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Custom Kernel and Ångström Distribution Recipe (SPI/CAN bus Support)

I have already posted on how we can build a vanilla Angstrom distribution from source at this post: Building Angstrom for Beaglebone from Source. This post looks at how we can add SPI to the kernel and rebuild the Linux kernel and Angstrom distribution. The post isn’t specific to SPI, so it may be that you are looking to make […]

By |May 5th, 2013|Beaglebone, Blog|14 Comments

Building Ångström for Beaglebone from Source

The Ångström distribution is a Linux distribution for many embedded devices, the Beaglebone included. Here I am going to document the steps that I took in order to build a full distribution of Angstrom (easier to write without the unusual letters). I am working from the steps described at this site: http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/ but here I will document any difficulties and the times […]

By |April 23rd, 2013|Beaglebone, Blog|36 Comments

Building FFMPEG for Beaglebone from Source

For my USB Logitech C920 MPEG4 webcam I decided that I would try to build ffmpeg from source and see if it improved the streaming capability of the camera. Currently, the stream is halting after about 30 seconds and the data stream becomes frozen.

So, based on the steps at this link I downloaded the x264 source and built it. I had […]

By |April 15th, 2013|Beaglebone, Blog|9 Comments