HCL:BeagleBone Black

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BeagleBone Black

The BeagleBone Black is the new version of the BeagleBone.

Technical Data

TI AM335x SoC
- ARM Cortex-A8 CPU @ 1 GHz
- Imagination Technologies PowerVR SGX530 2D/3D GPU
- PRU-ICSS
  - 2 PRU microcontroller cores @ 200 MHz
512 MB DDR3 RAM
4 GB eMMC
HDMI
10/100 Mbit/s Ethernet
USB host port
USB peripheral port
µSD port
Serial port RS-232 (need additional cables)
5V Power socket

Writing a disk image to the SD card

Download the image you want (Leap is stable, Tumbleweed is rolling) from here:

Tumbleweed
JeOS image E20 image XFCE image LXQT image GNOME image KDE image X11 image

If the direct links above do not work for you, please check the general download directory for the images.

Leap-15.3
JeOS image E20 image XFCE image LXQT image GNOME image KDE image X11 image

If the direct links above do not work for you, please check the general download directory for the images.
As root extract the image onto your SD card (replace sdX with the device name of your SD card).
WARNING: all previous data on the SD card will be lost. Check first if the device you have selected is really your SD card!
```
 xzcat [image].raw.xz | dd bs=4M of=/dev/sdX iflag=fullblock oflag=direct; sync
```
Insert the SD card with the openSUSE image into your board.
Connect the board to your PC via serial port (optional, but helpful for debugging; USB-TTL serial cable needed).
Connect the board to your monitor (via DVI/HDMI, optional).
Power on the board.
Walk through the first boot steps.
Ethernet is configured to request an IP via DHCP, check your DHCP server for the board IP if used.
Have a lot of fun...

Default login is root:linux, works on serial console, via ssh, GUI.

Known issues

To boot from µSD card, you must press boot select switch button (near µSD slot) on power-on. See: Boot switch location. Otherwise, you will boot from internal eMMC.

Working with the PRU

The gnupru binutils/newlib/gcc toolchain project is packaged at home:a_faerber:pru.

A uio kernel driver is available:

modprobe uio_pruss