[ML-General] Fwd: BBB again

[Phillip Showers]

recieved.

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 1:16 AM, david <ainut at knology.net> wrote:

>  Not sure if this went out before.
>
>
> I promised some comments on Derek Molloy's new book about the BBB.  Ok,
> here ya go.
>
> It's about 600 pages, listed at $35 on the cover and it's $25 from
> Amazon.  It is an awesome work!  I've got a couple dozen dog=eared pages
> for things to dig deeper into.  :)
>
> The first 100 pages or so are a good (brief) intro into Linux/UNIX in
> general so can be skipped over unless you want a review of the really basic
> stuff.
>
> Then the fun begins.  There is even a chapter on electrical/electronic
> interfacing to the BBB to get stuff done and he goes into which components
> (resistors, transistors, etc.)  to use, when, and why.  There is an
> adequate section on the device tree, how to boot from the SD card instead
> of the onboard flash, using a desktop for comms/control along with
> virtualization.  Also, some discussion of IDE's but Qt is -really- glossed
> over even though he has a 45 minute video on YouTube about it.  I wish
> there was a lot more meat to the Qt topic, but sadly, no.
>
> There is a pretty good section about using the BBB as a stand-alone web
> server, especially for passing it's sensor data to the world.
>
> There is discussion about using C and C++ programming with it, with a
> brief intro into Posix Threads if you need "concurrent" subtasks all under
> one program's control.
>
> There is a nice chapter on using the two onboard RISC processors and how
> to program them.  They can run independently of and communicate with tasks
> running in Linux on the main processor and he explains how to use shared
> memory for that, along with a bit of discussion of using semaphores.  This
> is the slickest and briefest discussion
>
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