing > yourself with the system, especially if you never used Linux or > embedded systems like BBB before. Just like flying, you have to start > with simple things before you do aerobatics. > > Regarding a choice between RPI and BBB, I think people overstate the > differences between them. They both run Debian Linux derivatives, and > software should port between them just fine. Yes, there may be more > software built specifically for RPi, but if you limit yourself to > pre-baked software in this way, I don't think there's a lot of novel > stuff that can be done with it---most interesting applications involve > some sort of porting anyway. As far as I am concerned, both RPi and > BBB are interesting but RPi has an older and slower processor that is > a little bit of a dead end in terms of architectural support. It also > lacks the cool PRU unit, resulting in great flexibility and speed of > GPIO on BBB. Finally, the graphics acceleration on RPi is quite > proprietary although the BBB situation isn't that great yet, > either---although it's expected to improve any time now. >
How would one find out about the state of accelerated graphics on the bbb? I'm particular interested in running wayland with 3d acceleration on the bbb. I'd love to hear that the work was being upstreamed and make easy (at least easy w.r.t. people that know about this stuff) to consume and use. Chris -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
