On 6/17/2014 11:17 PM, William Hermans wrote: > > Anyway, the board sound interesting, but personally I think they went the > wrong direction in removing the eMMC. and am pretty sure it can be disabled > via device tree overlays if additional IO's are needed ( which really wont > give you many back anyway.).HDMI on the other hand, I'd never miss.
I suspect this board is mostly intended as an update to the original BeagleBone White. Yes, you can disable eMMC on a 'Black with the cape manager, but the system is still setup to boot from eMMC. If you want to use the eMMC pins on a black you need to make sure they are not loaded/driven until the system has booted, which is a pain (and many capes originally designed for the 'White don't do this). Also, the eMMC overlaps with the GPMC bus, which is the best/only way to get a general purpose high speed bus off the chip to interface to something like an FPGA. Anyone designing a system using the GMPC is required to disable the eMMC and run from uSD anyway. I'm mostly hoping this pulls some of the commercial users away from using the stock BBB, leaving more for the community. I figure there's a reason the board has the specs it has, and I suspect it's based on who's buying them in quantity. :) -- Charles Steinkuehler [email protected] -- 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.
