**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Sun Feb 28 02:59:57 2021 **** BEGIN LOGGING AT Sun Feb 28 05:02:04 2021 Feb 28 09:07:51 DarwinElf: it would indeed be useful to have one, but I'm not sure one exists Feb 28 09:08:42 the beaglebones are all very similar except for the BeagleBone AI, which is more related to the BeagleBoard-X15 even though it's in BeagleBone form factor Feb 28 09:09:53 and the BeagleBone Blue, which derives from integrating a beaglebone with the robotics cape, and doesn't have the normal expansion headers Feb 28 21:23:15 i'm not sure what the difference is between BeagleBoards & BeagleBones yet... Feb 28 21:50:42 one is a subset of the other!? ;D Feb 28 21:54:19 which one LoL? Feb 28 21:56:30 the beaglebone was presumably named so because it was a smaller, simpler, cheaper board compared to the original (omap3-based) beagleboards Feb 28 21:57:32 aha... Feb 28 21:58:11 what's the most powerful ARM BeagleBoard? And if there's a RISC one, what sort of OS could you run on it? FreeBSD/OpenBSD? Feb 28 21:59:02 do you mean RISC-V ? "RISC" is a term for a whole category of cpu architectures including ARM and PowerPC Feb 28 22:00:00 the RISC-V based BeagleV is in development, see beaglev.org Feb 28 22:00:20 all other boards use ARM-based SoCs from Texas Instruments Feb 28 22:02:15 i guess RISC-V then... Feb 28 22:04:19 the original beagleboard and the similar beagleboard-xM used omap3 mobile SoCs (specifically omap3530 and dm3730 respectively) Feb 28 22:04:58 the beaglebone family (with exception of the beaglebone-AI) uses the am3358 industrial SoC Feb 28 22:05:18 i'm not familiar with those yet... Feb 28 22:06:27 these all use an ARM Cortex-A8 as primary cpu Feb 28 22:11:51 the beagleboard-x15 and the beaglebone-ai use the enormous am5729 SoC (the broadmarket version of an automotive vision/infotainment SoC), with dual-core ARM Cortex-A15 along with a whole bunch of auxiliary cores including two DSPs and four "EVE" vision processors Feb 28 22:16:23 so to answer your earlier question, the beagleboard-x15 is definitely the most powerful beagleboard currently... the beaglebone-ai has the same SoC but crammed into the beaglebone form-factor, which has pros and cons Feb 28 22:16:46 x15 has more ram than ai, too Feb 28 22:17:10 (e.g. the bbai has a tendency to get rather hot while my bbx15 seems to have no problem keeping itself cool even without a heatsink) Feb 28 22:18:34 yeah the x15 has twice the ram and also twice the ram bandwidth (the bbai uses only one of the two memory channels), though the bbai has much bigger eMMC Feb 28 22:22:24 DarwinElf: also, the recommended images are debian linux based... other linux distros are not officially supported, never mind freebsd/openbsd, though I know it is possible to run openbsd on the beaglebone black, it has basic support for the AM335x Feb 28 22:23:29 I don't think anyone has worked on AM572x support for openbsd Feb 28 23:04:38 i wonder if I could run Slackware ARM on it, also... Feb 28 23:07:59 I'm sure you could run any distro you want if you have the knowledge and time required to get it working and solve any problems you run into Feb 28 23:08:34 i could install/configure it but not program it to run specifically on a BeagleBoard Feb 28 23:11:21 I could not recommend running a non-standard distro unless you're confident about your ability to troubleshoot problems with the bootloader, device trees, kernel configuration, etc Feb 28 23:11:36 *would not recommend Feb 28 23:18:19 bootloader and maybe kernel I could work on... not sure about device trees... **** ENDING LOGGING AT Mon Mar 01 02:59:57 2021