Mark, I wish more tutorials looked like this. I should have started with congratulations on a great job. Thanks for considering my suggestions.
Best, Jim On Fri, Aug 28, 2020, 5:33 PM Mark A. Yoder <mark.a.yo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jim: > Thanks for the feedback. I like your suggestions. Responses below: > > On Thursday, August 27, 2020 at 2:17:24 PM UTC-4 jimf...@gmail.com wrote: > >> Hi Mark, >> >> Nice tutorial. Wish I'd had that quite some time ago, I had to pull all >> those pieces together myself. >> >> From having read a bunch of posts here, I have a few suggestions for your >> consideration. >> >> 1. User needs to be in the gpio group. This isn't mentioned. >> > *The debian image has user debian in the gpio group by default. Though > there are other use cases, I want to keep this focused on my students.* > *They are fighting too many alligators for me to add the group alligator.* > >> 2. People often ignore parts of instructions. If your prompt included the >> current directory name, it would be slightly more obvious where each >> command is run. >> > *Good suggestion. To keep the clutter down I just converted all paths to > absolute. Does that work?* > >> 3. It would be AMAZING if tutorials such as these included a description >> of what version of code this was developed/tested on. You could either >> mention the RCN release number or the kernel build, but it would be so >> great if this were a standard thing to mention. Consider how much things >> have changed with device trees over the past five (?) years. There's tons >> of now-wrong notes on how to do things. (I know you mention a kernel in the >> compilation section, I guess it would be nice to spell this out up top, >> i.e. "This tutorial is applicable to Beaglebone release xxx"). >> > *Great idea. Wiki pages age so quickly. I've added a footnote that > displays the output of uname and cat /etc/dogtag. What do you think?* > (https://elinux.org/EBC_Exercise_17_Switching_a_GPIO_to_an_LED) > >> 4. Not sure this comment is welcome, but a top level Tutorials page >> containing all the EBC## tutorials would be cool. I found the others by >> clicking on your ECE497 link, but that isn't exactly obvious (to me). Those >> look like some great materials that I hadn't come across before, for some >> reason. >> > *Another good idea, but... I'm sticking with using the Category to > collect all my pages. I hope my titles are descriptive enough that I can > remember what's in them.* > > Thanks again for the feedback. > > --Mark > > >> Best, >> >> Jim >> >> On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 10:23 PM Mark A. Yoder <mark.a...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Beagler's: >>> I just wrote up some notes on how to edit the device tree to change a >>> GPIO into an LED. >>> >>> Switching_a_GPIO_to_an_LED >>> <https://elinux.org/EBC_Exercise_17_Switching_a_GPIO_to_an_LED> >>> >>> It's are rather involved process that requires understanding some deeper >>> magic. >>> >>> Let me know what you think. >>> >>> --Mark >>> >>> -- >>> >> 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 beagleboard...@googlegroups.com. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/61317cde-fb07-4c98-bc56-c968e58e7a10n%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/61317cde-fb07-4c98-bc56-c968e58e7a10n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- > 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 beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/25d5f747-227b-4e2a-b988-f86e00311c0bn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/25d5f747-227b-4e2a-b988-f86e00311c0bn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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 beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CAGS%2B2h-sparB_%3DtN8DzKv2SXjwo2HQf%3DcdB78LqceBi1s3gtpw%40mail.gmail.com.
