From:  liyaoshi <[email protected]>
Reply-To:  "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date:  Thursday, July 31, 2014 at 6:34 PM
To:  "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject:  Re: [beagleboard] SPi, I2C, GPIO and Qt5 on BBB

> I have made a demo on iMX6
> 
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/ltnedy59gv5i70j/VID_20140723_084207.mp4
How did you get it to start so quickly? Do you have build instructions for
what you did?

Regards,
John
> 
> 
> 2014-08-01 6:45 GMT+08:00 Cédric Malitte <[email protected]>:
>> Looks like promising.
>> 
>> Yes Qt5 and wayland would be great for devs like me.
>> Qt without quick is like going steps back
>> 
>> Cédric Malitte
>> 
>> Le 2014-07-31 à 17:46, John Syn <[email protected]> a écrit :
>> 
>>> 
>>> From:  William Hermans <[email protected]>
>>> Reply-To:  "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>>> Date:  Thursday, July 31, 2014 at 2:36 PM
>>> To:  "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>>> Subject:  Re: [beagleboard] SPi, I2C, GPIO and Qt5 on BBB
>>> 
>>>> So all that remains is SGX / OGL support too . . . Is this likely ?
>>> Robert¹s build script does do this for you now. Perhaps he will find a way
>>> to simplify the process when he has time. TI still have to add xorg support.
>>> Not sure when that is going to happen.
>>> 
>>> I think that adding QT5 + Wayland to the BBB repository would be helpful.
>>> Several people are working on this so hopefully something will happen soon.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> John
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 1:39 PM, John Syn <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> From:  William Hermans <[email protected]>
>>>>> Reply-To:  "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>>>>> Date:  Tuesday, July 29, 2014 at 12:00 AM
>>>>> To:  "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>>>>> Subject:  Re: [beagleboard] SPi, I2C, GPIO and Qt5 on BBB
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Ah right, I was thinking in the context of 3.8.x version. 3.13.x is EOL I
>>>>>> believe ( meaning end of life )  That appears to be OpenGLES2, but frame
>>>>>> buffer support only.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> From what I understand, TI made the choice of "supporting" 3.13.x branch
>>>>>> with the SGX hardware. capremgr was in 3.8.x, and based on Roberts guide,
>>>>>> 3.15.x has better ethernet, and usb support.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> As for why the branches are done this way ? I'm not a kernel developer so
>>>>>> I'm not 100% sure. However I could imagine that it is a lot of work
>>>>>> setting all this up plus scripts / instructions for building etc. I've
>>>>>> seen Robert say several times "patches welcome", so I'm assuming he may
>>>>>> not wish to duplicate his own work across branches. But this is just
>>>>>> speculation on my own behalf.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I'd be willing myself to work on getting capemgr as is working on 3.8.x
>>>>>> into 3.15.x myself. But since I'm fairly inexperienced in this area I'd
>>>>>> need time, and a mentor ( as in to guide me, not to pay me ).
>>>>> Looks like the capemgr functionality will be in V3.17:
>>>>> 
>>>>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/7/27/57
>>>>> 
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> John
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 11:18 PM, Cedric Malitte
>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>> I just followed
>>>>>>> http://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBone+Black#BeagleBoneBlack-SG
>>>>>>> X for the opengl part, built against v3.13.11-bone12
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Must say I feel lost with all those features appearing and disappearing
>>>>>>> with the kernel releases.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Le mardi 29 juillet 2014 00:38:32 UTC-4, William Hermans a écrit :
>>>>>>> If you get OpenGLES working on the BBB I'd be interested in how you did
>>>>>>> it. I like to read about geeky things like this ;)  However last I
>>>>>>> remember this was not possible with the way software support is.
>>>>>>> Hopefully that will change if not already.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 8:35 PM, Cedric Malitte <[email protected]>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> Thanks William,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I tried to compile kernel 3.13, GFX libraries , all fine.
>>>>>>> Copied all the stuff on a SD card and booted... well, everything here
>>>>>>> but screen !
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I need to find how to enable LCD4 cape with new kernel.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> That said, I tried to compile qt4.8.6 with opengl es2 and I have an
>>>>>>> error:
>>>>>>> make[4]: entrant dans le répertoire «
>>>>>>> /home/cedric/qt4-bbb/downloads/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.6/src/pl
>>>>>>> ugins/gfxdrivers/powervr/QWSWSEGL »
>>>>>>> /home/cedric/bb-kernel/dl/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.8-2014.04_lin
>>>>>>> ux/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc -c -pipe -O3 -march=armv7-a
>>>>>>> -mtune=cortex-a8 -mfpu=neon -mfloat-abi=hard -Wall -W -fPIC
>>>>>>> -DQT_NO_QWS_CURSOR -DQT_QWS_CLIENTBLIT
>>>>>>> -I../../../../../mkspecs/qws/linux-TIarmv7-sgx-g++ -I.
