Great work Branden. Can you post the md5sum?
Thanks. Tom On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 12:53:01 AM UTC-4, Branden Hall wrote: > > Ok, until I get the instructions fully baked, here's a download of a disk > image of my Ubuntu setup for the BeagleBone with userland SPI working. > > > http://waxpraxis.tumblr.com/post/19277633509/ubuntu-on-the-beaglebone-with-userland-spi > > Please feel free to hit me up if you have any questions. As time permits > I'll be writing up my full process for rolling this beastie by hand. > > - Branden > > On Mar 13, 2012, at 5:51 PM, bkgable wrote: > > I have been waiting to play with the Beaglebone more until the > userland SPI was working. > > Is there an easy step-by-step procedure to get SPI to work on at least > one distribution? > > Thanks for your effort. > > On Mar 13, 12:55 pm, Branden Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey folks - I sent this out yesterday, but I never saw it show up on > > the list. My apologies if this is a re-post. > > > After mucking about with it for entirely too long (6+ unsuccessful > > kernel compiles will wear you down!) I was just able to get a version > > of Ubuntu working on the BeagleBone that supports user land SPI. > > > The way I was able to do it was to read, re-read, and re-re-read Brian > > Hensley's tutorial on making SPI work on the BeagleBoard xM > > (http://www.brianhensley.net/2012/02/spi-working-on-beagleboard-xm-rev...) > > and then figure out how to translate that to the bone. (Thanks so much > > Brian!) > > > Then I tried to apply Craig Berscheidt's BeagleBone SPI patch > > (http://groups.google.com/group/beagleboard/browse_thread/thread/776a4...) > > but it wouldn't cleanly apply to the 3.2 source so I had to roll a new > > patch with the same changes. (Thank you Craig!) > > > As time permits I want to write a tutorial up on how to do all of > > this, but I also know that over the last few months I've seen a number > > of people request userland SPI access and would like to share my > > result sooner rather than later. > > > I was thinking of just putting an image file online somewhere along > > with instructions on how to install it. However, this is the first > > time I've ever done anything like this (and the first time I've > > compiled a kernel since the late 90s!) so I want to make sure that > > sharing in this manner is kosher. I know there are a number of > > inexperienced BeagleBone users like myself who are faunching at the > > bit to play with SPI and I would love to help them get up and running. > > > Thanks! (And another BIG thank you to Brian and Craig - you guys saved > > my project!) > > > - Branden > > > -- > To join: http://beagleboard.org/discuss > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to: > [email protected] <javascript:> > Frequently asked questions: http://beagleboard.org/faq > > > -- 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/groups/opt_out.