>>>>>>> -I/home/cedric/qt4-bbb/downloads/tslib/src
>>>>>>> -I/home/cedric/bb-kernel/ignore/SDK_BIN/Graphics_SDK_setuplinux_5_01_01_
>>>>>>> 01/GFX_Linux_SDK/OGLES2/SDKPackage/Builds/OGLES2/Include
>>>>>>> -I/home/cedric/bb-kernel/ignore/SDK_BIN/Graphics_SDK_setuplinux_5_01_01_
>>>>>>> 01/GFX_Linux_SDK/OGLES2/SDKPackage/Builds/OGLES2/LinuxOMAP3/Include/
>>>>>>> -I/home/cedric/bb-kernel/ignore/SDK_BIN/Graphics_SDK_setuplinux_5_01_01_
>>>>>>> 01/include 
>>>>>>> -I/home/cedric/bb-kernel/ignore/SDK_BIN/Graphics_SDK_setuplinux_5_01_01_
>>>>>>> 01/GFX_Linux_SDK/OGLES/SDKPackage/Builds/OGLES/Include -o
>>>>>>> .obj/release-shared-emb-arm/pvrqwsdrawable.o pvrqwsdrawable.c
>>>>>>> In file included from pvrqwsdrawable.c:42:0:
>>>>>>> pvrqwsdrawable_p.h:56:19: fatal error: pvr2d.h: Aucun fichier ou dossier
>>>>>>> de ce type
>>>>>>>  #include <pvr2d.h>
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Means no such file, although I have applied patches from
>>>>>>> https://github.com/prabindh/qt-configs/tree/master/qt4.8
>>>>>>> <https://github.com/prabindh/qt-configs/tree/master/qt4.8>
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Still trying.....
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 2014-07-27 23:56 GMT-04:00 William Hermans <[email protected]>:
>>>>>>> Cedric, Hi,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> For starters: http://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBone+Black
>>>>>>> <http://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBone+Black>  this is Roberts
>>>>>>> "build your own" guide.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> http://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBone+Black#BeagleBoneBlack-Ro
>>>>>>> otFileSystem%28smallflash%29
>>>>>>> <http://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBone+Black#BeagleBoneBlack-R
>>>>>>> ootFileSystem%28smallflash%29>  This base image is around 75M in size
>>>>>>> for me without anything else installed. WIth openssh-server, and
>>>>>>> ntpdate, I think around 91M size total.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> As for the rest of your questions: I do not know personally. I do not
>>>>>>> use QT, or an LCD. As I run headless, and have no interest in either for
>>>>>>> my own purposes. Instead I use my own BBB as kind of a network appliance
>>>>>>> by using Nodejs.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Cedric Malitte <[email protected]>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> while waiting for the new kernel to compile, I ask for advices !
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I have a new project about reading sensors, analyzing them, and graph
>>>>>>> them on a portable unit.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I studied the "doable" thing on a PIC. It was fine to a certain point
>>>>>>> using a FT800 Eve chip for graphical LCD.
>>>>>>> Until... the mechanical engineer asked for new features like 20KSps
>>>>>>> sampling of 4 sensors....
>>>>>>> Too much amount of data for a simple pic circuitry. To be able to do
>>>>>>> that, I'll have to use buffers and so on...
>>>>>>> So exit the PIC, welcome BBB.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Recordings will be made using AD8326 ADCs in a SPI like bus, that I'll
>>>>>>> drive using bit-banging IOs. This way I'm able to read n Adcs at a time
>>>>>>> because I need data to be sampled at the exact same time for each
>>>>>>> sensor.
>>>>>>> Will use the PRU route because of precise timing needed.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> For now I'm experimenting on the freshly arrived BBB.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I played a bit on cross compiling Qt4, was fine without OpenGLES will
>>>>>>> try with it and might even try Qt5.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Where I need advices is about this:
>>>>>>> - which kernel and/or distribution (testing on debian for now ) to use
>>>>>>> in order to be able to use QtQuick, mean openGLES as I read ?
>>>>>>> - I use Robert miraculous scripts, but I'd like to strip down the
>>>>>>> distribution to almost bare, I'll be using just SSH and Qt qws for
>>>>>>> display.
>>>>>>> - which are the mandatory kernel drivers for the BBB board in order to
>>>>>>> have it running with LCD cape with openGL, SPI , I2c and GPIO available
>>>>>>> for Qt ?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I read a lot, but information is surprisingly fast outdated.
>>>>>>> I'm new to linux kernel. Even if I maintain some servers, I never had a
>>>>>>> look at the kernel building.
>>>>>>> I'm used to FreeBSD one as I have been building a few things around
>>>>>>> Geode processors and played a lot at shrinking system to fit on small CF
>>>>>>> cards. But that's another life :)
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Thanks for your help and guidelines.
>>>>>>> 
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